Flash and the Pan: C or D, S/D?

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So I came to hear Flash & the Pan as quite a lot of people do through Grace Jones' cover of "Walking in the Rain." I forgot about it for a while until I heard the original version a couple of years ago and was struck by how fucking weird it was. Is anything else in their catalog like this? Should I bother with tracking down albums? Information online is surprisingly scant.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

i always liked 'ayla' which i first heard when i was young. i assume you're aware of their history?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Unless you mean the AC/DC connection, nope.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

they used to be half the easybeats!

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

anyway the one album i have has very dated production but the songs aren't half bad. i need to hear it again though..

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

omg there were SO many copies of the album in the second-hand stores in sydney.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 9 October 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

really hot amongst the beardo set.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 9 October 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

I'd say mainly dud, even though the "telephone voice" has become influential on Strokes and Franz Ferdinand to name but a few.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

"Hey St.Peter" is great! i confess that when i pull that album out i usually play that song and then put it away again, but i do like the album. there is more weird stuff on it too, and it is a dollar on vinyl world-wide.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Waiting For A Train - classic. It even got a spin on Chris Evans' drive-time show on R2 the other week.

Here's a little more info on them:

http://members.lycos.nl/Vaipen/Flash/flashindex.html

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

just picked up the self titled album for 2 bucks and thought i was only gonna like Walking In The Rain, but the whole thing so far is really fucking good.

― jaxon, Thursday, 9 August 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

They are terrific - and underrated.

― moley, Thursday, 9 August 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

I love them. Especially California. Dude has a great sing-speak voice.

― mizzell, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I also like Love is in the Air by some Scottish guy named Young, though apparently not related, which they produced.

― mizzell, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Walking In the Rain" is the stuff of brilliance.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have come around to madly loving this, especially "The African Shuffle."

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Walking In the Rain" (which is still really good) is, at best, the fourth-best song on their debut album, behind "Man in the Middle," "Lady Killer," and the immortal "Hey St. Peter." ("California" is about equal with "Walking," I'd say. Sixth place = "The African Shuffle" or "First and Last".)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I also like Love is in the Air by some Scottish guy named Young, though apparently not related, which they produced.

john paul young. no-one in australia really ever needs to hear this again ever ever ever, but it is quite good.

you all seem to be forgetting 'midnight man'!!

― haitch, Monday, 13 August 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for what it's worth, this is the ugliest CD packaging I have ever seen:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f980/f98095kkuu7.jpg

I mean, Christ, is that Comic Sans?!

― Telephone thing, Monday, 13 August 2007 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

I love "Midnight Man" so much.

― Tim F, Monday, 13 August 2007 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Media Man" as well.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 13 August 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have the "Waiting for a Train" 12 inch and it is great.

― Michael F Gill, Monday, 13 August 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

C., and very dear to my heart. One of the 1st bands I ever considered mine - along with Cheap Trick & The Knights in Satan's Service.

1st LP is great all the way through. Lights In the Night is darker, but still damn good. Headlines has a few keepers.

― Bob Standard, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Okay, I was totally wrong (Bob = me). Bought a two-dollar copy of the debut the other day, just for the hell of it. It's far from classic. The stuff I loved way back when sounds incredibly grating now: "Hey St. Peter" & "Ladykiller" being prime offenders. The more moody, downbeat quasi-funk tracks are pretty okay, though. Oddy enuf, that's the stuff I didn't like as a kid. Wonder if I'd like Lights In the Night and Headlines now? I remember them being darker, less comical/ingratiating.

― contenderizer, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

midnight man has been my jam recently

― max, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Are any of these Vanda and Young songs from the early 70s worth tracking down?

Paintbox "Get Ready For Love" (1970)
Tramp "Vietnam Rose" (1970
Eddie Avana "Children" (1970)
Moondance "Lazy River" (1970, A&M Records)
Grapefruit "Sha-Sha" (1971, Deram Records)
Haffy's Whiskey Sour "Shot in the Head" (1971, Deram)
Band of Hope "Working Class People" (1972, unreleased)
Marcus Hook Roll Band "Natural Man"
Marcus Hook Roll Band "Louisiana Lady"
Marcus Hook Roll Band "Can't Stand the Heat"

― mizzell, Thursday, 29 October 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Man, I had never to my knowledge really heard of these guys. What a weird musical footnote.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 December 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

Midnight Man is one of my all time favourite songs

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Sunday, 4 December 2016 17:13 (nine years ago)

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