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, released in February 1979 by record label

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. Band leader

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formed the group after the disbandment of

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in 1978. The record was recorded with producer and engineer

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, and marks a stylistic change for Nelson with its emphasis on

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s. His lyrics were inspired by

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and

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themes, which the musician tried to present in a humorous way. The album cover, featuring a bed-ridden robot, was photographed by

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Promoted by the singles "Furniture Music" and "Revolt Into Style", ''Sound-on-Sound'' reached number 33 on the

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and perplexed fans and music critics, with criticism centred on its 'artificial' sound.

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, Harvest's parent label, dropped Nelson in July 1979, rendering ''Sound-on-Sound'' their only album. It has been re-released by Harvest several times, including as a deluxe edition in 2012, and has been reappraised in a positive light by critics.

Background and recording

Since their 1972 inception,

was the leader and guitarist of eclectic rock band

, with whom he achieved some success, but later found himself restricted as the group's guitarist. With the band's final album, ''

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'' (1978), Nelson felt his ideas were marginalised compared to those of his bandmates, describing the record as disrupting the "transitional stage" he envisioned exploring between their previous album '' Modern Music'' (1976) and what became ''Sound-on-Sound''. As such, he dissolved Be-Bop Deluxe, feeling that beginning a new band was "the only way to do what I wanted to do." He had wished to dissolve the group before ''Drastic Plastic'' was recorded, but was persuaded by the band's management to continue. "Had I gotten my way," Nelson later said, "the ''Drastic Plastic'' material would have been recorded as the first Red Noise album. Instead, I adapted it for the final Be Bop album." Minimoog

By forming Bill Nelson's Red Noise, the musician again exerted creative control, paying the other members as

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s. He described the decision to form a band, rather than present himself as a solo musician with "an anonymous backing group", as a way of "hiding" and avoid being trapped "in a specific mould" if he achieved major success, saying: "This way I can change whatever cover I have to work under when my ideas alter or develop." Be-Bop Deluxe keyboardist

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joined Nelson in Red Noise, with the line-up completed by Bill's brother

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on saxophone and

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bassist Rick Ford. Drumming on ''Sound-on-Sound'' is split between Nelson and

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. The group recorded the album at

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, with producer and engineer

. Nelson had worked with Leckie since the first Be-Bop Deluxe album and found their partnership had developed into a "very give-and-take" fashion. Recording the album was a simpler process than any Be-Bop Deluxe record due to the prevalence of synthesizers, which Nelson felt were "much richer, tonally, than you realise," and only used

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to emphasise a specific sound, typically guitars. He elaborated: "With a synthesizer you press a switch and a sound is the direct result. With a guitar you pluck a string, which resonates above a pick-up, which then sends a signal along a wire to an amplifier, etc, etc, etc. It's a thinner sound altogether, which is why we can reproduce the album material so much more simply onstage using a lot of electronic instruments." The influence of

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on Nelson in the period, including groups like

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, led him to begin using a synthesizer guitar instead of an ordinary one, and processing snare drums through

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es, among other experimentation. The most prominent synths on the album are the

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and

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. Several songs on the album were remixed at Utopia Studios, London. Upon completion, Nelson felt unusually proud of the album, whereas with Be-Bop Deluxe albums he "couldn't bear to hear them for two months afterwards."

Composition

Nelson wrote the songs on ''Sound-on-Sound'' about "mundane, domestic things," citing "electronic appliances, factories...the paraphernalia of the times," and commenting that the album's instrumentation and arrangements reflect this. He said the "basic concept" behind the record was to explore all the

themes he "hinted at" with Be-Bop Deluxe, who had one song on each album with such themes. He drew inspiration from dystopian novels like

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's ''

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'',

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's ''

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'' and those by

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, as well as the imagery of

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's film ''

