This is another pop gem from the Factory Records back catalogue, a 1984 single from Life. Andy Robinson was New Order's guitar technician and would become their manager later on following the death of Rob Gretton. He put Life together with Graham Ellis and singer Rita Griffiths and put out four singles, two on Factory and two on Factory Benelux before calling it a day in 1986. Tell Me is bright and breezy synth-pop, fizzing with ideas, a minor gem in a back catalogue that is stuffed full of them, produced by Be Music. In this instance Be Music was Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert and it isn't a million miles from the sound they would make as the Other Two.
Tell Me
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One of the best things I purchased in the past year was the New Order Presents BE MUSIC cd box set. Released through Factory Benelux in 2017, it's packaged with the same classic understatement of Factory's cassette box series from the middle 80s and containing 3 CDs of the production and remix work of those that called themselves Be Music. It is still quite available on Amazon.
I've been looking at that- I've got an earlier Be Music compilation plus a factory 4cd boxset (and Palatine on vinyl now I come to think of it) so would lead to quite a lot of duplication. Not that that has stopped me before.
I certainly see your point SA. I have about 75 percent of the boxset elsewhere, but for the ease or locating some of these mazing tracks and the wonderful packaging and the remastering, it was a no brainer for me.
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