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Post by neondelirium on Apr 13, 2020 21:29:55 GMT
Hello Martin Newell, I'm a big fan of Cleaners From Venus and your music. Recently, I came across an unidentified song (no known title, confirmed lyrics, unknown artist and origin) and the song actually reminded me of the style of your music. After some research it seems Cleaners From Venus signed onto German record labels in the early 1980s, and the mystery song was actually recorded in 1984 off of a German radio station. This is the song. We've been reaching out to similar bands to see if they recognize the song, if they had involvement, or if they may remember any other band who could have made this song. The lyrics and style remind me of Cleaners From Venus but the vocals don't, but that may be from the tape degrading and distorting it. Thank you for your time, and if you have any information we'd like to know! Any fellow Cleaners/Martin's other music's fans here who also may recognize it will be much appreciated.
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Post by diskojoe on Apr 14, 2020 12:39:20 GMT
It appears that this song seems to be the subject of many guesses on YouTube. I don't think it's a CofV song. It sounds professionally recorded, probably English or European. The vocals sounded like Dave Vanian of the Damned at first. It does sound very 80s. I'm guessing that it's either a English or German band that was going for mainstream Rock success but didn't quite make it.
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Post by Paul on Apr 14, 2020 16:35:06 GMT
Hi Neodelirium nice to see you here.
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Post by neondelirium on Apr 15, 2020 0:51:11 GMT
It appears that this song seems to be the subject of many guesses on YouTube. I don't think it's a CofV song. It sounds professionally recorded, probably English or European. The vocals sounded like Dave Vanian of the Damned at first. It does sound very 80s. I'm guessing that it's either a English or German band that was going for mainstream Rock success but didn't quite make it. Yeah, people have been trying to guess the song artist for a year now. We don't think it's German since some Germans have come in and said the lead singer doesn't sound German, the accent is hard to pinpoint. It might be a demo tape by an early bad that flopped, but we aren't sure. Thanks for the guesses of Dave Vanian and the Damned, I'll see if that's been looked into. I didn't think it was Cleaners from Venus for sure, just that since it was similar and from an obscure band in Germany, and the record labels Martin signed at the time from Germany, maybe he'd have some idea who's behind it. r/TheMysteriousSong has more info if you're curious.
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