The 1986 Listening Post - Red Box - The Circle and the Square

Red Box - The Circle and the Square

#71/1238 LISTENING POST ADMIN DISCOVERY

1986 Housekeeping

Red Box

The Circle and the Square

Genre: World Rock

4.75 out of 5

Highlights:

For America

Billy’s Lane

Bantu

Lean on Me (Ah-li-ayo)

Walk Walk

Here we go. This is the familiar tones of 80s rock. Big sounds, global concerns, world music influenced, somewhere in the Venn Diagram of Tears for Fears, Dexys, U2 and even Genesis and Midge Ure and Bowie and XTC and…is there a touch of…Philip Glass in here? It’s all so very “important” but it works. 

If I was managing them, I’d be getting Imagine Dragons to cover something like “Billy’s Lane”. Give them a connection to the older generation and, subsequently, just a wee bit more longevity (or commercial sell out cred). Or is that just an opportunity for me to drop a contemporary name so I can sound like I know what the fuck’s going on in music today? 

This is a terrific relic from this decade. 

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