{"id":175,"date":"2008-12-15T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:11:34","slug":"a-popular-history-of-signs-taste-lpcomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-popular-history-of-signs-taste-lpcomp\/","title":{"rendered":"A Popular History of Signs- Taste LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A request for today, ladies and gentlemen. This post contains London based minimal synth\/new wave band A Popular History of Signs and their 1987 singles collection, <i>Taste<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The three-piece outfit (centering around Andrew Jarman on bass\/vocals, Peter Scammell on keyboards, and Paul Clarke on percussion) released their first 7&#8221; record in 1980, and ended with this compilation and their final LP, 1988&#8217;s <i>England in the Rain<\/i> (which featured a slightly expanded lineup and a more pop-oriented approach).<\/p>\n<p>Though the band never earned a huge following, they remained a cult favorite, attracting the attention of Ministry&#8217;s Al Jourgenson, who remixed both &#8216;Ladder Jack&#8217; and &#8216;House,&#8217; both versions which appear below. The rest of the compilation tracks appeared originally as 7&#8221; and 12&#8221; releases over the course of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Jarman is now flying solo under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/southernartssociety\">Southern Arts Society<\/a> moniker, recording and playing to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-popular-history-of-signs-taste-lpcomp\/popular-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/popular-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/popular-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/popular-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/popular-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Popular History of Signs- <i>Taste<\/i> LP<br \/>\n1. Crowds<br \/>\n2. Justice Not Vengeance<br \/>\n3. Dancing With Ideas<br \/>\n4. Stigma<br \/>\n5. Art Of Persuasion<br \/>\n6. If She Was A Car<br \/>\n7. Ladder Jack<br \/>\n8. Trapped<br \/>\n9. Body And Soul<br \/>\n10. House<br \/>\n11. Rock &amp; Roll (Velvet Underground cover)<br \/>\n12. Run Through The Jungle (John Fogerty cover)<\/p>\n<p>*DOWNLOAD LINK REMOVED* &#8211; reissued on all your favorite digital media outlets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A request for today, ladies and gentlemen. This post contains London based minimal synth\/new wave band A Popular History of Signs and their 1987 singles collection, Taste. The three-piece outfit (centering around Andrew Jarman on bass\/vocals, Peter Scammell on keyboards, and Paul Clarke on percussion) released their first 7&#8221; record in 1980, and ended with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130,279,17,3,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-130","category-a-popular-history-of-signs","category-minimal","category-synth","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}