250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 18 The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique

 

I probably play Strange Boutique ince a year and that's clearly not enough. The Monochrome Set came to prominence in a glorioys age; The Cure, The Only Ones, Gang of Four, Echo & The Bunnymen, XTC, Joy Division, Steel Pulse. Days when bands invented wirlds that you could step into and walh the streets of miraculous cities.

It was a great time to be alive.To be young, To experience these cities on Radio One during the evenings with John Peel, Kid Jensen, Janice Long. Peter Powell. And at the weekends Annie Nightingale. John Waters. The Monochrome Set  had impossible charm. Exotic allure . You could listen to their songs and imagine it was the sixties and we would all live forever.