New Clear Days

About New Clear Days

New Clear Days is the 1980 debut album by the British rock group The Vapors. It contains their best-known song, "Turning Japanese", which reached No. 3 in the UK chart in February 1980 and was also a worldwide success. A remix of "News at Ten" (named after the well-known ITV news programme), went to No. 45 in July of that year. A third single, a re-recording of "Waiting for the Weekend" that included a horn section, failed to chart. The title is a pun on Nuclear - nuclear weapons and power stations being major issues at that time. The album cover shows a rather grainy television screen displaying a BBC TV weather forecast. Among the symbols for clouds is one located over London that is, on closer examination, a mushroom cloud. In addition, one of the temperature symbols has been replaced with one warning of radiation and the weatherman glows. more »