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Real Life (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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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Real Life (Import) (CD) Album By Magazine (Artist)
1   Definitive Gaze  
2   My Tulpa  
3   Shot By Both Sides  
4   Recoil  
5   Burst  
6   Motorcade  
7   Great Beautician In The Sky, The  
8   Light Pours Out Of Me, The  
9   Parade  
 

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Q (p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]ynthesizers, saxophones and songs that dared to exceed the five-minute barrier."

Title Note

REAL LIFE, Magazine's 1978 debut, might be the first true post-punk album. Bandleader Howard Devoto had been the co-leader of Manchester's Buzzcocks, one of the first and most important U.K. punk bands, but he left shortly after the recording of their first EP, SPIRAL SCRATCH. Forming Magazine with guitarist John McGeoch, keyboardist Dave Formula and bassist Barry Adamson (later a noted soundtrack composer), Devoto married the manic energy of the Buzzcocks to a darker and more ambiguous lyrical and musical vision. REAL LIFE is undeniably bleak--"Motorcade" concerns the JFK assassination, and other titles include "Recoil" and "Burst"--but there's a certain black humor in tracks like "The Great Beautician in the Sky." Purists should note that the version of "Shot By Both Sides" here is a much different and somewhat inferior re-recording than the classic 7". That version is available on the singles compilation RAYS AND HAIL.

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