The Pointed Sticks' one studio album is one of those pleasures that is utterly of its time as well as lasting beyond it -- not a bad legacy at all, considering the ups and downs the band went through to finally record it. Perfect Youth CD music To be fair, the giddy power pop style the quintet specialized in was fairly crowded and in ways Perfect Youth is less distinct than simply just what was needed. Gord Nichols' keyboards aren't anywhere near as frenetically insane as Barry Andrews' were for XTC, ...See Full Description
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MAKE UP THE BREAKDOWN, despite being Hot Hot Heat's first full-length album, is a bright, assured blast of fresh air that's at its dayglo best on tracks such as the tricky pop of "Naked in the City Again" and the ...
Perfect Youth album. Since its formation, the Minus 5 has been a supergroup of sorts, led by Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows/R.E.M. sideman) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.). As the title would suggest, they are joined this time around by all four members of ...
Perfect Youth music CDs. The absolute greatest from the late '70s & early '80s by this English new wave/ power pop outfit, including 'Back Of MyHand'. Contains all of the cuts from both of their albums --a total of 21 tunes. Spectrum. 2003.
Perfect Youth album. On-stage, the reunited Buzzcocks have been a consistently superb live act since Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle began making the rounds again in 1989, but the second edition of the band hasn't had quite the same degree of success in ...
Perfect Youth music CDs. Sundazed picks up its Garage Beat '66 series where it left off, with the fourth volume, subtitled I'm in Need!, following the same pattern as the first three, serving up 20 garage rock sides from the latter half of the ...
Perfect Youth songs. Although Vancouver's scene in the late '70s and early '80s was dominated by first-wave hardcore acts like D.O.A. and the Subhumans, the West Coast city's breakout new wave act was the altogether poppier Pointed Sticks. Although they only managed one ...
Perfect Youth CD music. Out-of-print in the US. Second solo album from the singer of New Kids On The Block. Featuring Dicio (keyboards, programming); Ryan Garner (programming); Michelle Gordon, Don Phillip, Matt Tucker, Charles Christopher (background vocals).
If you can't believe that major-label Columbia would ...
Perfect Youth songs. The valiant orchestral pop sound of the mid-'90s faded for no reason. Somehow, the ambitious scene just vanished, like a brief, bright comet. So bless Nancy, France's writer/arranger Mehdi Zannad for providing some mouth-to-mouth to the ailing, multi-faceted, layered form ...
Originally released in 1975 on the Lubbock-bred singer/songwriter/visual artist's own Fate label and reissued in the '90s by Sugar Hill, Terry Allen's first album bears the influences of fellow Lubbockites Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Joe Ely and of Californian adventurers Randy Newman and Little Feat, whose artsy folk-Western swing-R&B melange may be the album's nearest point of reference. Allen, at the time a teacher and artist-in-residence at California's Chouinard Institute, originally conceived JUAREZ as the soundtrack to an exhibit of lithographs. In fact, the struggling artist was only able to pay the studio musicians by giving them copies of the artwork. JUAREZ more than stands on its own merits as a concept album/morality play concerning two pairs of lovers on a southwestern killing spree. ...
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