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Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition


Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby Surly » Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am

Coming Feb 4 from Cherry Red. I only know "CCCan't You See" from various compilations; never really knew the song or band back in the day. Is the album any good?

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/vicious-pink-vicious-pink-expanded-edition/
Track Listing:

1 CCCAN’T YOU SEE
2 SPOOKY
3 THE SPACESHIP IS OVER THERE
4 BLUE (LOVE MIX)
5 FETISH
6 TAKE ME NOW
7 ALWAYS HOPING
8 8:15 TO NOWHERE / GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
9 CCCAN’T YOU SEE (Exxxx-tended Re-mixxx)
10 CCCAN’T YOU SEE (French Extended Mix)
11 CCCAN’T YOU SEE (Re-mixxx)
12 CCCAN’T YOU SEE (7″ Version)
13 CCCAN’T YOU SEE (7″ DJ Mix / Master Mix)
14 FETISH (Extended Mix / Feteeesh)
15 TAKE ME NOW (Extended Version)
16 I CONFESS
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby omar » Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:43 am

This is a re-pressed cd. I have the original from a few years ago. Sounded a little too loud.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby Fred Taghon » Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:35 pm

It's a pretty good CD. "Cccan't You See" and "Take Me Now" are my favorites and most of the mixes of both are good. It's all pleasantly "outside the box", kind of synthpop punk here and there lol. I don't know where cherry red got their info that "Cccan't You See" was a top 30 pop hit in the USA unless they meant the Billboard Dance Club Play charts because they certainly never made an appearance on the Pop charts here.

As for sound quality, I think the CD sounds fine. Not a fan of
some of the overblown "brickwalling" out there (which I don't consider this CD to suffer from) but after nearly 20yrs of music mastering that's more compressed and, to varying degrees, considerably louder than the first 10yrs of the CD's existence, I have come to accept that this is the new normal and it doesn't bother me all that much.

If you're a fan of mid 80s synthpop, definitely at least check it out.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby postpunkmonk » Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:16 am

The REAL NEWS is that Minimal Wave is issuing "West View: 1981-1986;" a 2xLP with lots of unreleased Vicious Pink material on Valentine's Day, 2022!
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Vicious Pink: West View 81-86 – US – 2xLP [2022]

1. Cccan’t You See
2. My Private Tokyo 12″
3. Promises
4. 8:15 To Nowhere
5. Why Me
6. My Man + Me
7. Baby it’s Too Late
8. Blue [A World Of Blue]
9. Why Me [demo]
10. 8:15 to Nowhere [demo]
11. Fetish [demo]
12. In The Swim [demo]
13. Ask Me To Stay 12″
14. Face Hugger [21st Century 80s]
15. Eyes That Smile

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/west-view/
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby discoginfo » Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:09 am

And no digital for the 2-LP I assume
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby postpunkmonk » Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:16 am

I doubt it. I would prefer a CD but that's for Granddads.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby discoginfo » Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:14 am

Sure I would prefer a CD too. 90% of all sales off the new ABBA album were physical CDs. Only 10% digital. Go figure...
It's like CDs are not PC (politically correct) anymore.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby NuWavo80s » Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:03 pm

I can't wait!
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby Qbertqubes » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:11 am

No Cd? Are they kidding...is this 1981 again?
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby RevUp64 » Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:10 am

When the Minimal Wave release was first announced I read elsewhere (now can't recall where) that a digital release would also be available. They only have pre-orders up for the vinyl though. Here's hoping.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby Glenn » Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:27 pm

+1 for CDs!
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby yipyipcoyote » Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:44 am

postpunkmonk wrote:I doubt it. I would prefer a CD but that's for Granddads.


Yes but the Great Granddads want their LPs :D

Strange they include My Private Tokyo but not Je t'aime though.
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby Thefxc2 » Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:02 pm

It looks like Cherry Red is going to reissue their Vicious Pink CD in February:

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/vic ... d-edition/
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby RevUp64 » Mon Dec 20, 2021 11:57 am

RevUp64 wrote:When the Minimal Wave release was first announced I read elsewhere (now can't recall where) that a digital release would also be available. They only have pre-orders up for the vinyl though. Here's hoping.


Found it!

https://www.minimalwave.com/articles/ar ... t-view-2lp

"All orders made directly through our website or our Bandcamp site will be accompanied by a 5"x7” postcard of a previously unpublished photograph of Vicious Pink. The release will also be available digitally. Release date: February 14th, 2022."
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Re: Vicious Pink - Expanded Edition

Postby RevUp64 » Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:46 am

Preorder links for the new West View comp, both vinyl and digital, are up:

https://mw-viciouspink.bandcamp.com/album/west-view
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