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History

In these times where trends come and go quite quickly and where rhythm structures are controlled by machines, the music of THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS (Edward KA-SPEL and THE SILVERMAN) has almost the effect of anachronism. Since their foundation in August 1980, the band always worked on their eccentric and special variant of the British Art Rock.

Edward KA-SPEL (Singer and conceptionist of the band) 's lyrics are something special and important. He tells his fantastic stories with a strange, sometimes forceful and monotone voice.

(Source: Play It Again, Sam! - 1988)

Discography

1982
BRIGHTER NOW (LP/CD)
Red Castles - Louder After 6 - The Wedding - Apocalypse Then - Legacy - City Ghosts - Hanging Gardens - Soma Bath - Premonition 4

1983
CURSE (LP/CD)
Love Puppets - Wall Purges Night - Lisa's Party - Arzhklahh - Olgevezh! - Pruumptje Kurss - Waving at the Aeroplanes - Hiding - Dolls' House - The Palace of Love - Stoned Obituary

1984
FACES IN THE FIRE (12"/CDS)
Blasto - Love in a Plain Brown Envelope - Sleeso - Neon Gladiators - Kitto - Eight Minutes to Live

THE TOWER (LP/CD)
Black Zone - Break Day - Tower One - Vigil-Anti - A Lust For Powder - Poppy Day - Tower Two - Astrid - Rope and Glory - Tower Three - Tower Four - Tower Five

ASYLUM (2 LP/CD)
Disc One: Echo Police - Gorgon Zola's Baby - Fifteen Flies in the Marmalade - Femme Mirage - The Hill - Demonism - Prisoner - So Gallantly Screaming
Disc Two: I am the Way, the Truth, the Light - Agape -Golden Dawn - The Last Straw - A Message From Our Sponsor - Go Ask Alice - This Could Be The End

1986
CURIOUS GUY (12")
Curious Guy - Premonition 16

ISLAND OF JEWELS (LP/CD)
Tower Six - The Red and The Black - The Diary - Emblem Parade - Jewel On An Island - Rattlesnake Arena - The Shock of Contact - Jewel in the Crown - Our Lady in Chambers - Our Lady in Kharki - Our Lady in Darkness - The Guardians of Eden

1988
UNDER GLASS (12")
Under Glass - The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes - The Plasma Twins

ANY DAY NOW (LP/CD)
Casting the Runes - A Strychnine Kiss - Laguna Beach - The Gallery - Neon Mariners - True Love - The Peculiar Fun Fair - Waiting For The Cloud - Cloud Zero
Extra-tracks on CD: Under Glass - The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes - The Plasma Twins

STONE CIRCLES - A L.P.D. ANTHOLOGY (LP/CD)
Love Puppets - Curious Guy - Black Zone -/ Hanging Gardens - Golden Dawn - Fifteen Flies in the Marmalade - Our Lady in Darkness - Gladiators Version Apocalypse

1989
BLACKLIST (12")
Blacklist - Methods - Our Lady in Cervetori

THE GOLDEN AGE (LP/CD)
Maniac - The Talent Contest - The More it Changes - Hotel Noir - Stille Nacht - The Month After - Lisa's Separation - The Golden Age? - Black Castles - And Even the Vegetables Screamed - Regression
Extra-tracks on CD: Blacklist - Methods - Our Lady in Cervetori

1990
THE CRUSHED VELVET APOCALYPSE (LP/CD)
I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty - Green Gang - Hellsville - Hellowe'en - The Safe Way - Just a Lifetime - The Death of Jack the Ripper - New Tomorrow
Extra-tracks on CD: Princess Coldheart - The Pleasure Palace - The Collector - C.V.A.

PRINCESS COLDHEART (12")
Princess Coldheart - The Pleasure Palace - The Collector

1991
THE MARIA DIMENSION (LP/CD)
Disturbance - Pennies For Heaven - Third Secret - The Grain Kings - The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder' - Belladonna - A Space Between - Evolution
Extra-tracks on CD: Cheraderama - Lilith - Fourth Secret - Expresso Noir - Home - Crushed Velvet

1992
SHADOW WEAVER (LP/CD)
Zero Zero - Guilty Man - Ghosts of Unborn Children - City of Needles - Stitching Time - Twilight Hour - The Key to Heaven - Laughing Guest
Extra-tracks on CD: Prague Spring - Leper Colony

1993
MALACHAI -SHADOW WEAVER PART 2 (LP/CD)
Joey The Canary - Kingdom Of The Flies - Encore Une Fois - Wildlife Estate - Pavane - On The Boards - We Bring The Day
Extra-tracks on CD: Window On The World - Paris 4AM

