Where is the apathy and disrespect for GASOLIN?

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Can't even remember the US record label that issued Gasolin in the early 70's. Ads in rock mags proclaimed them Denmark's finest. One of their records, amusingly named, got an -A- from Christgau, according to this lore:

2 CD-box from 2002 consisting of 2 english language records: "The Last Jim" and "What a Lemon."

Theese recordings were also released in Denmark in Danish as Stakkels Jim and Gas 5. Robert Christgau gave a cut on the first record the character "A" in his book Christgaus Rockguide.
Despite good rewiews, Gasolin never got a breaktrough in the USA.

"What a Lemon" sold about 20.000 in USA. Dissapointing, compared to what Gasolin sold in Denmark.

http://www.karma.dk/gasuk.htm

― George Smith, Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

And here it is ---

GASOLIN': Gasolin' (Epic) This wonderfully improbable record may signal a new movement--here comes the Copenhagen Sound. Would it were true. The LP compiles the best material from three Danish albums--which means not only released in Denmark but sung in the native language of that funky land, with translations provided in part by an Epic PR man who deserves a new job ... A - .

― George Smith, Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a double live album which is quite enjoyable (played it last month, actually, and it has at least as much Slade as prog in it -- also, they use a different alphabt sometimes!); don't know if I ever heard the one Xgau writes about above. Didn't the frontman go on into some new wavish band that got reviewed affirmatively in NY Rocker once? Or maybe not.

― chuck, Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No clue. Saw the "Gasolin" record when it came out in '78, never bought a copy or knew anyone who had. Absolutely no idea what they sounded like but if Slade-ish figures in there, you have my attention.

― George Smith, Saturday, 26 February 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a couple of their albums. "Mamma CuCu" from "Efter Endnu En Dag" (CBS) is sort of worth hearing. One of their album covers

http://home2.inet.tele.dk/garde/gas3.htm

appears to be by Art Frahm, which has to count for something.

(http://lileks.com/institute/frahm/faq.html)

― dlp9001, Sunday, 27 February 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck, I taped you the Xgau pick, back in '87, but the tape probably didn't sound so hot. Great album, though, we'uns used to play it at parties in the 70s alla time.

― don, Sunday, 27 February 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Revive, 'cause this thread inspired me to get off my butt and put together the tribute to Efter Endnu En Dag that I've been planning for ages, complete w/mp3s:

http://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2005/03/anytime-you-start-to-think-that.html

It's a follow-up (in a way) to Queen's A Night At The Opera, if that helps any with the apathy!

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed!

― don, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

kim larsen's drummer once drummed with sonny sharrock! and i know i saw larsen play danmark's smukkeste festival in skanderborg back in '95, and i think gasolin played too, but as this was my first danish orgy experience as an exchange student, i don't remember much more than that.

oh procul harum played and that was kinda awesome.

/nostalgic spazzout

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Wonder if they're still recording and/or liveing and/or living? Must check.

― don, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

They're on US Spotify! Bow down before the Danish Beatles!

http://open.spotify.com/album/6JwaJ1ZzlVrqF73mo1q7zN

― dlp9001, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

I should really make a playlist, but for now Mama Cucu, Twilight Birds, This Is My Song, Stop, and of course....It Was Inga, Katinka, and Groovy Charlie on his Harley.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

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