Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Flash and the Pan - Headlines (1982)

Year: August 1982 (CD 2012)
Label: Repertoire Records (Germany), REP 5261
Style: Pop Rock, New Wave, Synthpop
Country: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Time: 51:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 354 Mb

Charts: CAN #47, SWE #13. Single "Waiting For A Train" (track 3) UK #7, Ireland #11, Belgium #15, Netherlands and New Zealand #26, Australia #66.
Headlines is the third album by Australian band Flash and the Pan, released in 1982. It includes the UK hit single "Waiting for a Train" which reached No. 7 in the charts in June 1983. At this time, Stevie Wright was officially a member of Flash and the Pan, making this version of the group close to an Easybeats revival; however, there is some doubt about how much Wright actually contributed to the recordings. He appears in the video to the song 'Where Were You' miming to George Young's voice.
Flash and the Pan were an Australian new wave musical group (essentially an ongoing studio project) formed in 1976 by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former members of the Easybeats; they were a production and songwriting team known as Vanda & Young. The group's first chart success was their 1976 debut single, "Hey, St. Peter", which reached number five in the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. The next single, "Down Among the Dead Men", peaked at number four in Australia in 1978; it was re-titled as "And the Band Played On" for international release.
Their eponymous debut album followed in December 1978, featuring the track "Walking in the Rain", originally the B-side to "Hey St. Peter". The song was later covered by Grace Jones, and released as the last single from her album Nightclubbing (May 1981). Her version was most successful in New Zealand, reaching number 34. Flash and the Pan's second album, Lights in the Night (early 1980), peaked at No. 1 on the Swedish Albums Chart. "Waiting for a Train", the lead single from their third album, Headlines, reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart in 1983.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_and_the_Pan)

01. Jetsetters Ball (04:50)
02. Don't Vote (02:50)
03. Waiting For A Train (04:44)
04. War Games (04:22)
05. Where Were You (03:23)
06. Love Is A Gun (03:31)
07. Up Against The Wall (05:18)
08. Psychos On The Street (03:57)
09. Hey Jimmy (03:16)
10. Phil The Creole (04:08)
11. Waiting For A Train (Radio Edit) (03:44)
12. Something About You (Nostalgic Mix 1983) (03:27)
13. Something About You (1990 Version) (03:27)

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