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With The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Brooklyn band The Pains of Being Pure At Heart chat to Nemone about their new album.

With Brooklyn band The Pains of Being Pure At Heart in for a chat about their new album.

Sheffield's Heaven 17 are considered a hugely influential electronic soul and funk pop band who recently embarked on their 30th Anniversary Tour of their ground-breaking 1980 album Penthouse And Pavement

Their first single, (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang, was banned by Mike Reid at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1 due to the lyrical content which mentioned Ronald Reagan, and was an attack on Margaret Thatcher's lockdown on the steel mills in Sheffield.

Other themes explored include nuclear war, religious extremism and American influence in the world.

Unlike the seemingly 'cold' music of other electronic bands, Heaven 17 drew on funk and R&B to create pop-friendly, danceable hooks.

The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The band pick their current favourite tracks for a Lunchtime Playlist inlcuding Everything Everything, Crystal Fighters, Donna Summer, Minnie Riperton and Mott the Hoople.

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Fri 3 Dec 2010 13:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Beloved

    The Sun Rising

    • East West Records.

  • Crystal Castles & Robert Smith

    Not In Love

    • Polydor.

  • Television

    Marquee Moon

    • Virgin.

  • Caribou

    Leave House

    • Swim.
    • CITY SLANG.
    • 6.

  • Mumford & Sons

    Winter Winds

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Zola Jesus

    Poor Animal

    • CD SINGLE.
    • SOUTERRAIN TRANSMISSION.
    • 1.

  • Suede

    She's In Fashion

    • Nude Records.

  • Jenny and Johnny

    Big Wave

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Chairmen of the Board

    Working On A Building Of Love

    • HDH.

  • Phosphorescent

    I Don't Care If There's Cursing

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DEAD OCEANS.
    • 1.

  • The Kissaway Trail

    New Lipstick

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COOPERATIVE.
    • 1.

  • Sham 69

    If The Kids Are United

    • DOJO.
    • 12.

  • CSS

    Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above

    • CD SINGLE.

  • Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell

    Time Of The Season

    • CD SINGLE.
    • V2 / COOPERATIVE.
    • 1.

  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

    Heart In Your Heartbreak

    • CD SINGLE.
    • FORTUNA POP!.
    • 1.

  • Pixies

    Velouria

  • Ghostpoet

    Cash and Carry Me Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    • 1.

  • ²Ρ΄Η³ΩΓ¶°ω³σ±π²Ή»ε

    Ace Of Spades

    • Essential.

  • Gruff Rhys

    Shark Ridden Waters

    • CD SINGLE.
    • TURNSTILE.
    • 1.

  • Man Parrish

    Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)

    • Reunited (25 Years Of Polydor Funk).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Laura Marling

    Blues Run The Game

    • Single.
    • Third Man.
    • 1.

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up (Recorded At London's Olympia 26/11/10)

    • Recorded At London's Olympia 27/11/2010.

  • The Zombies

    Time Of The Season

    • Rhino.

  • Kings of Leon

    Pyro

    • Come Around Sundown.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • School of Seven Bells

    I L U

    • CD SINGLE.
    • FULL TIME HOBBY.
    • 1.

  • Orange Juice

    Love

    • Domino.
    • 6.

  • Kasabian

    Underdog

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Two Wounded Birds

    My Lonesome

    • My Lonesome (single).
    • Holiday Friends.
    • 1.

  • Lykke Li

    Get Some

    • CD SINGLE.
    • LL RECORDINGS / Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX

    NY Is Killing Me (Radio Edit)

    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Dec 2010 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music