Late Cleopatra Retro/Neo-80's Weirdness Featuring Zodiac Mindwarp!!!!!

Ah, my obsession with Cleopatra Records and the places it has taken me. Those who have been following this blog this week will already know that I had had a closed mind about albums put out by Cleopatra after the mid-90's, but then I found a bunch of compilations they had put out in recent years and started listening to them with an open mind, including the hair metal ones. Part of it is that there are so many goth and metal bands that exist, that there is actually an important function to the ability to sort out the quality and put together a decent playlist. Mike Riddick at Metalhit is good at doing this, the Metalhit Free Download Series is a good example of this well done, the woman that puts together the Doomed station on soma.fm, DJ Lucretia, does a very good job. I don't know who puts the song lists together for Cleopatra Records, whether or not that's the owner Brian Perera, but whoever does it does a fairly good job. I haven't used illegal drugs recreationally in years, but the only thing I really miss about that is the way in which it enhanced the experience of listening to music. I have this playlist on Spotify if you look it up it's called Late Cleopatra Retro/Neo-80's Weirdness. If you have Spotify you have to check it out, or if you don't go to Spotify, you'll find it. This playlist is not so much my doing as that I grabbed a couple compilations that Cleopatra Records put out in recent years. There's Electronic 101, which I reviewed on here, which is general electronic music across genres, 100 Hair Metal Essentials which is hair metal, Covered in Metal Hits, which is bands across genres covering songs that were hits in the 80's, This Is Gothic and 100 Gothic Essentials which are of course gothic music, Hair Metal in Covers I reviewed earlier that's hair metal bands doing covers, and This Is Metal which is metal in a more general sense and includes black metal and thrash metal. The songs on Electronica 101 and 100 Hair Metal Essentials are dispersed between each other, but eventually I gave up and just left the entire albums as blocks. I did, however, delete songs that were repeats. You get some really classics on their. Zodiac Mindwarp who opened up for the Cult on their Electric tour, things like that. It's like an endless sea of good music. I think bizarre hair metal kitsch and weird vampire bands is the way to go. Then there's odd 80's pop, like this track right here... You want to talk about art rock and experimental bands? There isn't really music much more out there than what Cleopatra have been putting out in recent years. You get some really compilations they've done in the last couple years.