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Opus 33 1/3
Edits: 12/07/16Follow Ups:
180g 2LP set. Nicely produced & beautiful pressing by MPO pressing plant in France. Discs are flat as a pancake & very quiet surface. Not really confident who mastered it for vinyl. It says Ron McMaster in the liner notes, but you usually see "RM" in deadwax, which is not there, but maybe. SQ is excellent. Love the album. Stones going back to their blues roots. Eric Clapton plays on two tracks. Well done.
Jim
"If less is more, just think how much more more would be!" - Frasier Crane.
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Russco Studio Pro B/Syntec S220/Empire 2000E/3-Technics SL1210mkII/DL103R/Yam C-4 pre-Yam M-4 amp-KLH 5 spkrs-Outlaw sub
Mercury SR 90174 Mendelssohn conducted by Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony. Nice original RFR-1 pressing.
David Crosby and a cast of thousands. Atlantic - SD 7203
Edits: 12/07/16
Listened to that first record with "Johnny...Come Home" and the "Suspicious Minds" cover over-and-over again Freshman year of college. They were a cool band.. Part Jazz combo, part Ska, seemed super contemporary in a way. Wasn't the bulk of the band the former Ants from Adam & the Ants?
The group was formed in 1984 after the dissolution of The Beat, with whom guitarist Andy Cox and bassist David Steele previously played.[1] The duo of Steele and Cox spent eight months listening to over 500 cassettes of potential singers before settling on Gift. They had difficulty obtaining a record contract but when a video of their song "Johnny Come Home" appeared on British TV show The Tube, recording contract offers flowed in immediately.[5] The band's eponymous debut album was released in 1985, spawning two UK hit singles, "Johnny Come Home" and a cover of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" featuring additional vocals by Jimmy Somerville.[2] These two songs also became hits internationally, charting in the top 40 in Europe, Canada and Australia, although they failed to make a significant impact on the US charts.
Fine Young Cannibals appeared as the house band in a nightclub in the 1987 comedy film Tin Men, set in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 1963. In the gap between their first and second albums, Steele and Cox released an instrumental house single under the moniker Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet in 1988, called "Tired Of Getting Pushed Around", which reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart and was popular on the U.S. dance chart. During this time, Gift appeared in the movie Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.
The band continued their international success with the singles "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing", from the 1989 album The Raw & the Cooked. The latter song was their second U.S. number one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. It also peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.[6] The Raw & the Cooked included three songs the band had recorded for Tin Men (including "Good Thing"), and their cover of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" recorded for the film Something Wild.[2
Opus 33 1/3
The English Beat.
Acoustic Citsuoca Live at the Startime Pavilion October 31st.
Sim
I was just spinning those night before last, Henry. Wonder whatever became of Roland? I saw them at an outdoor concert in Dallas back in the day. Was a very good show as I recall.
They were a bar band in the movie and by the end of "She Drives Me Crazy" I knew I had to find their album.
They only did two, the ST debut and The Raw and the Cooked.
Evidently Gift is still active as a solo act.
Opus 33 1/3
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