Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame (raw original LP version)

...from the album "Dream Into Action" (1985). Recorded from the vinyl LP using Numark PT01.

This was the version before the 7" single was released with additional percussions and background vocals by Phil Collins and Afrodiziak.

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Music

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• pop
• rock
• howard
• jones
• no
• one
• is
• to
• blame
• new
• wave

[hauntedwriter]

This is the best version! Always makes me cry....a lot of memories attached to it for me. *sigh*

[redcomusic]

Me, too :)

[Tacomadome24]

Like 80's pop or not, this is a timeless song. Wonder who will cover it in ten years and make it a hit again?

[MrSnottwat]

Thank you for this post. Really takes me back to another time,and friends long gone. Thanks again. \m/

[jhchouston]

@hindsighter You said it best :)

[cubanblue4et]

man i love this song too only song that ever woke me up out of a DEAD SLEEP!!!

[hindsighter]

@timonraphael I've just found out that the drum sounds actually come from Led Zepellin's version of When the Levee Breaks, so it's Phil Collins vs John Bonham. The latter wins.

[jaxxommckaine]

wheres the love button!!!!

[hindsighter]

@timonraphael There's no accounting for taste. These analogue electronic drums sound much better and more powerful, if you ask me. What sounds like a cheap demo to you is an unadorned straightforward song to me, as opposed to the more commercial Collins version full of cheap unnecessary sounds and effects here and there that spoiled the beauty of the original.

[timonraphael]

@colin5577 this "original" version sounds like a cheap home-demo besides the version with phil collins' powerful drums and backing vocals...! I guess howard would say the same, ask him!

[Hot80s]

@redcomusic i'm a big boy but me three. This version is a Great One.