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Hello hooligans! If you like these tracks, be sweet+tender and buy something by Ludus. Pretty much everything they ever released has been collected on just 3 CDs.
Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go. Morrissey played this on his pre-gig house mix during the You Are the Quarry tour. I don't remember if he later switched to Jobriath (?), or if perhaps Jobriath was played before the opening act, and then the mix I'm talking about was played between the opening act and Morrissey? Or maybe it went other way round? Anyway, Let Me Go Where My Pictures go is my favorite Ludus song by just a hair. It's available on the compilation entitled The Damage, for which Morrissey wrote the liner notes.
Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=9088813
The Escape Artist. This song closes their brilliant (in my opinion) 1982 album The Seduction. The Seduction was one of only a few records to be issued by New Hormones (Howard Devoto's label) on double 12". Very often The Escape Arist has been my favorite Ludus song. When I first heard it, it was my favorite for a long time. Today, it loses to Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go by just a hair. Still, I can't think of any song like The Escape Artist, and I've played it for everyone I've ever wanted to make music with. It's on The Damage as well as the combo reissue The Visit / The Seduction (The Visit, an EP, being Ludus' first release).
The Escape Artist -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=9088813
Breaking the Rules. Their most famous song, probably their poppiest and catchiest, a non-album single from 1983. One of their last recordings. I read someplace (can anyone verify this?) that when Morrissey finally got signed to Sanctuary, he called a radio station in Ireland (Dublin I think?) and requested they play Breaking the Rules because he'd just gotten a record deal. I don't know if they did play it? I don't know if they even had it? Does anyone know more about this event? Breaking the Rules is on The Damage. It's also on Morrissey's Under the Influence collection.
Breaking the Rules -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=7925354
You can buy the two EP/LP combination issues, as well as The Damage compilation (which includes some great live tracks as well as singles, b-sides, and album tracks), directly from the truly great little label that issued them, Les Temps Modernes. Les Temps Modernes, as many of you know, was founded by James Nice, who wrote a stellar Ludus biography that comes in the liner notes for reissues of The Visit / The Seduction and Pickpocket / Danger Came Smiling. (The Damage gets you liner notes by Moz, as I said above.) Should you be lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, Amoeba stocks all the Ludus reissues. (You can also special order them from Amazon, if, for some reason, you want to do that.)
Ludus CDs at Les Temps Modernes -> http://home01.wxs.nl/~frankbri/contact.html#ludus
Ludus biography by James Nice -> http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/ludushis.html
Ludus at Wiki (this page needs help, who knows more about Ludus?) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus
Have at it+enjoy, three of my favorite songs ever, all from one of Morrissey's favorite bands; if you DON'T like these tracks... well now you know!
love, math+
Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go. Morrissey played this on his pre-gig house mix during the You Are the Quarry tour. I don't remember if he later switched to Jobriath (?), or if perhaps Jobriath was played before the opening act, and then the mix I'm talking about was played between the opening act and Morrissey? Or maybe it went other way round? Anyway, Let Me Go Where My Pictures go is my favorite Ludus song by just a hair. It's available on the compilation entitled The Damage, for which Morrissey wrote the liner notes.
Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=9088813
The Escape Artist. This song closes their brilliant (in my opinion) 1982 album The Seduction. The Seduction was one of only a few records to be issued by New Hormones (Howard Devoto's label) on double 12". Very often The Escape Arist has been my favorite Ludus song. When I first heard it, it was my favorite for a long time. Today, it loses to Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go by just a hair. Still, I can't think of any song like The Escape Artist, and I've played it for everyone I've ever wanted to make music with. It's on The Damage as well as the combo reissue The Visit / The Seduction (The Visit, an EP, being Ludus' first release).
The Escape Artist -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=9088813
Breaking the Rules. Their most famous song, probably their poppiest and catchiest, a non-album single from 1983. One of their last recordings. I read someplace (can anyone verify this?) that when Morrissey finally got signed to Sanctuary, he called a radio station in Ireland (Dublin I think?) and requested they play Breaking the Rules because he'd just gotten a record deal. I don't know if they did play it? I don't know if they even had it? Does anyone know more about this event? Breaking the Rules is on The Damage. It's also on Morrissey's Under the Influence collection.
Breaking the Rules -> http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=7925354
You can buy the two EP/LP combination issues, as well as The Damage compilation (which includes some great live tracks as well as singles, b-sides, and album tracks), directly from the truly great little label that issued them, Les Temps Modernes. Les Temps Modernes, as many of you know, was founded by James Nice, who wrote a stellar Ludus biography that comes in the liner notes for reissues of The Visit / The Seduction and Pickpocket / Danger Came Smiling. (The Damage gets you liner notes by Moz, as I said above.) Should you be lucky enough to live in Los Angeles, Amoeba stocks all the Ludus reissues. (You can also special order them from Amazon, if, for some reason, you want to do that.)
Ludus CDs at Les Temps Modernes -> http://home01.wxs.nl/~frankbri/contact.html#ludus
Ludus biography by James Nice -> http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/ludushis.html
Ludus at Wiki (this page needs help, who knows more about Ludus?) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus
Have at it+enjoy, three of my favorite songs ever, all from one of Morrissey's favorite bands; if you DON'T like these tracks... well now you know!
love, math+
