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When SOLID PLEASURE first hit the racks in the early 1980s (on the Residents' very own Ralph Records label), few were prepared. The bizarre trio, comprising electronics maven Boris Blank, guitarist/sound sampler Carlos Peron, and Swiss wacko Dieter Meier, was a breath of fresh air in the moribund synth-pop scene. Opening with the ping-pong analog funk of "Bimbo," an utterly original panoply of sounds ran throughout the record's two sides like some mysterious serpent twisting its way into the jungle underbrush. Simply put, you've never heard anything quite like it.
You might call the catchy gurgling electronic beats and wheezing sounds of "Blue Green" synth-pop, but if this is popular music then we need to re-evaluate Stockhausen's catalog. However, SOLID PLEASURE is indeed pop; there's a strange accessibility to this kaleidoscope of intangible sounds and rhythms. Oddball, obscure, obtuse--acquiring SOLID PLEASURE will convince even the most jaded '80s throwback that there was some integrity to that discombobulated time.
Additional TracksMojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Their least conventional album, it sounds as simultaneously out of time and novel as it ever did." Yello Solid Pleasure Songs Solid Pleasure Review
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Purchase Solid Pleasure CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Yello Claro Que Si CD (1981) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
Solid Pleasure
 $10.45
Yello made almost made techno-noir an early-'80s catchphrase, but their music was too adventurous, even for the hardcore techno aesthetes of that decade. CLARO QUE SI, the follow-up to the enigmatic SOLID PLEASURE, revels more in the dance floor, and begins the logical progression towards the arch-synthpop Yello would champion years later.
Many of the tracks ...
| | Yello One Second CD (1987)
Solid Pleasure
$9.69  
Yello began a flirtation with a mutant form of Brazilian and Latin music, incorporating their trademark otherworldliness and staunch rhythms on STELLA, but the interstellar samba is in full force on ONE SECOND. "La Habanera" is five minutes of Sun Ra meets Jaoa Gilberto in the rainforest jamming to Kraftwerk, while ...
| | Yello Stella CD (1985) (Import) United Kingdom
Solid Pleasure
$9.85
Yello exploded like the sun with STELLA, their claim to big-time fame. Dieter Meier and Boris Blank's modus operandi was creating a sophisticated type of dance music that managed to have wide appeal without sacrificing its strangeness. Meier's vocals, often more songspiel than singing, jump from film noir and back again. From the twinkling starlight, disco grooves of "Vicious Games" and "Domingo," to the shuffling synthesizers and air of menace broached on "Desire," Meier's vocals suggest more than a whiff of panther-esque sexuality.
Of course, STELLA's piece de ...
| | Yello You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess CD (1983) (Import) Bonus Tracks; United Kingdom
Solid Pleasure
$11.69
Yello were right on the cusp of greatness when YOU GOTTA SAY YES hit the bins. They had already separated from their indie roots by moving over from Ralph to the high-profile Mercury Records, and their music was becoming something of an underground cult in clubs and on stereos worldwide. Looking at the track's titles, one might think that Yello had lost their idiosyncratic sting while opting for commercial acceptance.
Bite your tongue--when Dieter Meier sings "I Love You," his voice is acerbic, mocking, and dripping with irony as the weird, bubbling electronics percolate over a faux-disco beat. If anything, the rhythm tracks are somewhat more standardized, but Peron and Blank hadn't lost their ability to surprise. ...
| | Naked/Kissing The Pink CD (2006)
Solid Pleasure
$10.49
First off, the name -- the sexual innuendo implied in the band's moniker, Kissing the Pink -- surely races to the surface, but the truth of the matter is that the name is derived from a snooker/billiards reference to a weak shot; the innuendo was just a lucky coincidence. The band certainly lost more than they gained from the cross-referencing. Their music had very little to do with overt sexuality, but that name (coupled with some decidedly unsettling album artwork) didn't help the group's cause with record labels or the general public -- yet those who heard the music before registering the images and name were the luckiest of new wavers in 1983. Kissing the Pink's debut album, Naked, followed in the grand tradition of eccentric art-school collectives like Deaf School -- pulling influences (and members) from all over the map, without a care for fashionability or marketability and, ultimately, giving rise to an album that sounds little like anything else created before or since. Long out of print and scarcely available in the digital realm, Naked was coveted well past its expiration date. Obscure CD releases of the album in Germany and Japan were fetching upwards of $200, and bootlegs were filling the luxury gap in droves. And so, it was with great relief to Kissing the Pink's scattered fans that CD reissue label Wounded Bird stepped up to the plate in 2006 with their edition of Naked -- repackaged with the band's self-titled EP as a bookend. Despite a few overlapping tracks, this two-fer is the best legitimate release any ...
| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
Solid Pleasure
$19.79 
The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac's success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. "Hot Summers Day" is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham's gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie's tunes with her adventures, bringing an important change of pace to that popular band's hits. The jacket looks like a dusty old family album-style book holding Kirwan's Second Chapter. And the music reflects that old-world feel in titles like "Skip a Dee Doo" and "Falling in Love with You." Three of the best songs on this excellent outing are "Love Can Always Bring You Happiness," "Second Chapter," and a sleepy and beautiful ...
| | Richie Milton Straight Ahead No Stoppin' CD (1998)
Solid Pleasure
$9.75
| | Luciano Live In San Francisco CD (2006) Bonus DVD; Remastered
Solid Pleasure
$11.25 
| | Marcelo D2 Meu Samba E Assim CD (2006) (Import)
Solid Pleasure
$21.99
| | Shawn Lov Waiting For A Ghost CD (2007) (Import)
Solid Pleasure
$39.39
| | Song Game Of Life CD (2007)
Solid Pleasure
$12.65
| | Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho Animation Soundtrack CD (2007) (Import)
$49.95 | | U Roy Dread In A Babylon CD (1975) (Import) United Kingdom
Solid Pleasure
$7.35
The flourishes of sound manipulation throughout DREAD IN A BABYLON make it obvious why U Roy is considered the man who established the role of the DJ in reggae and Western pop music. But what gives the album its staying power is the passion that he brings to his singing and toasting.
U Roy's ad-libbed additions--whether in peals of song or spurts of rapid-fire toasting--to "Runaway Girl," "Chalice in the Palace," and "I Can't Love Another" work a laid-back, amorous vein. Those of "Dreadlocks Dread," "The Great Psalms," and "African Message" are more heated, ...
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