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'' (1927), but also felt the album had a "future-kitsch element", highlighting its "slight tongue-in-cheek quality that suggests humorous absurdity" and describing the album as exploring its sinister concepts playfully. According to critic Michael Waynick, the album's lyrics explore a wide palette of 20th century dystopian fantasies, ranging from "

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-style

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to state-sponsored

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," while writer Daryl Easlea describes the album as modernistic and "full of ''

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''-style portent." The music is characterised by its mechanical synthesizers, harsh guitars and frenzied rhythms. By emphasising synthesised instrumentation, and eschewing guitar solos, the record marks a firm departure from Be-Bop Deluxe, with Red Noise moving Nelson into a new wave direction, although a guitar solo does appear on "The Atom Age". Nelson wrote some songs to break from "the idea of a rhythm which starts at point A and goes to point B by a logical progression," instead building songs like "Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric)", "Stop/Go/Stop" and "Radar in My Heart" in a more abnormal fashion until the results were "a little bit angular; you can't just flow through them, yet their urgency creates its own kind of flow." The musician described the musical structure of "Art/Empire/Industry" as a jokey experiment "using a kind of

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' '

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' build-up but with modern instrumentation and techniques." He wrote "Stop/Go/Stop" – which features the line "To Central Information, from Intelligence Patrol/We all must follow orders, obey remote control" – in 1977 about his future-wife Jan while he was still married to his first wife. He married Jan by the recording of ''Sound-on-Sound'' and reflected on the song: "I'd been trying to tell Jan how I felt about her through my songs. They were born out of this heady love I was feeling for her."

Release and reception

The sleeve of ''Sound-on-Sound'' was designed by Japanese artist

, and depicts a bed-ridden robot constructed of both electronic and

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al components, chosen by Nelson to represent the album's 'mundane, domestic' themes. The back cover features an "Important Notice" writing that the album was "styled with today's hi-fi in mind," saying that the record should be "played at high volume in a room with no views other than those afforded by the use of subliminal image video apparatus." Nelson said he wrote the notice with his " tongue firmly in cheek". During the band's live performances, the group wore

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-style matching uniforms and used intricate lighting to "underline the point of the music," according to Nelson, who elaborated: "The songs are about the impending gloom of 1984, the austerity and the indoctrination. But I wanted to present the band as the perpetrators rather than the victims. The uniforms are part of that." After disbanding Be-Bop Deluxe, Nelson gave

– parent company of

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, whom the band were signed to – a choice between signing Red Noise or dropping him altogether. Although the label agreed to sign Red Noise, they were taken aback when hearing ''Sound-on-Sound''. Nelson elaborated: "A friend had dinner with EMI's head of A&R and told me he'd been asked, 'What's wrong with Bill? Why's he doing all this crazy music?'" Harvest released ''Sound-on-Sound'' on 16 February 1979, with the lead single "Furniture Music" being issued the same month. While the album jarred Nelson's fan base, it debuted and peaked at number 33 on the

, where it stayed for five weeks, while "Furniture Music" reached number 59 on the

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, with "Revolt Into Style" reaching number 69 in May. In the United States, where the album was released by

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, it was a commercial failure. ''Sound-on-Sound'' was released to polarising reviews from music critics, some of whom panned its intricate sound and compared it unfavourably with the work of

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and T. Rex. John Orme of ''

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'' derided the album for its "transparently contrived" music, which he equated with the ben-ridden robot on the album cover. Nelson was upset at the poor reception, telling interviewer Mark Williams that he felt reviewers chastised the album for sounding "artificial" when this was the intention of the album. He also rejected criticisms of the album being too dense and layered as "it was recorded so much more simply than the Be-bop albums." Following the album's disappointing sales in the US, Nelson was dropped by Capitol. In the UK, EMI dropped Nelson altogether in July 1979, alongside other groups like

