one of you crusty punk survivors around here, please tell me more about THE SHAPES?!?!?

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ok, between their bio on this site (comparing them to the swell maps and television personalities) and their AMG bio, i am intrigued. it also doesn't hurt that called billy idol a tosser!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

and this album looks REAL cool:

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/shapescover.JPG

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

They released an EP containing a rather jolly little number called "What's For Lunch Mum (Not Beans Again)?" (as I recall one of the other tracks was "I Saw Batman In The Launderette) which John Peel played to death for a couple of months.

The follow-up "Airline Disaster" was OK but didn't grab people like the first one.

A lot more Television Personalities than Swell Maps - but reallt more power-pop than anything.

I rather suspect that the album was a posthumous release.

Billy Idol was (and I imagine still is) a tosser.

Who are you calling "crusty"?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Who are you calling "crusty"?

just joking!

(and thanx for answering)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Classic.. The first Shapes single was one of the best early pop-punk records.. Gonna play it when i get home tonite

now i've got "Batman in the launderette" in my head.. aaarrgh!

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't this on one of those Cherry Red compilations?

But never mind all that, have a history...
http://puritycontrol.com/shapes/history1.html

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 April 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

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