Beach
Wishy Washy Bus Doctor
I've already added my first album from INXS, but this one is pretty cool for its age.
On a Bus, Doctor, and Wishy Washy are great tracks in the 'new wave'.
What's interesting is this record wasn't released in the US until after Shabooh Shoobah was released. So even though this record was released in 1984, the album actually 'dropped' in 1980 in Australia.
Sir Noel Coward's painting titled "Two Nuns" was used by Gecko Graphics for this album
Sir Noel CowardCover Art
Created by Gecko Graphics, who consequently did quite a few Grateful Dead covers in the '90s.
The cover art is a piece by painter is Sir Noel Coward, who painted quite a few fantastic pieces of art in his day.
This painting is called Two Nuns and can be found on his site: https://www.noelcoward.com/galleries-1 (link fixed, 2026)
Art
An interesting thought from Noël's biography by Sheridan Morley:
"In his lifetime, Noël always reserved his own paintings as first-night or birthday gifts, allowing only one or two to go for the very occasional charity auction and fearing, as he once wrote, that a kind of 'celebrity snobbism' might otherwise make them valued more for their autograph than for their intrinsic worth."
Ah, the value of art.