Red Noise

Sound-On-Sound (1979). From the Matushita cover on in, an immortal album. Cold Wave titles and Orwellian themes abound throughout "Don't Touch Me, (I'm Electric)", "Stop/ Go/ Stop", "Radar In My Heart", "Out of Touch", "A Better Home In the Phantom Zone", "Substitute Flesh", "The Atom Age", "Art/ Empire/ Industry", and "Revolt Into Style". As one of the only old wave glitter rockers to jump the arenas to become part of the New Wave, Nelson urges others to keep in touch on "Stay Young", while "For Young Moderns" provides a theme to the coming New Romantic scene- "a zero hero Euro lifestyle... a nouveau a-go-go gone wild." Musically, Nelson creates an exuberant Zonk hybrid by taking the New Wave art rock of Drastic Plastic and mixing in a shot of Punk and the jerky spazms of XTC.