Visage - Visa-Age - 1980

Wow Steve, you really are strange.

*FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT ONLY*

What is the openVAULT you ask? It's quite simple. Music that for lack of a better analogy, has been locked away from the general public. What has happened to the musical landscape is sickening. Far too many artists go largely unnoticed. We are here to change that. To drive the point home, this will not be some "best of" list aka Rolling Stone. No "Stairway", no "Walrus", just music that should be heard. Here at openVAULT you're going to be forced off the beaten path more often than not.

It'll be good for you, trust us.

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[Cougari72]

Best Visage album period!

[stars7803]

this album is great and I am 41.:) the 80's rule in terms of new wave music

[DerVampyrEngel]

@22ndWave I agree with that too :)

[McLarenMercedes]

@Gary190tube

True, but our parents (I actually discovered Visage in 1999, when I was in my teens and into discovering music I wasn't around to have heard when it was new) weren't bombarded by the music they didn't understand whenever they read the newspapers, turned on the tv, logged into the internet (had it existed back then).

Today artists are shamelessly marketed, on all forms of media 24/7. It's totally in your face. You can't even look away anymore or pretend it's not there.

[Gary190tube]

@McLarenMercedes what I find interesting is this: our parents didn't like our music because it was either too loud, too weird, too subversive, or just too original for them to get their heads round.

Nowadays we don't like our kid's music because it's either too boring, too bland, too middle-of-the-road or just too unoriginal. A complete reversal.

Every generation has their own tastes of course but I'd love to see some more creativity in the charts.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

One of the greatest 80s albums!

[matelot95]

a great family tree of Ultravox/Rich Kids/Gary Numan

[BEESAAVED]

Zero "dislikes." Absolutely no surprise. "Leave the trash of your life behind/No time to look back..."

[seanio100]

Still think Visage were great. My formative years in the early 80's spent listening to Visage and other great bands of the era. Album artwork by the way is great. Check out The Damned Don't Cry for another good track from their second album 'The Anvil'. Video is pretty good too

[22ndWave]

@broilet The 80s was a great period. I think guys are mainly embaressed about it because a lot of them wore makeup and guyliner in the 80s. Personally I think they looked better like that than today with backwards caps and jeans hanging down below the ass.

[McLarenMercedes]

@broilet

I agree.

The problem is that this is also the era in which a lot of "moderately talented" artists got a lot of play on MTV, and good videos sold not-so-good music. In the radio days, the song mattered, not how the artists themselves looked.

Fortunately a lot of kids today have been introduced to the innovative sounds of the early 80's they never knew existed (or even most people back then knew existed). Not on the radio or MTV? Then it doesn't exist. Sad but true.

Today it's hell.

[mistomen]

So faint in the distance, a speck on the map. A stamp on my passport- no time to look back!