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Modern Eon | |
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Title:
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Child's Play | |
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Format:
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7" Single | |
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Year:
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1981 | |
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Label:
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DinDisc | |
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Catalog
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Din31 | |
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Song Titles: (Child's Play is a
different mix from the album version)
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Reviews:
Modern Eon: Child's Play
'Euthenics' was a good double-sided single from Modern Eon, a Liverpool area group. Now they're at Dindisc M.E. have regressed into an overblown Yes-type travesty. If the singer has got any sense he'll knock the Jon Anderson bit on the head and start again. It's got to be a serious disadvantage old son. -Max Bell, NMEModern Eon: Child's Play
The history of the Twentieth Century has after all only twenty years or so to go. Then, Nuclear holocaust. Or, if not, a form on 1984, already to be seen in many areas of both personal and social freedom. Parliament shall not exist: that is definite. A chimera of absolute justice will be chased-up nobody will care to remember that life is unfair, but unfair for a reason.
In these circumstances a band such as Modern Eon making singles such as 'Child's Play' is MERELY counting-out time on the soil of the problem. No solution. Just mounting evidence of symptoms - a weak kneed new decadence, recording all done at the fabled Manor studios, the result a production right over the top and then beyond, trying to disguise a confusion of (too many) ideas and, more basically one suspects, a lack of character. Modern Eon are a mess and their name is a clue to it. -Sounds May 9, 1981Modern Eon: Child's Play
The False child-like awe of the vocals is totally drowned by the heavy electronics and the production. Whether this is merciful I cannot say. -Record Mirror May 5, 1981Modern Eon: Child's Play
'Child's Play' opens in a soft orchestrated manner and then into very up front and slightly 'echoed' drumming. The guitar work is very similar to that of U2's The Edge, as is the vocal treatment. However, Modern Eon are fore-bearers of the new pop sound and in the same league as Teardrop Explodes, Orange Juice and U2. 'Visionary' is a less commercial piece and a much more intense song. -Vox Fanzine 1981Modern Eon: Child's Play
Stand by for the superlatives. Modern Eon just keep getting better and it sure sounds like Child's Play as magic Alix rides high and free on his ripped-velvet pipes and the band paints shimmering chimerical landscapes. Close your eyes and float downstream. Modern Eon surrender to the void and report back to base. Buy it, buy it. Amazing. may the bird of paradise fly up their noses. -Dark Star Magazine
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