Connections 2 : That Summer

That Summer was the Soundtrack not only to a movie that bombed but also to so many parties from 1979 to 1982.  It really did present some of the best new wave music in a package that meant you had 40 minutes of non stop party music. Whether it was that grimy Flat 9 in 1979 in my first year studying away from home (where the favourite songs were Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, I don't want to go to Chelsea, She's So Modern and Another Girl Another Planet dominated or later in the flat in Morris Terrance in Wellington where Jan and I met and the Because the Night and Whole Wide World were added to the party list.  I remember one particular party there where the dancing to Because the Night resulted in cracked, falling ceiling plaster and complaints from the flat below.

Over the years albums by almost all the artists on this album but particularly The Only Ones, Patti Smith, The Boomtown Rats, Costello, Ian Dury, Ramones, Wreckless Eric and Richard Hell.

If I was to make a list of my favourite 100 songs both Because the Night and Another Girl Another Planet would be there - so that is pretty impressive for an obscure soundtrack album to a movie no one ever saw!