Yet There’s Still This Appeal, That We’ve Kept Through Our Lives: The “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Legacy

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It has been listed on countless charts and in so many ranking polls as one of the most – if not the most – influential and perfect pop song of all time. It has inspired musicians all over the world, and united a cadre of dark music genres that do not easily converge. A deconstructed love song, an ode to the fragility and breakdown of relationships and psychological turmoil that results, it has been an anthem for misfits and outcasts the world over for forty years.

Alt.Rewind with Billy Bragg, Depeche Mode, New Order and The Vapors (June 05, 2020)

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Velvet Rebel recaps This Week In Music as covered by Strangeways Radio and Slicing Up Eyeballs. This episode features a cool performance from Billy Bragg, a brand new extended video from Depeche Mode and excerpts from a Record Store Day Peel Sessions recording from New Order. Plus, brand new music from The Vapors. That’s right, the folks who brought you Turning Japanese.

Alt.Rewind – May 15, 2020 with New Order / Joy Division, Pet Shop Boys, Howard Jones and John Taylor

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Velvet Rebel recaps This Week In Music as covered by Strangeways Radio and Slicing Up Eyeballs. This episode features heavy doses of New Order and Joy Division news including the results of our poll of favorite New Order album and song in the post Factory Records era. Plus, the 80s Lockdown Fest, bass lessons from John Taylor and an Under The Radar selection from Becca Mancari