New Clear Days
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| New Clear Days | ||
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| Studio album by The Vapors | ||
| Released | 1980 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | New Wave | |
| Length | ??:?? | |
| Label | United Artists | |
| Producer(s) | Vic Coppersmith-Heaven | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Vapors chronology | ||
| New Clear Days (1980) |
Magnets (1981) |
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New Clear Days was The Vapors 1980 debut album containing the UK hit singles: Turning Japanese, which reached No. 3 in the chart in February 1980, and News At Ten (named after a well known ITV news programme), which got to No. 44 in July of that year.
The album-title was a pun on Nuclear Days, the album cover showing a rather grimy television screen displaying a TV weather forecast. Among the symbols for clouds is one centred over London which is, upon closer examination, a mushroom cloud. In addition, one of the temperature symbols has been replaced with one warning of radiation and the weatherman glows.
Apart from the nuclear theme, the Japanese theme is continued on Letter from Hiro, the last track, and News at Ten reflects a kind of post-modernist cynicism about televisual culture.
[edit] Track listing
- "Spring Collection"
- "Turning Japanese"
- "Cold War"
- "America"
- "Trains"
- "Bunkers"
- "News At Ten"
- "Somehow"
- "Sixty Second Interval"
- "Waiting For The Weekend"
- "Letter From Hiro"
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