Best of the early years: 1987​-​1992

Lee Hopkins. Best of the early years - cover image

Synth pop-rock, written in the late 80s, early 90s.

1.Crocodile tears 04:07
2.D 04:37
3.I don’t believe it 04:11
4.Rational man 03:28
5.It broke 04:32
6.Designer dirt video 03:50
7.Grant gets engaged 05:20
8.IWTD 03:37
9.Jenny 02:57
10.Julie 03:41
11.My place 03:29
12.No time 05:21
13.Sin 03:05
14.White legged lover 05:04
15.15km east of Euroa 05:28
16.5.30 Melbourne morning 04:06
17.Visual 03:14

Listen to the album on Bandcamp.

About

The only songs remaining from my relocation to England to be a rock star. I didn’t make it as a rockstar, but I gave it a go based in part of some of these tracks.

These tracks are recordings of tape recordings, certainly not originals, and there is tape hiss and audio compression a-plenty.

A lot of these tracks are instrumentals, works-in-progress that needed yet-to-be-written lyrics.

Released September 8, 2016

Equipment

  • Alesis MMT8 sequencer
  • Roland Juno 106 synthesiser
  • Roland D-50 synthesiser
  • Tascam 244 4-track Portastudio
  • Roland S-10 sampler
  • Alesis HR-16 drum machine
  • Shure SM58 microphone
  • Yamaha REX50 reverb
  • Later: Atari 1040 ST and Cubase for Atari

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