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.

Music

16 comments:

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

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  8. ¡Increible!

    Many thanks from México.

    Hernán.

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

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  10. cheers had the vinyl many years ago, long gone

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

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  12. 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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  13. 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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