GAMES : 1981 New Wave Synth Pop
Okay, if you don’t like Synth Pop, Games or The Games are nothing for you. Yet, this is kinda cool and it’s what was happening when New Wave got going in 1980. However The Games did not make it big, not even in Japan. But they’ve got a nice set of tunes that places them firmly in the Top 20 of the 2nd division.
The Games were from Wirral and the personnel was Steve Knott, Brendan Coyle and Colin Hughes. They released three 7”ers only: First Law Of Games b/w Childsplay on Games Records in 1980, and Dance This Way b/w Love Canal on Open Eye Records in 1982. Posthumously 4.0 b/w 10 was released on INDEX: Records in Germany in 2021. In 2013 an album with demos and other studio recordings had been released on Anna Logue Records in Germany.
The recordings on this tape date from 1981, they were sent to me by the band in 1981 on a cassette - something common then. The cassette packaging was lovingly designed, as it was practice in those days, too. And I stored the cassette well to put it to good use now, more than 40 years later.
Three of the tracks are studio recordings, the other six are live recordings, surprisingly of almost studio recording quality.
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If you want to listen to the music the following link must be inserted into your URL:
https://archive.org/details/games-unreleased
Um die Musik zu hören muss Du den folgenden Link in die Adresszeile Deines Browsers kopieren:
https://archive.org/details/games-unreleased
ENJOY!!
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