For Vice Versa, their future sound of sheffield was to be in gold shiny suits with a lush Trevor Horn production. However, back in the late 70's, the music of Vice Versa was as innovative as their contemporaries, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and the original Human League.These 8 tracks were recorded in April 1980 and self-released as a single side cassette tape. Interesting stuff, though hardly earth shattering as they were just another Sheffield industrial, experimental electronic act and offered nothing new. Pop fame was just a few years away. Nicked from another site...
ABC essentially started out as an electronic band called Vice Versa in early 1978. When they played support to The Human League in Sheffield in July 1978 they were reviewed in NME as ...a bizarro trio who show occasional flashes of promise, but whose pretentiousness becomes quite tiresome. In September 1979 they released an EP called "Vice Versa Music 4", the songs are "Riot Squad", "Camille", "New Girls/Neutrons" and "Science - Fact" and it came out on their own Neutron Records label. At this stage the members are Mark White, Stephen Singleton and David Sydenham. Martin Fry came onto the scene a couple of months later after interviewing the band for the magazine he was running called Modern Drugs, along with Mark and Stephen they formed ABC.
8 Aspects Of.. : Originally released on a cassette in 1980
1. Democratic Dancebeat
2. Stilyagi
3. Eyes Of Christ
4. Jazz Drugs
5. Body Sculpture
6. Trapped In Celluloid
7. Artists At War
8. Idol
Stilyagi and Eyes Of Christ are different versions from Stilyagi 7"
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