Dodgy Second Album Syndrome

Boxcar - Algorhythm

Jump ahead a few years to the dance infested mid-nineties for the second Boxcar long player. The cover is a clue that Boxcar joined the squelchy acid generation (a bit too late perhaps), but the New Order influences are still in evidence. It would seem that they also had an admiration for the dance output of The Beloved, especially on the uplifting Spirit. This, Dubariser, the balearic Olive and the harder beats of Walk Through Hell are likely the strongest points on what is a fairly mediocre and unoriginal album.

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Pulse 8 Records (PULSE 24CD) in 1995 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.

1. What Are You So Happy About?
2. Spirit
3. Universal Hymn
4. Walk Through Hell
5. Dubariser
6. Matterhorn
7. We've Come To This
8. People Get High
9. Dust
10. Algorhythm
11. Gleam
12. Olive

Afraid Of Heights

Boxcar - Vertigo

Bringing an end to my recent dips into synthetic pop and staying in the southern hemisphere, here's the debut LP from antipodean popsters Boxcar. Arista picked up the rights for the band in most of the free world, however it was left to Belgian label Play It Again Sam to license it for the UK and Europe.

There is no hiding the New Order comparisons with Boxcar, but they do it quite well. Singles such as Gas Stop and Freemason verge on mimicking Manchester's finest, and I still do hold a special place for better album tracks suck as 900 Hours, Hit & Run and the wonderful This Is The Town.

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Volition/Play It Again Sam (VOLT 24CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.

1. Gas Stop (Who Do You Think You Are?)
2. Insect
3. Vertigo
4. Freemason
5. Comet
6. Hit & Run
7. 900 Hours
8. Lelore
9. Cruel To You
10. This Is The Town
11. Index

Bizarre Lurv Triangle

Boxcar - Freemason

I posted a Boxcar discography on one of the very first posts here as MP3s, but as I have sorting through some boxes and rediscovered this old CD single, I though it deserved a lossless post. There have been a few other New Order sound-a-likes on these pages, but of them all, this 1989 Boxcar single comes closest to the Manchester band's mid-late 80s pop outputs - even down to the bass. The single is of course mixed by  one Arthur Baker who may well have had a hand in the band's direction.

There were also two albums which I have, if anybody needs to hear them again (or maybe for the first time) let me know.

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Arista Records (662 499) in 1989 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.

1. Freemason (You Broke The Promise)
2. Freemason (Shakedown Mix)
3. Comet