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Woo-hoo, I just got a new phono preamp, and a big old desk, so now I have my turntable hooked up to my PC and for the first time since 2002 I can rip tunes from vinyl again!  It took a bit of doing; apparently the RCA audio input jacks on my Gateway GM5472 are merely decorative.  So much for that selling point.  So I broke down and plugged the jacks into a Y-adapter and then into the sound card line in jack, and now everything's dandy.  For the maiden voyage of my new setup I've ripped "Water in My Eye" by Kissing the Pink (later just KTP), released on Magnet Records in 1982 as the B-side of the "Mr Blunt" single.  It was not included on the band's first album, 1983's Naked, because by that time the singer was no longer in the band, according to the band member I interviewed by telephone for my campus radio station.  Didn't actually record the interview, though... oops.  Too bad about the singer, her voice is like a platinum bell (or maybe that's just the studio effects, but I love that sound!):

So who was that singer?  I don't know, and I can't tell from Jeff Grote's otherwise exhaustive Kissing the Pink fansite. I wish they would have done more songs in this totally-synthesized vein.  "Water in My Eye," and the rest of the Naked album, was produced by one of the architects of the 80s new wave sound, Colin Thurston.  Thurston is best known for producing the first two Duran Duran albums; he also produced the Human League's Travelogue that I was just raving about the other day.  I was taken aback to learn that he died in January of this year.  Naked has been reissued on CD by Wounded Bird Records, who have an impressive catalog of fully-licensed reissues with original cover art.