Stanton Miranda

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Stanton Miranda (also recorded as Miranda Dali) is a Factory Records artist from New York City from the 1980s.^[1] She achieved some notice for her single "Wheels Over Indian Trails" (produced by Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert from New Order) and her later cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. She also led the band Thick Pigeon and guested on recordings by the Durutti Column. Her first band was CKM in New York with Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, where she played drums^[2].

She had a brief acting career, appearing in the Jonathan Demme films, Something Wild, Married to the Mob and Silence of the Lambs.

[edit] Stanton Miranda discography

Wheels Over Indian Trails (7", 12") (Factory Benelux FBN-44, 1986)
She's Lost Control / Love Will Tear Us Apart (7", CDS) (Hut Recordings 1995)
- "She's Lost Control" by Girls Against Boys

"Working Youth" - Just Another Asshole (LP) (Just Another Asshole, 1981)
"Caught", "Dream Back" - Pinpoints On A Nation (C60 cassette) (Fifth Column, 1984)
"Subway" - Crépuscule Collection 2: State Of Excitement (LP) (Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1986)
Psycho III (Music From The Motion Picture) (LP) (MCA Records 1986)
"Wheels Over Indian Trails" - Crépuscule Collection 4: Death Leaves An Echo (LP) (Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1987)
"Subway" Au Fur Et À Mesure ... (Crépuscule: 10 Years?) (CD) (Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1990)
"Paradise Passage Road" - Dry (LP, CD) (Materiali Sonori, 1992)
"Pope" - Young Popular And Sexy (LP) (Factory US FACTUS-17/Factory Australasia, 1987)
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - A Means To An End: The Music Of Joy Division (CD) (Hut Recordings, 1995)

"Wheels Over Indian Trails" - Four + One (VHS, NTSC compilation) (Factory US)
"Wheels Over Indian Trails" - Umbrellas In The Sun: A Crepuscule/Factory Benelux DVD 1979-1987 (DVD, NTSC) (Les Temps Modernes, 2005)

Miranda Dali (CD) (Les Disques Du Crépuscule TWI-938-2, 1991)^[4]
- Riding (3:19) / Amerika (3:41) / One (1:57) / Breathe (3:47) / Bird (2:00) / Gerty (3:32) / L.D. (3:39) / Angels (4:54) / Wrong (3:00) / St. G. (5:04)
- rereleased LTM 2004 as Thick Pigeon, with ten tracks by Thick Pigeon^[5]
Lo How (3:25) / Blue (2:27) / Happy Christmas (3:40) (CDS) (Darla.com, 2004)
- limited offer for darla.com customers in late 2004^[6]

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