Fad Gadget — Under the Flag
Author: Mary Earle-Sigler | Posted: March 4th, 2007 | | Tags: 1982, Fad Gadget, gothic, industrial, music, new wave, postpunk, vinyl | 1 Comment »
- Artist: Fad Gadget
- Title: Under the Flag
- Year: 1982
- Format: Vinyl 12 in.
- Rating (1-10): 5
- Owner: Mary
- Acquired: 1983 – Olsson’s in DC
- Keeper: Yes
Tracy says it’s all about emotional attachments, and I have ’em to this LP. My logical grown-up self says, “This record screams early ’80s pretentious goth rock”, but my inner teenager says “I remember when I was in art school, the 9:30 Club played ‘Collapsing New People’ between band sets (a Fad Gadget song not on this LP), and I went to poetry readings.” Poetry readings? I must of had a lot of free time.
The music consists of keyboards, some neat sound effects, a drum machine, and topped with arty lyrics in a Bauhaus vocal style. Like the kids say (said) on American Bandstand, “it’s got a good beat and it’s easy to dance to”, or at least to brood to.
I bought this in Washington in early 1984 or late 1983 in that store on Dupont Circle, Olsson’s? I want to keep it. And why is it in the middle of The Fall records, and shouldn’t it be before Faith even? F-A-D. Oh Well. I also didn’t see the 12″ of Collapsing… If I had to choose between the two, I’d keep the 12″ over this. Oh, I’ll rate it a 5.
Baby, we’ve already posted the “Collapsing New People” 12 inch, and a 7 inch. It takes a village to keep the collection alphabetized. They are where they belong, and this one is about to join them.