Listening to the Music the Machines Make - Inventing Electronic Pop 1978 to 1983: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983

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I discovered many new delights, even though I lived through this musical era and thought I had heard most of its influential tracks. We’ve only met in real life a couple of times so I’m looking forward to doing that at my launch in London and then again when we’re doing a joint event at the Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester the following week.

I read the book with headphones on so I could stream songs or artists that were mentioned that I was unfamiliar with.Before that happened I did toy with the idea of using The Things That Dreams Are Made Of as a backup title. That’s right, their Boys’ Brigade uniforms were probably still hanging in their wardrobes when they were off to do ‘Top Of The Pops’!

I’d invested so much of my myself and spent so much of my money in my teens in their music, that it wasn’t such a big jump to continuing that support of them 10-15-20 years later. But then, those pressures were happening within the bands themselves, THE HUMAN LEAGUE are a great example of this. A scroll of chronological, interwoven but often disparate stories featuring every purveyor of synthpop you can possibly think of. Setting out to chart a unique chapter in the history of popular music, Listening To The Music The Machines Make tells the story of a single generation of post-punk musicians, mavericks, visionaries and opportunists tinkering with primitive synthesisers in bedrooms, bedsits and basements around Britain, who assembled a potent cocktail of ideas and influences, took them apart, mixed them up, and reassembled them in entirely new ways to create a genuine golden age of British pop, and along the way creating some of the most enduring, iconic and influential records in pop history.Punk, glam rock, disco… you can hear all of those things in the sound of lots of the bands in this book. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Talk Talk (entered the charts in 1982), Aneka, Kim Wilde, Toyah, Hazel O'Connor, Grace Jones, Madonna, Blondie.

There were too many music reviews included, but I did learn that the British music press is absolutely ruthless. It’s the way that Evans weaves and knits these familiar names into such a rich and enormous tapestry that makes the book stand out. Using many sources the author details a month by month evolution of the popular British electronic Music scene starting in 1978.Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the enthralling, explosive story of electronic pop between 1978 and 1983—a true golden age of British music. By Janos Janurik) Temperatures are dropping, days are getting shorter and from now on the umbrella is a permanent accessory when you leave the house.