Help! I'm So Hollow!

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I am a proud owner of a copy of the "Dreams to Fill the Vacuum" b/w "Distraction" single from 1980 by I'm So Hollow! On this single, I'm So Hollow sound like the missing link between Joy Division and A Flock of Seagulls or something. Really good songwriting with unusual fuzztone guitar (very good playing--an atonal noise solo on the B-side). Synths are used for New Wave arrangements AND to make abstract electonic noises.

They released an album called Emotion/Sound/Motion in 1981. Has anyone ever heard it? Is it great?

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, here's a web page you might or might not have seen yet:

http://home.btconnect.com/sheffieldvision/bands/ish.html

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Trouser Press, meanwhile, is not complimentary:

This moderately unpleasant new-dance quartet from Sheffield has two awful singers, a solid drummer and a penchant for tossing in odd noises and "treatments" when the songs bog down. The music is competently dull, but the vocals are a real detriment.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I do have the album and I think it's great. If you like the single you'd probably like the album just as well. I've always thought though were one of the most overlooked bands of that era.

― dialecticbricks (dialecticbricks), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps this is a perfect band for this thread:

What should LTM be releasing

That said, I really want the Modern Eon stuff reissued first.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome, the singer of Def Leppard was in a band with a member of Vice Versa/ABC.

I've still never heard the Vice Versa songs, but have both They Must Be Russians 7"s.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover of that They Must Be Russians EP looks awesome.

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

My experience has been if the band is from the UK, chances are Trouser Press just won't get it, so no big surprise there, Ned.

I have a song by I'm So Hollow on the Hicks From the Sticks compilation from 1980. It didn't do much for me, but I'll try to check out some other songs soon.

― Bimble (bimble), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Anyone seen the Made in Sheffield documentary? How is the I'm So Hollow footage?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

"if the band is from the UK, chances are Trouser Press just won't get it"

????????

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I remember when Trouser Press was good. *sigh*

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, um, Trouser Press is about the most anglophilic thing I can think of other than like Rodney Bingenheimer.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I love that "Dreams" song. Bonkers intro, if i remember.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

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