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, as the label was slimming down its roster and looking for more commercially viable artists. By that point, Nelson had been working on a second Red Noise album, which was intended for an August 1979 release, but the dropping left the tapes with EMI. He reworked some of the material for his solo album ''Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam'' (1981); Nelson's prioritisation of solo material effectively ended Bill Nelson's Red Noise,

Retrospective assessment and legacy

''Sound-on-Sound'' went

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in 1980–81, but was re-released on vinyl by Cocteau Records in 1986, and remastered for CD release by Harvest in 1999. In 2012, Harvest released a deluxe edition of the album featuring live tracks, B-sides and

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s. Reviewing the vinyl reissue, '' Option'' said the album's "nervous, jagged

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meets

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at a new wave club sound (with some

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thrown in) sounds as much like

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as anything on MTV, and that is intended as a compliment." In a review of the 1999 reissue, Neil Mckay of '' Sunday Life'' wrote that the album's "pioneering electro/rock/pop" was "still sounding fresh." Reviewing the 2012 reissue, Daryl Easlea of ''

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'' called ''Sound-on-Sound'' "the intelligent, one-off a curio that split the crowd on release in 1979, but simply gets better with age." He hailed it for its "weird, futuristic music" which he felt was consistently surprising and speedy, concluding that the album "still sounds how you once imagined the future would be." "Furniture Music" was also credited by Easlea for predicting

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's hit single "

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" by three months, highlighting their "striking commonality". Michael Waynick of

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praised the album as "a brilliant collection of anti-romantic anthems" that "sounds like

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given the

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wall-of-sound treatment." He hailed its breathless pace and tuneful sound and wrote: "If Nelson did abandon Red Noise as a musical dead end, it was a fascinating cul-de-sac nonetheless." His colleague Steven McDonald called the record "a fluid document that demonstrated Nelson's ability to experiment." Mac Randall of ''

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'' described ''Sound-on-Sound'' as a "brilliant album that went nowhere." Ira Robbins of ''

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'' wrote that Nelson "attacked the future with gusto" with the album's mix of lyrical modernism and "subtly infiltrated synthetic sounds," but considered the songs to be "the weak link," which he felt were generally half-formed "despite some good ideas." In '' The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music'',

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described the record as an "agitated but confused" response to "

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and techno-rock forces." The music magazine ''

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'', established in 1995, was named after the album.

Track listing

All songs written by

Side one

# "Don't Touch Me, (I'm Electric)" – 1:50 # "For Young Moderns" – 4:24 # "Stop/Go/Stop" – 3:10 # "Furniture Music" – 3:31 # "Radar in My Heart" – 1:36 # "Stay Young" – 3:11

Side two

"Out of Touch" – 3:31 # "A Better Home in the Phantom Zone" – 4:26 # "Substitute Flesh" – 3:29 # "Atom Age" – 3:01 # "Art/Empire/Industry" – 2:45 # "Revolt into Style" – 3:23

2012 bonus tracks

"Wonder Toys That Last Forever" ("Furniture Music" B-side) # "Acquitted by Mirrors" ("Furniture Music" B-side) # "Stay Young" (live at Leicester

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, 8 March 1979) ("Revolt Into Style" B-side) # "Out of Touch" (live at Leicester De Montfort Hall, 8 March 1979) ("Revolt Into Style" B-side) # "Stay Young" (Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session (17 February 1979) # "Furniture Music" (Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session (17 February 1979) # "Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric)" (Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session (17 February 1979) # "Out of Touch" (Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session (17 February 1979)

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes of ''Sound-on-Sound'' ;Bill Nelson's Red Noise *Bill Nelson - vocals, guitar, drums, synthesizer, keyboards, bass, percussion, harmonica, vocoder *Rick Ford - bass *

- keyboards, synthesizer *

- drums, electronic drums * Ian Nelson - tenor and alto saxophone, Wurlitzer, string synthesizer ;Technical *

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- engineer *

- front cover photography

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1979 debut albums Albums produced by John Leckie Harvest Records albums Bill Nelson's Red Noise albums