1994
FOUR DAYS (CD)
The Day She Left - The Day She Returned - The Day She Thought About Leaving and Fell Into the Duck Pond - Nadelstadt - The Day She Lost The Key - Excerpt From The Citadel - Divine Resignation Part 1 - Divine Resignation Part 2 - (Oriental title) - East of Shanghai

9 LIVES TO WONDER (CD)
Madame Guillotine - On Another Shore - Softly Softly - Crumbs On The Carpet - Hotel Z - Oasis Malade - A Crack In Melancholy Time - Siren - The Angel Trail - Nine Shades To The Circle - A Terra Firma Welcome

1995
CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 8+9 (2 CD)
Disc One: A Triple Moon Salute - Cease Your Lonely Mourning - Little Oyster - Catch a Match a Bang Bang. A Flashing Fist of Crackajack. A Smack. A Lick. A Char Char. You're all Burned Out. - Invaders in the Raita - The Artificial Silence - A Chrome Zone in Powder Park - Pandora's Socks - Andromeda Suite - Pastorial
Disc Two: A Pause in a Melancholy Silence - Burned at the Steakhouse - New Shoes - I Dream of Jeannie - She Gave me an Apple - Stirred but not Shaken - The Ballad of Ron and Popo - Where No Man - Premonition 7

FROM HERE YOU'LL WATCH THE WORLD GO BY (CD)
Clockwise - Citadel - Friend - A Velvet Resurrection - Kollusim - 1001 Commandments - Remember Me This Way - This One-Eyed Man Is King - Straight On 'Til Morning - Damien - This Hollowed Ground

REMEMBER ME THIS WAY (CDS)
Remember Me This Way (Full Length Version) - Beautiful Machine - Anastasia - Day Zero - Damien (Remix)

1996
PRAYER FOR ARADIA (CD)
Premonition 8 - Flesh Parade - Purity - Purified - Forgotten - Davritt - Outsider - Invocation - Love in a Plain Brown Envelope No. 1 - Love on a Stained Glass Window - Space Captain No. 1 - Premonition 9 - Premonition 5 - A Spanish Bridge - Stoned Obit 1980 - Peace Crime 2 - Professional - Brill - Sensory Drepivation - Temper Temper - Ampitheatre Shuffle - Before The End - Fin

1997
HALLWAY OF THE GODS (2 LP/CD)
On High - Mekkanikk - Sterre - Spike - All Sides - Harvest Babies - Lucifer Landed - The Hanged Man - The Saucers are Coming - Destined to Repeat - Hallway

CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 10 (CD)
Scarlet Wish - Inside - Colour Wheel - The Disaster Area - Nouveaux Modes Exotiques - Glasshouse - The Man With The Cut-Glass Heart - Little Romeo - Kleine Juliet - Saucers #1 - Premonition 19 - Wonderdome

STERRE (CDS)
Sterre - Spike (psychomix) - The Elefant's Graveyard - Sterre (Instrumental)

1998
CHEMICAL PLAYSCHOOL 3+4 (2 CD)
Disc One: The Light (in my little girl's eyes) - The Top - Neon Gladiators (version 1) - Obsession - Hideous Strength - The Waiting Game - Curse (The Sequel) - She Said - Film of the Book - Tower 1 (version
one) - Lullaby for Charles' brother - Collapse - Tower 2 - Glad he ate her - Barbed Obituary - Tower 3 - Espresso Curfew - Surprise, Surprise - The bride wore green
Disc Two: When the clock strikes 13 - Just Passing Over, lovey... - Premonition 10 (stages i/ii/iii) - Grind - Choke - The Plasma Twins - Apocalypse Soon - Apocalypse Gone - Cherry Lipstick - It's raining... Again - The Glory, the glory

PRE-MILLENIAL SINGLE (12"/CDS)
Hellsville '98 - Needles (Version Sirius) - Andromeda Suite '98 - Abracadabra ZZZZ

NEMESIS ON-LINE (CD)
Dissonance - Jasz - As Long as it's Purple and Green - Ghost - Under Your Wheels - A Sunset for a Swan - Is it Something I Said? - Zoo - Fate's Faithful Punchline - Cheating the Shadow - Abracadabra - Slaapliedje

2000
A PERFECT MYSTERY (CD)
Lent - When I'm With You - When Lenny Meets Lorca - Skeltzer Spleltzer - Mood 159 - Pain Bubbles - Blue - Condition Green - Death of a King - Godless

Links

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