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Dali's Car

 
Artist: Dali's Car
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  • Formed: 1984
  • Disbanded: 1984
  • Genres: Rock

Biography

Dali's Car were doomed almost from the start. A seemingly good idea when first suggested to former Bauhaus vocalist/lyricist Peter Murphy that he collaborate with ex-Japan bassist/composer Mick Karn, the group nearly self-destructed before it was disbanded. Their sole album, The Waking Hour, released in 1984, came in more than £20,000 ($30,000) over the £40,000 ($60,000) budget given them by Virgin and Beggars Banquet. A commercial failure, the album produced one equally disappointing single, "The Judgement Is the Mirror." Things seemed fine when Murphy and Karn began their collaboration. Initially working with four-track tapes that they sent back and forth, they wrote most of the songs before they came together in the studio. Once there, however, they clashed, and when the project was completed, neither wanted to work together again. "It was a particularly difficult project," Karn said in a late-'90s interview. "We were two very different people." ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide
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Dalis Car
Origin England
Genres Post-punk
Years active 1984
Former members
Peter Murphy
Mick Karn
Paul Vincent Lawford

Dalis Car was a musical group formed in 1984 by Peter Murphy (vocalist), Mick Karn (bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist) and Paul Vincent Lawford (rhythm construction). The band was formed shortly after Murphy and Karn left their former bands (Bauhaus and Japan, respectively). They recorded one album, The Waking Hour, and released one single, "The Judgement is The Mirror." The cover of the album features a detail from Maxfield Parrish's seminal painting Daybreak.

The recording of the album took place in unusual circumstances, as neither Karn nor Murphy spent much time together in the recording studio, preferring to send tapes back and forth between each another, to work on alone.

The album, a collection of keyboard and bass-driven songs, was a commercial failure and the duo soon disbanded.

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Discography

Albums

  • The Waking Hour (1984) - UK #84[1]
  1. "Dali's Car" - 5:12
  2. "His Box" - 4:43
  3. "Cornwall Stone" - 5:19
  4. "Artemis" - 4:38
  5. "Create and Melt" - 5:37
  6. "Moonlife" - 4:57
  7. "The Judgement Is the Mirror" - 4:38

Singles

  • "The Judgement is The Mirror" (1984) - UK #66[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 138. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 



 
 
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