The 1985 Listening Post - The Box - All the Time, All the Time, All the Time...

The Box - All the Time, All the Time, All the Time...

#58

1985 Housekeeping

The Box

All the Time, All the Time, All the Time…

Genre: SynthPop

4.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Remnants

With All This Cash

My Dreams of You

From the lush opening of “Remnants” this is different than the first Box record. But, if I was expecting more anthemic prog the left turn on track two, the angular, R&B tinged “With All This Cash” raised my eyebrows. 

It’s almost as though they decided to throw caution to the wind and make an album they thought could be their last. 

Narrator: “It wasn’t”.

This is a Canadian Band that at once contains that clean, polished, indescribable Canada sound while also seeming wholly…British and unlike anything I’ve heard from the Great White North. 

So much of this reminds me…Yes. And also, Genesis. And Eurythmics, but more interesting to me (“L’affaire Dumoutier (Say to Me)”).

I wonder if Bruno knows about this Montreal band. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-the-time-all-the-time-all-the-time/288327696

The 1984 Listening Post - The Box - The Box

The Box - The Box

#124

May 1984

The Box

The Box

2 out of 5

Highlights:

Must I Always Remember

Boy, I really didn’t follow music at all once the 80s hit. I had no idea that these guys existed.

Apparently an ex-Men Without Hats player started his own synth driven rock band out of Montreal and…it’s basically a lot of hat tipping to Peter Gabriel. 

Sounds like just about every synthetic band of the era. And when they tackle social issues, like “Live on TV” they are so annoying and, I feel, pedantic, and worse, uninteresting. I am not surprised that nothing came of The Box. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-box/288313981