Duty Now For The Future

Future; while the Ziggy Stardust helmer may be better known for guitar-driven music, this 1979 Warner Bros. collection went a long way toward establishing the synthesizer as New Wave's favourite instrument. The UPC-festooned cover of their second album hints that the spudboys would gladly bite the hand that feeds them to skewer corporate fascism, and the music confirms it. The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize and a terrific reinvention of the Johnny Rivers classic Secret Agent Man were the singles, but the quintet hits bullseye after satirical bullseye here.