One minute I'm thinking that The Smiths were the sound of the eighties when I remember the records of New Order. Especially Bizarre Love Triangle off the album Brotherhood which was like the tipping point for me. When like all the other bands I love I had to start buying up their past records. I loved songs like Temptation and Blue Monday before this but neither convinced me to search out the rest of their back catalogue. Bizarre made me wonder. It also got me buying up their amazing 12 inch remixes which I enjoyed more than the album versions.
I first heard the 12 inch of this in a record store on Malvern road in Prahran. Can't remember the name of the shop but it was the same place I picked up my record cases and later my cd cases. It could of been Central station before it moved. Also used to buy copies of the Face magazine there. My Mum used to send me copies from England until she moved back to Melbourne. So I had to get import copies somewhere. One day I went in and they were playing this. I couldn't concentrate on browsing. It sounded too good. I walked out the shop and up the street towards Brashes. 12 inch records were expensive especially from the UK. I wasn't completely flush at the time. I got to the intersection of Chapel and Malvern turned around and bought my first 12 inch record.
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