Friday, 8 January 2010

Pauline Murray & the Invisible Girls (1980)



There's certain artists who just grab you to the core, Pauline is one of these for me. I wish I was eloquent enough to verbalise just how much I love her voice, but i can't. If it was a person I'd marry it. So whilst having a trawl through my music I returned to this album, as I often do. It's a sublime piece of work.

Released in 1980 after Penetration died, Pauline and Robert Blamire (bass) formed the band with the assistance of a cast of thousands most notably: -

Martin Hannett - bass/keyboards/producer (s'fuck off over produced by Martin Hannett take 4)
John Maher - Drums (Buzzcocks)
Vini Reilly - Guitar (Durutti Column)
and more

How Dream Sequence wasn't a major hit for the band is a mystery. When you listen to the crap in the charts today and then listen to that song it's like chalk and cheese. Probably one of my favourite songs ever. Also if you've not heard the excellent 2008 Penetration 7'' 'Our World' pop across and give it a whirl here.

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16 comments:

  1. kennyhel779 January 2010 at 01:37:00 GMT

    Never listened to them before believe it or not. I am a big Penetration fan so I am quite interested in listening to this. Thanks for putting it up!
    Ken

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  2. Neil9 January 2010 at 12:12:00 GMT

    Let me know what you think Kenny, Dream Sequence is as close to perfection as I think you can get...imo.

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  3. kennyhel779 January 2010 at 16:06:00 GMT

    I will. I was looking at who played on this aside from Blamire and Murray, man you have Vinnie Riley from Durutti, MR. Maher from the Buzzcocks and Martin Hannet producer extrordinaire. Hope I like it!

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  4. Neil10 January 2010 at 04:35:00 GMT

    Yeah it's a great line up and, imo, makes for great music. Mr X is amazing, which is probaly why it and Dream Sequence were the singles off the album.

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  5. Anonymous10 January 2010 at 19:40:00 GMT

    For some reason track for is now corrupted. I made two attempts to download and both times all tracks unpacked but track 4 "Shoot You Down"

    Elvis

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  6. Neil10 January 2010 at 20:47:00 GMT

    Hmmmm, yep I see what you mean. I've upped track four as a stand alone file and will up the entire zip soon.

    Cheers for the heads up Elvis :)

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  7. Anonymous11 January 2010 at 06:46:00 GMT

    Thanks matey!

    Elvis

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  8. Anonymous21 July 2010 at 23:05:00 BST

    OHHH MAN! HANNETT TURNED THIS ONE INTO SOLID GOLD. MADE ME CRY! THANK YOU SO MUCHO FROM MEXICO. J ZAMORA.

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  9. Anonymous2 August 2010 at 03:13:00 BST

    ¡Increible!

    Many thanks from México.

    Hernán.

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  10. Neil15 August 2010 at 22:13:00 BST

    Glad you liked it Zamora/Hernan...solid gold it really is.

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  11. Anonymous24 June 2012 at 12:54:00 BST

    cheers had the vinyl many years ago, long gone

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  12. Neil26 June 2012 at 17:16:00 BST

    NP mate.

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  13. Anonymous16 February 2013 at 05:12:00 GMT

    Is there any way that this could get a re-upload?

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  14. Neil16 February 2013 at 08:58:00 GMT

    It's back up...enjoy.

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  15. Anonymous17 December 2013 at 21:00:00 GMT

    thanks so much for uploading this :)
    I bought the vinyl rrcord bsck in the day and have had 'shoot you down' stuck in my brain recently

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  16. Anonymous17 December 2013 at 21:05:00 GMT

    I bought this album back in the day. Thank you so much for the uplioad. Honestly I'd buy it if it was avalable

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