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The Correct Use Of Soap (Import) (CD)

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Magazine Artist Snapshot:

Former Buzzcocks founder Howard Devoto left the seminal punk band after the release of its 1977 SPIRAL SCRATCH EP to form Magazine. Harnessing the energy and artistic spirit of punk and channeling it into darker and more elaborate productions (featuring synthesizers and dance rhythms), Magazine provided a key link between the more rudimentary stylings of punk's first flourishing and the later U.K. acts that would come to be known as New Wave.

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DISC 1 for The Correct Use Of Soap (Import) (CD) Album By Magazine (Artist)
1   Because You're Frightened  
2   Model Worker  
3   I'm A Party  
4   You Never Knew Me  
5   Philadelphia  
6   I Want To Burn Again  
7   Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)  
8   Sweetheart Contract  
9   Stuck  
10   Song From Under The Floorboards, A  
 

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Title Note

Magazine: Howard Devoto (vocals); John McGeoch (guitar, background vocals); Dave Formula (keyboards); Barry Adamson (bass, background vocals); John Doyle (drums, percussion); Laura Teresa (background vocals).

Abandoning the icy soundscapes of SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT, 1980's THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP revisits the itchy post-punk pop territory of Magazine's debut REAL LIFE. This time around, Magazine comes armed with its strongest set of songs and a tighter, funkier group sound. The Manchester quintet continues to push the envelope in directions that punk's narrow confines would never allow, and others took note.

Barry Adamson lays down a snaky, pulsating bass, locked into John Doyle's crisp drum patterns, while Dave Formula's flamboyant keyboard textures and John McGeoch's incisive guitar play seem destined for bigger things. Against this backdrop, Howard Devoto's half spoken, half-sneered oratory, replete with Beckett and Dostoyevsky references, exudes authority. "You Never Knew Me" and "Sweetheart Contract" are the kind of barbed, distrustful intellectual love songs at which he had become so adept. On "A Song From Under the Floorboards," Devoto is "an insect." The cover of Sly Stone's equally troubled "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" is perfectly at home in such company. Like Wire and Joy Division, Magazine isn't afraid to encourage expansion of its generation's depth and perspective.

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