New Clear Days

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New Clear Days
Studio album by The Vapors
Released	1980
Recorded	1979-1980
Genre	New Wave
Length	40:53
Label	United Artists
Producer	Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
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The Vapors chronology
New Clear Days (1980) Magnets (1981)

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 went to No. 45 in July of that year.

The title was a pun on Nuclear Daze, 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.

Notable numbers include the song "Sixty Second Interval" which is concerned with impending nuclear apocalypse, but also apears to allude to the unofficial truces of the Great War, "Letter from Hiro", the album's lengthy finale which continues the Japanese theme of their hit single, and "News at Ten", a cynical post-modern examination of the generation gap between a father and son. The track "Waiting For The Weekend" was re-recorded for single release but failed to chart.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Spring Collection"
2. "Turning Japanese"
3. "Cold War"
4. "America"
5. "Trains"
6. "Bunkers"
7. "News at Ten"
8. "Somehow"
9. "Sixty Second Interval"
10. "Waiting for the Weekend"
11. "Letter from Hiro"

[edit] Track Listing 1980 LP Canada Release - Liberty/United Records

1. "Turning Japanese"
2. "Sixty Second Interval"
3. "Waiting for the Weekend"
4. "Spring Collection"
5. "Letter from Hiro"
6. "News at Ten"
7. "Somehow"
8. "Prisoners"
9. "Trains"
10. "Bunkers"