― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)
Looking at the tracklisting for that title 'though, I reckon they could have made one absolute KILLER disc out of that, instead of one reasonably good and one rather patchy one.
The Drug Addix (featuring a very young Kirsty MacColl), Count Bishops, Gorillas, Johnny Moped, Nips (featuring a pre-Pogues Shane Macgowan), 101ers (featuring a pre-Clash Joe Strummer), Radiators (featuring a pre-Pogues Philip Chevron), Radio Stars (featuring a post-) TV Smith (ex Adverts)' Explorers, Sniff 'n' The Tears and of course it should go without saying The Damned's tracks are all good-to-great.
Also that "Saints And Sinners" track is almost certainly the first single by Johnny & The Self Abusers (who later evloved into Simple Minds) and that "Common Truth" is an Amazorblades single; both also pretty good.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)
any other suggestions for other good stuff from this era?
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00019FWQC/qid=1105113027/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-1255266-7334243
There are 3 Jesse Hector/H.Gorillas tracks on there, two of which are excruciatingly awful. The Ducks DeLuxe track is similarly dire. In fact the whole thing is a miserable experience, leading me to the conclusion that there are probably no undicovered gems on the pub-rock/pre-punk/glam interface. Some good band names though - Crushed Butler!
Good pub rock from Stiff - Lew Lewis Reformer (Win Or Lose), Nick Lowe (I Love my Label/So It Goes/Heart Of The City, Mickey Jupp, The Rumour without GP aren't bad.
Bad pub rock from Stiff - Kilburn and The high Roads, Roogalator's Cincinatti Fatback, Tyla Gang, Billy Bremner.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
!?!
actually, having been hunting down similar stuff lately, i think i know exactly what you mean
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
Surely Kilburn & The High Roads were signed (somewhat disaterously) to Warner Bros.?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)
"Cincinatti Fatback" is great, btw...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)
Lot of the same stuff, but it's shorter and older. You can probably find it used somewhere.
― Bren (Bren), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 8 January 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)
― everything, Monday, 10 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 January 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 30 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)
― don, Sunday, 30 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)