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Holy Wars

by Tuxedomoon

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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  • The Box (vinyl)

    The Tuxedomoon Vinyl Box is an elaborate, luxurious, bountiful artefact, containing 9 of the band's main albums (see list below), an album ("Appendix") entirely consisting of previously-unreleased tracks, a 28-page 12"-sized book with notes by the band members (who reminisce about the recording of these albums) plus all the lyrics & credits, a 60x60 cm poster and a single code for downloading the content of the 10 albums.

    LP1 Half-Mute 1980

    LP2 Desire 1981
    LP3 Holy Wars 1985
    LP4 Ship Of Fools 1986

    LP5 You 1987

    LP6 The Ghost Sonata 1991
    LP7 Cabin In The Sky 2004

    LP8 Bardo Hotel Soundtrack 2006
    LP9 Vapour Trails 2007

    LP10 Appendix 2015 (bonus LP with unreleased material)
    ... more

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  • Tuxedomoon - ‘Holy Wars’ - vinyl LP (original 1985 pressing).
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A very limited quantity of the classic album by the cult band which emerged from the San Francisco & New York postpunk scenes, before moving to Europe, capturing the dark, romantic zeitgeist of the 80s and exerting a major influence. "Holy Wars" contains some of the band’s most emblematic tracks: “In A Manner Of Speaking”, “Some Guys”, “Tha Waltz” & more

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The Waltz 05:11
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St John 04:33
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Some Guys 04:58
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Holy Wars 06:44
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Soma 05:42

about

Tuxedomoon were revered and highly influential throughout Europe when they recorded "Holy Wars" in 1985. The album contains some of their most poignant and moving songs : “Some Guys”, “In a Manner of Speaking” (later covered by Martin Gore and by Nouvelle Vague), “Bonjour Tristesse”, “Holy Wars”. It introduced new instrumental colors: Blaine Reininger had left the band, and had just been replaced by Dutch trumpet and harmonica player Luc van Lieshout. Among other subjects, the lyrics are about wandering in the new European megapolis: Wim Wenders recognizes some of his own obsessions, and uses “Some Guys” in the opening scenes of “The Sky Above Berlin”.

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released September 1, 1985

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Tuxedomoon Brussel, Belgium

Experimental avant-garde post-punk New Wave group formed in San Francisco, California, 1977 and re-located to Europe 1981-2011.

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