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01. THE METRONOMES - A Living Person
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02. THE METRONOMES - The Ballad of the Metronome
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03. THE METRONOMES - Sex I
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04. THE METRONOMES - Commentator
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05. THE METRONOMES - The World Is My Oyster
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06. THE METRONOMES - Music for Lounges
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07. THE METRONOMES - Hey Coach
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08. THE METRONOMES - Sex II
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09. THE METRONOMES - Justification
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10. THE METRONOMES - Bad Timing
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01. THE METRONOMES - Soap
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02. THE METRONOMES - Messages from Home
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03. THE METRONOMES - Regular Guys
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04. THE METRONOMES - I Like to Waltz
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05. THE METRONOMES - 18 Creature
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06. THE METRONOMES - Deluxe Service Station
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07. THE METRONOMES - Losing Things
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08. THE METRONOMES - Moral Climates
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09. THE METRONOMES - Make It Plain
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10. THE METRONOMES - Same Phrase Again
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01. THE METRONOMES - Saturday Night
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02. THE METRONOMES - Sunday Morning
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03. THE METRONOMES - A Circuit Like Me (free)
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04. THE METRONOMES - Closed Circuit
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ARTIST
METRONOMES, THE
TITLE
The Ballads of the Metronomes
FORMAT
2LP +7"
LABEL
MANNEQUIN RECORDS
CATALOG #
MNQ 015LP
MNQ 015LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/17/2015
2010 release. Mannequin is more than enthusiastic to announce the re-release of both the LPs (
Multiple Choice
from 1980 and
Regular Guys
from 1985) plus the two single 7"s
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
and
A Circuit Like Me
from this legendary minimal synth band from Australia. The group was an integral part of the early electronic music scene in Australia and their releases have become collector's items in Europe, as they are mostly impossible to find.
The Metronomes
first appeared in Melbourne in 1979 and initial members were rock journo/synth player
Al Webb
, bass player
Andrew Picouleau
(
Secret Police
,
Sacred Cowboys
) and synth-pioneer
Ash Wednesday
, nowadays a live tour member of
Einstürzende Neubauten
. Al himself will admit later that Ash's ingenuity in creating something out of very little was the key to the Metronomes sounding as "produced" as they did. Their first 7'' single
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
came out in 1980, featuring a real metronome as rhythm section with instrumentals layered over, and the second
A Circuit Like Me/Closed Circuit
from 1980 featured more experimentation with drum machines and rhythm sections recorded using a borrowed Roland CR 78. It was the first time in their compositions that a vocal had been used, courtesy of a lady called
Talking Judy
. The first full-length
Multiple Choice
was recorded in the winter of 1980, using Roland Strings, a mini-Korg, some Arp synthesizers and a Boss Dr-55 -- a drum machine that was intensively used by many minimal synth bands during the '80s. The second album
Regular Guys
was released in 1985 and featured the next wave of synth toys like the Oberheim synth, Oberheim drum machine and Prophet 5. Once the programming was set up, the instrumental tracks were dumped via a PCM box direct to video tape, a pioneering process which almost entirely eliminated tape-hiss. Hand-numbered limited pressing of 500 copies. 2LP housed in a gatefold cover with rare pictures. Includes an insert with The Metronomes' band history by former member Al Webb.
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