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jyotimishra.bsky.social
Oh great - yet another retro #indie comp where *every single artist* is white.

No #MonochromeSet or #ARKane or #Sandkings or #Lush or #Cornershop?

The #whitewashing of a scene I grew up and played in never fails to amaze me.

#IndieMusic #IndiePop #Racism #TheWhitestSceneAlive
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
angelo-af.bsky.social
thanks to @llebkered.bsky.social about 30 years ago, I'm enjoying. Deeply grateful. #postpunk #monochromeset
Eine Symphonie des Grauens
The Monochrome Set · Compendium 75-95 · Song · 1979
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November 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
chrisl7000.bsky.social
April 1979: Adrian Thrills meets The Monochrome Set. New Musical Express, 7 April 1979.
#TheMonochromeSet @themonochromeset.bsky.social @robertrotifer.bsky.social #MonochromeSet
May 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
chrisl7000.bsky.social
44 years ago today, Sounds (21 August 1982) reviewed "Eligible Bachelors" by The Monochrome Set and "Hook Line & Sinker" by Bunny Wailer.
#TheMonochromeSet #MonochromeSet #BunnyWailer @themonochromeset.bsky.social @robertrotifer.bsky.social
August 21, 2026 at 8:25 AM
mvilenius.bsky.social
Listening through my record collection, day 258.

The Others aka 22PP - Monochromeset, 2006. An album of covers by the 22 Pistepirkko.

#vinylcollection #indierock #indievinyl #NowPlaying
February 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
clunkie.bsky.social
.......25/5 Sophisticated #MonochromeSet #Bid www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugYE...
Boom Boom
YouTube video by The Monochrome Set - Topic
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May 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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#PaulHeaton & #JacquiAbbott – Manchester Calling £15.35 amzn.to/4h5tn22

#DanielleDax - Dark Adapted Eye £16.62 amzn.to/4vpBavd

#MonochromeSet - Cosmonaut £16.66 amzn.to/4fch3us

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July 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
vinylitis.bsky.social
The Monochrome Set - Independent Singles Collection, 25 track double vinyl LP

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#monochromeset #vinyl #vinylrecords

Available new on amazon from £19.89
Independent Singles Collection
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January 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
vinylitis.bsky.social
Another slice of post-punk brilliance ...

The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique, vinyl LP

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Strange Boutique
"I read a bit of Restoration poetry and listen to Leadbelly, and it comes out like that" (Bid, The Monochrome Set). The casual prose of pop history is full of backhanded compliments, and The Monochrome Set have received a few, ranging from "should have been massive" to "influential", numbering the likes of Morrissey and Marr, Blur's Graham Coxon and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos among their celebrity admirers. Released in February 1980, their first album Strange Boutique, featuring the band's percussion-heavy theme song (predating Adam & The Ants's "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by months) and the Johnny Marr-anticipating "Love Goes Down The Drain", caught the Monochrome Set in full flight, quickly followed by the equally taut, funny and adventurously dynamic Love Zombies.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
sidofantichrisis.bsky.social
There is probably no other band to which the attributes ‘elegant’, ‘charming’ and ‘witty’ apply more aptly than The Monochrome Set, formed in London in 1978. Although they never achieved great success, they went on to influence many bands that followed them.

#forgottensongs
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The Devil Rides Out
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April 20, 2026 at 1:22 AM
georgiosmasman.bsky.social
Love Zombies expands the cabaret stylings while limiting the bizarre material, producing a smoother & more accessible sound. Stronger melodies & lyrics that take sharp, light jabs at emotional traps & social mores.
#OnThisDay October 17, 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣0️⃣ the #MonochromeSet released 'Love Zombies.'
October 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
chrisl7000.bsky.social
44 years ago today, the New Musical Express (28 August 1982) reviewed the Monochrome Set album "Eligible Bachelors".
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"In that precarious area between ho-ho, and ho-hum, there stands The Monochrome Set. As coolly humorous as ever, still knocking out witty ditties for whistling milkmen, the Set nonetheless seem limited: a gag in search of a punchline. Excepting the musical proficiency they've picked up along the way, they sound little altered from the band which made its debut LP in 1980. That modest appeal is intact, to be sure, but it's never been built on: they remain pleasant but fatally inessential; likeable under-achievers. There may indeed by a place for The Monochrome Set within the rich pageant of this, our island's story, but what a small, cosy little place it is. They should be after much, much more. For those uninitiated, the formula runs something like... One voice, cultured, smoothly English (singer Bid, the sort who sounds like he uses a cigarette holder), some drums, bouncy and brisk, and guitars, several and twangy. They're a balladeering beat group with a clutch of cute tunes to croon, satire in their hearts and a smirk on their collective lip. The group's name suggests not so much a television, as some obscure clique of '60s swingers, cocking a snooty snook at the class sytem: "My old man's a viscount," goes one song, "and he wears a viscount's crown..." The 11 numbers on 'Eligible Bachelors' are flip and catchy, always amusing, given to pun and parody, nudges and nostalgia. It's an attractive brand of whimsey, certainly. I only wonder if it's enough." (Paul Du Noyer)
August 28, 2026 at 10:59 AM
normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social
More of today! Discreet Brian, #SillyPillows , #ChristineOtt , #MonochromeSet #MarianneFaithfull #Blondie #BaltimoreRecordstore
November 29, 2024 at 10:51 PM