{"id":42102,"date":"2025-01-05T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42102"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:31:07","slug":"releases-the-blue-meaning-picture-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/releases-the-blue-meaning-picture-disc\/","title":{"rendered":"Releases: The Blue Meaning &#8211; Picture Disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/picture-disc-the-blue-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/picture-disc-the-blue-meaning\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tbm25b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah&#8217;s 1980 studio album, <em>The Blue Meaning<\/em>, will be released on limited edition picture disc on 21st March, marking the album&#8217;s 45th anniversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 45th anniversary release of Toyah\u2019s 1980 album \u2018The Blue Meaning\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Limited-edition picture disc features four stunning colour photographs from the album photography shot at gothic mansion, Wykehurst Place in Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In addition to the full colour picture disc, pressed with the 2021 album remaster by Nick Watson, the vinyl come protected in a PVC sleeve and is housed in a special die-cut outer jacket that carries a further rare and unseen images unearthed from the archives.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Steve James and \u2018Toyah\u2019 the band &#8211; Joel Bogen, Pete Bush, Toyah Willcox, Steve Bray and Charlie Francis, the album reached number 1 on the UK Independent Album Chart and charted in the main UK Top 40 album chart in June 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The album includes the ultimate fan favourite \u2018Ieya\u2019 considered a signature song by the band, which was also released as a single. It also includes \u2018Blue Meanings\u2019, \u2018Mummies\u2019 and the psychedelic \u2018Spaced Walking\u2019 for which Toyah\u2019s vocals were recorded after inhaling helium.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 See further details\/tracklist and artwork at <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/picture-disc-the-blue-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>toyahwillcox.com<\/strong><\/a>. Pre-order the release at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-picture-disc-vinyl-lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cherry Red Records<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-picture-disc-vinyl-lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-picture-disc-vinyl-lp noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42115 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tbm25a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tbm25a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tbm25a-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah&#8217;s 1980 studio album, The Blue Meaning, will be released on limited edition picture disc on 21st March, marking the album&#8217;s 45th anniversary. \u2022 45th anniversary release of Toyah\u2019s 1980 album \u2018The Blue Meaning\u2019. \u2022 Limited-edition picture disc features four stunning colour photographs from the album photography shot at gothic mansion, Wykehurst Place in Sussex. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,149,13],"tags":[3120,3304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42116,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions\/42116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}