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New Clear Days
Studio album by
The Vapors
Released
1980
Recorded
1979-1980, Basing Street Studios, The Town House
Genre
Punk rock,
New Wave,
Power Pop
Label
United Artists
Producer
Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
Professional reviews
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The Vapors chronology
New Clear Days
(1980)
Magnets
(1981)
New Clear Days was
The Vapors 1980 debut album containing the
UK hit singles: "
Turning Japanese", which reached No. 3 in the chart in February 1980. A remix of "News at Ten" (named after the well known
ITV news programme), went to No. 45 in July of that year. A third single, a re-recording of "Waiting For The Weekend" which included a horn section, failed to chart.
The title was a
pun on Nuclear - nuclear weapons and power stations being major issues at that time. The album cover showing a rather grimy television screen displaying a BBC TV
weather forecast. Among the symbols for clouds is one centred over
London which is, upon closer examination, a
mushroom cloud. In addition, one of the temperature symbols has been replaced with one warning of radiation and the weatherman glows.
"News at Ten" - a cynical examination of the generation gap and the fear of ending up as complacent as the parent he despises for his conformism - was expected to be a hit on the back of the success of "Turning Japanese", its poorer performance was blamed in part by the long running strike at the BBC's
Top Of The Pops which meant it received very little media exposure. There was also a marked reluctance by BBC Radio 1 - then the nation's premier radio station - to play a song named after an ITV programme.
Apart from the three singles, the best known other track is "Sixty Second Interval". Its ambiguous lyrics have been interpreted alternately as concerning the short cease-fires agreed between armies during wars to allow each to attend to their wounded in the no-man's land between them. The song was the inspiration behind the long running "Sixty Second Interview" feature of the UK's
Metro (Associated Metro Limited) free newspaper given away at public transport stations.
"Letter from Hiro", the album's lengthy melancholy finale concerns the ...
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