Steven Wilson Presents Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979¿89

by Steven Wilson, Vario

Overview

Curated by Porcupine Tree guitarist Steven Wilson, the four-disc compilation Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-89 tackles the entirety of the 1980s with the mission of exposing the strangest, most inventive, and most abstract sounds coming out of the United Kingdom in a decade where music could often feel sterile or homogenized. That's hardly the case with the 58 tracks Wilson presents here, all of which are miles away from the blandness of the charts and commercial trends of the '80s and focused more on post-punk, new wave, art rock, goth rock, synth pop, and all imaginable intersections thereof. Intrigue offers a fantastic primer for independent music happening at a time when bands like U2 or Tears for Fears were what most people considered edgy. The comp kicks off with an especially moody Wire track, and quickly follows with submissions from Public Image Limited, Magazine, Gang of Four, This Heat, and the like. Wilson includes updated mixes of his own making with tracks like XTC's "Complicated Game" and Robert Fripp and the League of Gentlemen's "Cognitive Dissonance." Intrigue makes space for many different shades of sound that grew out of post-punk, ranging from the haunted ska of the Specials' "Ghost Town" to Joy Division's slow-moving funeral march "The Eternal" to Kate Bush's theatrical Hounds of Love fever dream "Waking the Witch." There's nothing but highlights throughout the several hours of deep cuts and more familiar tracks gathered on Intrigue, and the entire collection flows well regardless of the various wild directions it goes in. If Wilson's aim was to showcase the excitement and unconventional thinking that existed in the shadows of banal mainstream sounds throughout the '80s, Intrigue accomplishes that goal and then some. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	02/10/2023
Label:	Demon Records
UPC:	5014797908376

