Be Bop Deluxe

Bio:

Member Since:

December 18, 2005

Members:

AXE VICTIM (1974)

• Axe Victom
• Love Is Swift Arrows
• Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus
• Third Floor Heaven
• Night Creatures
• Rocket Cathedrals (written and sung by Robert Bryan)
• Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
• Jets at Dawn
• No Trains to Heaven
• Darkness (L'Immoraliste)

CD Bonus Tracks: Piece of Mine (live), Mill Street Junction (live), Adventures In a Yorkshire Landscape (live),

London

FUTURAMA (1975)

• Stage Whispers
• Love With the Madman
• Maid in Heaven
• Sister Seagull
• Sound Track
• Music in Dreamland
• Jean Cocteau
• Between the Worlds
• Swan Song

  CD Bonus Tracks: Between the Worlds (single version), Maid in Heaven (live), Speed Of the Wind.

Vancouver

SUNBURST FINISH (1976)

• Fair Exchange
• Heavenly Homes
• Ships in the Night
• Crying to the Sky
• Sleep that Burns
• Beauty Secrets
• Life in the Air Age
• Like and Old Blues
• Crystal Gazing
• Blazing Apostles

CD Bonus Tracks: Shine, Speed of the Wind, Blue As a Jewel.

MODERN MUSIC (1976)

• Orphans of Babylon
• Twilight Capers
• Kiss of Light
• The Bird Charmers Destiny
• The Gold at the End of My Rainbow
• Bring Back the Spark
• Modern Music
• Dancing in the Moonlight (All Alone)
• Honeymoon on Mars
• Lost in the Neon World
• Dance of the Uncle Sam Humanoids
• Modern Music (reprise)
• Down on Terminal Street
• Make the Music Magic

CD Bonus Tracks: Futurist Manifesto, Quest For the Harvest Of the Stars, Autosexual.

DRASTIC PLASTIC (1978)

• Electrical Language
• New Precision
• New Mysteries
• Surreal Estate
• Love in Flames
• Panic in the World
• Dangerous Stranger
• Superenigmatix (lethal appliances...)
• Visions of Endless Hopes
• Possession
• Islands of the Dead

CD Bonus Tracks: Blimps, Lovers Are Mortal, Lights.

LIVE IN THE AIR AGE (1977)

• Life In the Air Age
• Ships In the Night
• Piece of Mine
• Fair Exchange
• Mill Street Junction
• Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
• Blazing Apostles
• Shine
• Sister Seagull
• Maid in Heaven

RADIOLAND - BBC Radio One Live In Concert (1994)

• Life in the Air Age
• Sister Seagull
• Third Floor Heaven
• Blazing Apostles
• Maid in Heaven
• Kiss of Light
• Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
• Fair Exchange
• Ships in the Night
• Modern Music
• Dancing in the Moonlight
• Honeymoon on Mars
• Lost in the Neon World
• New Precision
• Superenigmatix
• Possession
• Dangerous Stranger
• Island of the Dead
• Panic in the World

OTHER STUFF

1. Tremulous Antenna (2002)
2. The Best Of and the Rest Of (1978)
3. Singles A's & B's (1981)
4. Bop To the Red Noise (1986) (mixture of BBD and Red Noise material)
5. Raiding the Divine Archive (1987)
6. Air Age Anthology (1997) (double CD)
7. Very Best Of (1998)
8. Tramcar to Tomorrow (1998)
9. Postcards From the Future (2002)

SOLO MATERIAL

1. Bill Nelson, Northern Dream (1971).
2. Bill Nelson, Luminous (1991).

Influences:

Campbell American Guitars, Carlsbro Amplifiers, Gus Guitars, Gretsch Guitars, Line 6, Patrick Eggle Guitars, Bill Frisell, Chet Atkins, Derek Bailey, Duane Eddy, Joe Pass, Les Paul, The Shadows, Jean Cocteau, Orson Welles, Harry Smith, Harry Partch, Austin Osman Spare, Frank Olinsky, Filmfax magazine, Frieze magazine, Guitar Player magazine, Juxtapoz magazine, Modern Painters magazine, Sound On Sound Magazine, The Wire magazine, Tricycle Magazine, Dan Dare, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers , Nudies Rodeo Tailor.

Sounds Like:

70's Psychedelic Sci-fi Rock!

Record Label:

Astralwerks