does anyone remember this group. They had some airplay and video play during 1983 1984 on Much Music. They were from montreal. They had an awesome sound.

one of the songs kinda goes like this...

"walking, walking
on a tight rope of insanity...
walking, walking
on the verge....

Say! Say to me..."

It is very hard to find any info on them. Anyone?

Doesn't ring a bell. If I heard them maybe I might remember.

I remember the Box I saw them live at the Misty Moon in about 87 or 88. they packed the place

Cal I could hug you. Everyone I talk to has never heard of them!!! Do you remember any of their songs?

Closer Together, and In the USA in the USSR they had couple more that got airplay thanks' to CanCon and I can picture the video but can't place the song. BTW do you remember Minglewood. I was supposed to go see them tomorrow tonight

I don't remember Minglewood. Thanks for the song though. I think I maybe able to narrow a search on audiogalaxy with that info :)

smoochies for you Cal :D

You made me curious, I couldn't think of the song that I rememebered the video, they are a hard band to find anything on so here's what I found

In 1981, Montreal's Jean-Marc Pisapia was a member of Men Without Hats. After a short period (and prior to their world success), he left the band to write tunes with idea man Luc Papineau (lightman for MWH). Several months later, Brie and Florent were recruited. For a period they were called Checkpoint Charlie before Florent suggest the name - The Box.

Meanwhile, Men Without Hats producer Marc Durand had established his own record label with former Anthem Records man Tom Berry called Alert. After Durand produced The Box's winning entry in 1983's CKOI-FM homegrown contest, The Box became Alert's first signing and Jean-Marc's brother Guy was added to take over the main keyboard chores while Jean-Marc focused on vocals.

Their debut album, a mostly English language 'The Box', was released in 1984 and produced several singles which pushed the sales of the album to 10,000 copies.

With the second album 'All The Time..." Guy Florent had left and was replaced by Claude Thibeault. Two new sounds were added in female backing vocals by a very young Sass Jordan, and permanent drummer Phillipe Bernard was assigned to fill the position left vacant by the drum machines. They were nominated for a Most Promising Group Juno and received 1985 Felix Award for being Group Of The Year mainly due to their single/video for the French-meets-English language "L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say To Me)".

1987's 'Closer Together' went platinum due to three hit singles. Along with the single/video of the title track, the band created a 22 minute charity video of the song for Leukemia Canada featuring members of the Montreal Canadiens.

After touring 'Closer Together' for more than 18 months, the band took 6 months off to recover before coming back with 1990's 'The Pleasure And The Pain' which was recorded in England with Martin Rushent (Human League, The Go-Gos). The album's failure to make any in-roads across the border prompted The Box to disband from frustration.

Jean-Marc re-emerged in 1995 with a solo album 'John of Mark' on Alert Records.


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Singles
1984 Walk Away (Alert)
1984 Must I Always Remember (Alert)
1984 L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say To Me)/Remnants (Alert)

1985 My Dreams Of You/To What We Shall Believe (Alert)

1987 Ordinary People (Alert)
1987 Closer Together (Alert)

1988 Crying Out Loud For Love (Alert)

1990 Carry On (Alert)
1990 Temptation (Alert)
1990 Inside My Heart (Alert)

Albums
1984 The Box (Alert)

1985 All The Time, All The Time, All The Time (Alert)

1987 Closer Together (Alert)

1990 The Pleasure And The Pain (Alert) [featuring 3 remixed bonus tracks by Martin Rushdent]

1992 Decade Of The Box (Alert)

Video clips
1984 Must I Always Remember
1984 L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say To Me)

1985 My Dreams Of You

1987 Closer Together

1990 Carry On

Must I always Remember is the video I rememeber

Zel, is any of the songs by The Box on Audiogalaxy? I would like to hear them.

I was able to get closer together and must I always remember on Kazaa

I got closer together off audio galaxy too. Thank you so much Cal I loved this band growing up and nobody up here remembers them. You think they would considering half this city is french.

I didn't know about Sass or MWH though, thanks for the info.

MWH is coming out with a new album!

I just found tons of The Box. You have to look for a few things

The Box just won't do it

type in: L'affaire Dumoutier
Box will come up - click on box not the song and you will get most of their songs

In the USA in the USSR is called Ordinary People :D I totally forgot about this song :)

Originally posted by Zel:
"walking, walking
on a tight rope of insanity...
walking, walking
on the verge....


"...On the verge of losing mind" I think. Sometimes things just don't work so well in translation. LOL.

We were just talking about boxes when I read this. We were discussing how we wake up and get into a box that takes us into another box where we sit all day until we climb in to another box which takes us back to a box where we go to sleep. Then we wake up and start again. :p

Don't mind me. I've been pinging and running NBTSTATs since 9:00 am. I am now completely stir crazy. I need a drink.

:D

Well aren't you the Boy in the Box :D

Well at least you got this manic monday out of the way (I'm on a roll). *shakes Bogie up a Pina Colada* maybe this will be better :)

Aaaaahhhh. I can't believe I walked right into a Corey Hart thing. Eyuch! :eek:

Thanks for the drink Zel.

I knew this was gonna be a bad day when I realized I'd left my pager and access cards at home.

I'm going to bed and I'm gonna pray that Tuesday is better than Monday was. :)

it's always better after a goodnight's sleep.. :p