Discreet Campaigns / Various (1985)
Label: Rorschach Testing Product (UK)
Catalog#: ROR 1
Format: Cassette
Credits: Artwork - Mick Lowe, Typesetting - Beds Graphics
Engineer - Ian Trundle, Jo King
Photography - Bunger, Chris Craske, Jeff Veitch, John Walters, Mick Lowe, Richard Mann
Notes: Engineered at Sin City, Nottingham
Presented in clear vinyl pouch with 20 page booklet profiling each artist.
Side A
01. The First Thing You Ever Said To Me (Edit) / John Marc Gowans
02. Stay / Eyeless In Gaza
03. This Heat / The Flamingos
04. Torn Calendar / The Wake
05. The Mentor Will Rise / Corpaelia
06. Pale Clouded White / Cocteau Twins
07. What's The World (Live) / James
08. James Is / The Decemberists
09. Bullet / Furniture
10. Echo Wreck / Dif Juz
11. The Faintest Sound / Kevin Mcdermott
Side B
01. Shiver / Chris & Cosey
02. End Users / Actors And Famous People
03. And With Disease (Live) /Resistance
04. Return To Activity / John Marc Gowans
05. Weakness And Fever / The Durutti Column
06. Optimism (Electro Version) /Life
07. Everybody Has Bad Dreams / Spiral Staircase
08. Preface And Hostilities / Ganzheit
09. Sunrise (Instrumental Rough Mix) /New Order
*Side A: 04 and Side B: 07 was damaged.
美麗なパッケージを施されたNew WaveあるいはPost Punkなコンピレーション。
聴きすぎたのか、テープが切れて補修した事で両面各1曲が損傷しているのが申し訳ない。
おまけにテープのねじれで、全体的に歪んでいる事も合わせて申し訳ない。
しかし、微妙に豪華なこの面子。何曲かはCD化済みだが、James、New Orderは未発表。その他コレでしか知らないアーティストのイイ曲もあったりする。結構なボリュームなので、AB面を分けてアップ。