Put The Needle On The Record - Week #20

Put The Needle On The Record Week #20 Visage - Visage

For this weeks feature we go back to November 1980 and the self titled debut album by Visage.

This was the New Romantic super group, as it included Billy Currie and Midge Ure from Ultravox, John McGeoch and Dave Formula from Magazine and the Blitz duo Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. It is without doubt one of the very best albums of the 1980s era and an album I still play a lot to this day.

The 12 Inch extended mixes released off this album are fabulous, "Visage" is in my all time top 10 12 inch singles, superb drums and a brilliant track.

In all 4 singles were released from the album, "Tar" was their debut single, a song about smoking cigarettes! (which failed to chart in the UK), "Fade To Grey", a masterpiece, with a video that cost only £5,000 to make and is one of the first tracks that seems to feature in every 80s commpilation out there! (which reached number 8 in the UK Singles chart - it was number 1 in Switzerland and Germany), "Mind Of A Toy" (which reached number 13 in the UK Singles chart) and my favourite Visage track "Visage" (which reached number 21 in the UK Singles chart).

The album peaked at number 13 in the UK Album chart.

Track Listing

Visage
Blocks On Blocks
The Dancer
Tar
Fade To Grey
Malpaso Man
Mind Of A Toy
Moon Over Moscow
Visa-Age
The Steps

So if you have the album in your collection and have n't played it in a while, dig it out and give it a spin!