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Steven Wilson   Primary Artist
Vario   Primary Artist
David Sylvian   Primary Artist
Gary Numan   Primary Artist
John Foxx   Primary Artist
Gang of Four   Primary Artist
Twelfth Night   Primary Artist
Japan   Primary Artist
Dead Can Dance   Primary Artist
Magazine   Primary Artist
Scott Walker   Primary Artist
Dif Juz   Primary Artist
Joy Division   Primary Artist
Propaganda   Primary Artist
New Musik   Primary Artist
New Order   Primary Artist
No-Man   Primary Artist
Public Image Ltd.   Primary Artist
Punishment of Luxury   Primary Artist
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark   Primary Artist
The Specials   Primary Artist
The Shamen   Primary Artist
Cardiacs   Primary Artist
The The   Primary Artist
Dalis Car   Primary Artist
The Stranglers   Primary Artist
23 Skidoo   Primary Artist
Momus   Primary Artist
This Heat   Primary Artist
Wire   Primary Artist
XTC   Primary Artist
Swell Maps   Primary Artist
Ultravox   Primary Artist
Section 25   Primary Artist
Peter Hammill   Primary Artist
Rupert Hine   Primary Artist
Kate Bush   Primary Artist
O Yuki Conjugate   Primary Artist
A Certain Ratio   Primary Artist
This Mortal Coil   Primary Artist
Thomas Dolby   Primary Artist
The Art of Noise   Primary Artist
Bill Nelson's Red Noise   Primary Artist
Robert Fripp & the League of Gentlemen   Primary Artist
Art Nouveau   Primary Artist
Perennial Divide   Primary Artist
Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake   Primary Artist
The Sisters of Mercy   Primary Artist
Tears for Fears   Primary Artist
Slab!   Primary Artist
The Associates   Primary Artist
The Sound   Primary Artist
Simple Minds   Primary Artist
In Camera   Primary Artist
Kitchens of Distinction   Primary Artist
Crispy Ambulance   Primary Artist
The Durutti Column   Primary Artist
The Cure   Primary Artist
Cocteau Twins   Primary Artist
Echo & the Bunnymen   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Tony Mansfield   Composer
Patrick Fitzgerald   Composer
Trevor Horn   Composer
Paul Humphreys   Composer
Steve Askew   Composer
Paul Morley   Composer
Stephen Morris   Composer
Andy McCluskey   Composer
Andrew Eldritch   Composer
Simon Raymonde   Composer
Andrew Hulme   Composer
Keith Levene   Composer
Alan Curtis   Composer
Ian Curtis   Composer
Billy Mackenzie   Composer
Ian McCulloch   Composer
Lol Tolhurst   Composer
Jack Dangers   Composer
Kevin Wilkinson   Composer
Jon Hassell   Composer
Elizabeth Fraser   Composer
Vini Reilly   Composer
David Sylvian   Composer
Gary Numan   Composer
Graham Lewis   Composer
John Foxx   Composer
Geoff Mann   Composer
Charles Hayward   Composer
Jean-Jacques Burnel   Composer
Hugo Burnham   Composer
John Lydon   Composer
Robert Fripp   Composer
Sam Mills   Composer
Robin Guthrie   Composer
Scott Walker   Composer
Roland Orzabal   Composer
Jonathan King   Composer
Peter Hook   Composer
Jerry Dammers   Composer
Jet Black   Composer
Lisa Gerrard   Composer
Matt Johnson   Composer
Simon Topping   Composer
Steven Wilson   Composer
Midge Ure   Composer
Mick Karn   Composer
Gillian Gilbert   Composer
Anne Dudley   Composer
Dave Formula   Composer
Alan Rankine   Composer
Dave Greenfield   Composer
Daniel Goodwin   Composer
Andrew Gill   Composer
Simon Gallup   Composer
Bernard Sumner   Composer
Bill Nelson   Composer
Barry Andrews   Composer
Nick Beggs   Composer
Howard Devoto   Composer
Hugh Cornwell   Composer
Sara Lee   Composer
Peter Murphy   Composer
Peter Hammill   Composer
Rupert Hine   Composer
Kate Bush   Composer
Martin Moscrop   Composer
Thomas Dolby   Composer
Adrian Borland   Composer
Tim Bowness   Composer
Brendan Perry   Composer
Robert Smith   Composer
Tim Smith   Composer
James Kerr   Composer
Carl Glover   Design,Photography
William Sergeant   Composer
Stephen Day   Composer
Neville Henry   Composer
Jez Strode   Composer
David Steiner   Composer
Colin Angus   Composer
Brian Bond   Composer
Gary Bromley   Composer
Paul Wiggin   Composer
Chris Cross   Composer
Jim Walker   Composer
Nick Currie   Composer
Paul Jarvis   Composer
Gary Madeley   Composer
Jeannette Obstoj   Composer
Brian McGee   Composer
Dave Curtis   Composer
Edgar Allan Poe   Composer
Charles Bullen   Composer
Clive Mitten   Composer
J.J. Jeczalik   Composer
Derek Forbes   Composer
Mick MacNeil   Composer
Charlie Burchill   Composer
Brian Devoil   Composer
Pete Moore   Composer
Peter Terrell   Composer
Alex Turnbull   Composer
Robert Davenport   Composer
Alan Hempsall   Composer
Keith Darbyshire   Composer
Donald Johnson   Composer
David Allen   Composer
Larry Cassidy   Composer
James Nice   Liner Notes
Stuart Neale   Composer
Andy Revell   Composer
Richard Thomas   Composer
Gareth Williams   Composer
Will Sinnott   Composer
Clare Langan   Composer
William Currie   Composer
Hajo Mueller   Portrait Photography
John Wardle   Composer
Jez Kerr   Composer
Phil Kinrade   Mastering
Andrew Partridge   Composer
Warren Reginald Cann   Composer
Dan Walton   Project Manager
David Swales   Composer
Dave Morris   Composer
Leslie Thomas Pattinson   Composer
Peter Lois Vincent De Freitas   Composer
Jeff Wilmott   Composer
Roger Horberry   Composer
Tim Horberry   Composer
Clare Elliott   Composer
Kevin Godfrey   Composer
Richard Scaldwell   Composer
Jimmy Giro   Composer
Andrew Gary   Composer
Richard Battersby   Composer