Visage is the eponymous debut album from the British pop group
VisageVisage are a English pop band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s.-New Wave years :...
, recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in
ReadingReading is a large town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London...
and released by
Polydor RecordsPolydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
on 10 November 1980. The album reached #13 in the UK and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in March 1981.
- Steve Strange
Steve Strange is a Welsh pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage...
– lead vocalsSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
- Midge Ure
Midge Ure OBE is a guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids, Visage, and most notably as frontman of Ultravox...
– guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
, synthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies...
, background vocalsA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
,
- Billy Currie
Billy Currie is an English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboard player with the New Wave band, Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.-Career:In 1974, after being part of art group Ritual Theatre, he joined Tiger Lily, completing the line-up...
– electric violinAn electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body...
, synthesizer
- John McGeoch
John Alexander McGeoch, , was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Visage, The Armoury Show, Public Image Ltd., and Siouxsie & the Banshees...
– guitar, saxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841...
, backing vocals
- Rusty Egan
Rusty Egan was the drummer for the British new wave band, The Rich Kids. They were founded by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, bass guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; with Steve New guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; and fronted by Midge Ure guitarist, lead...
– drumsA drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
, electronic percussionAn electronic drum is a percussion instrument in which the sound is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration.-How electronic drums work:...
, backing vocals
- Dave Formula
Dave Formula, , is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk band Magazine, and New Romantic ensemble Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers.-Early Years and St...
– synthesizer
- Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson is a British rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic. He has also worked on film soundtracks for David Lynch, and released numerous solo recordings.-Early life:He read comic books from...
– bassThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
on "Visage", "Blocks on Blocks" and "Tar"
- Christopher Payne – synthesizer on "Fade to Grey"
- Cedric Sharpley – drums, electronic drums programming on "Fade to Grey"
- Brigitte Arens – woman's voice on "Fade to Grey"
Side A:
- "Visage" – 3:53
- "Blocks on Blocks" – 4:00
- "The Dancer" – 3:40
- "Tar" – 3:32
- "Fade to Grey" – 4:00
Side B:
- "Malpaso Man" – 4:14
- "Mind of a Toy
Mind of a Toy is the third single by the British pop group Visage, released on Polydor Records in March, 1981 and also the third to be taken from Visage's eponymous debut album...
" – 4:28
- "Moon Over Moscow" – 4:00
- "Visa-age" – 4:18
- "The Steps" – 3:14
- Track A3 composed by Ure
Midge Ure OBE is a guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids, Visage, and most notably as frontman of Ultravox...
/EganRusty may refer to:*Something which is covered with rust*Red-brown in colour, as with rust*Rusty, a nickname for men who have red hair or are named RussellIn film:...
.
- Track A5 composed by Currie
Billy Currie is an English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboard player with the New Wave band, Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.-Career:In 1974, after being part of art group Ritual Theatre, he joined Tiger Lily, completing the line-up...
/Ure/Payne.
- All other tracks composed by Visage (Currie/Egan/Formula/McGeoch/Strange/Ure).
- "Visage" – 3:53
- "Blocks on Blocks" – 4:00
- "The Dancer" – 3:40
- "Tar" – 3:32
- "Fade to Grey" – 4:00
- "Malpaso Man" – 4:14
- "Mind Of A Toy" – 4:28
- "Moon Over Moscow" – 4:00
- "Visa-age" – 4:18
- "The Steps" – 3:14
Bonus tracks:
- "Fade to Grey (Dance Mix)" – 6:14
- "Tar" – 3:27 (Sept.
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Visage is the eponymous debut album from the British pop group
VisageVisage are a English pop band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s.-New Wave years :...
, recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in
ReadingReading is a large town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London...
and released by
Polydor RecordsPolydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
on 10 November 1980. The album reached #13 in the UK and was certified "Silver" by the British Phonographic Industry in March 1981.
Visage
- Steve Strange
Steve Strange is a Welsh pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage...
– lead vocalsSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
- Midge Ure
Midge Ure OBE is a guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids, Visage, and most notably as frontman of Ultravox...
– guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
, synthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies...
, background vocalsA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
,
- Billy Currie
Billy Currie is an English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboard player with the New Wave band, Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.-Career:In 1974, after being part of art group Ritual Theatre, he joined Tiger Lily, completing the line-up...
– electric violinAn electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body...
, synthesizer
- John McGeoch
John Alexander McGeoch, , was a Scottish guitarist who played with a number of bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Visage, The Armoury Show, Public Image Ltd., and Siouxsie & the Banshees...
– guitar, saxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bored transposing musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841...
, backing vocals
- Rusty Egan
Rusty Egan was the drummer for the British new wave band, The Rich Kids. They were founded by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, bass guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; with Steve New guitarist and backing vocals, occasional lead vocals; and fronted by Midge Ure guitarist, lead...
– drumsA drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
, electronic percussionAn electronic drum is a percussion instrument in which the sound is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration.-How electronic drums work:...
, backing vocals
- Dave Formula
Dave Formula, , is an English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk band Magazine, and New Romantic ensemble Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers.-Early Years and St...
– synthesizer
Guest musicians
- Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson is a British rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic. He has also worked on film soundtracks for David Lynch, and released numerous solo recordings.-Early life:He read comic books from...
– bassThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
on "Visage", "Blocks on Blocks" and "Tar"
- Christopher Payne – synthesizer on "Fade to Grey"
- Cedric Sharpley – drums, electronic drums programming on "Fade to Grey"
- Brigitte Arens – woman's voice on "Fade to Grey"
Original release: 28MM 0019
Side A:
- "Visage" – 3:53
- "Blocks on Blocks" – 4:00
- "The Dancer" – 3:40
- "Tar" – 3:32
- "Fade to Grey" – 4:00
Side B:
- "Malpaso Man" – 4:14
- "Mind of a Toy
Mind of a Toy is the third single by the British pop group Visage, released on Polydor Records in March, 1981 and also the third to be taken from Visage's eponymous debut album...
" – 4:28
- "Moon Over Moscow" – 4:00
- "Visa-age" – 4:18
- "The Steps" – 3:14
- Track A3 composed by Ure
Midge Ure OBE is a guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids, Visage, and most notably as frontman of Ultravox...
/EganRusty may refer to:*Something which is covered with rust*Red-brown in colour, as with rust*Rusty, a nickname for men who have red hair or are named RussellIn film:...
.
- Track A5 composed by Currie
Billy Currie is an English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboard player with the New Wave band, Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.-Career:In 1974, after being part of art group Ritual Theatre, he joined Tiger Lily, completing the line-up...
/Ure/Payne.
- All other tracks composed by Visage (Currie/Egan/Formula/McGeoch/Strange/Ure).
One Way Records release: OW 34519
- "Visage" – 3:53
- "Blocks on Blocks" – 4:00
- "The Dancer" – 3:40
- "Tar" – 3:32
- "Fade to Grey" – 4:00
- "Malpaso Man" – 4:14
- "Mind Of A Toy" – 4:28
- "Moon Over Moscow" – 4:00
- "Visa-age" – 4:18
- "The Steps" – 3:14
Bonus tracks:
- "Fade to Grey (Dance Mix)" – 6:14
Singles
- "Tar" – 3:27 (Sept. 1979), did not chart
- "Fade to Grey" – 3:14 (Nov. 1980), UK #8
- "Mind of a Toy
Mind of a Toy is the third single by the British pop group Visage, released on Polydor Records in March, 1981 and also the third to be taken from Visage's eponymous debut album...
" – 3:39 (Mar. 1981), UK #13
- "Visage" – 3:47 (Jun. 1981), UK #21