Sticks, Pointed - Waiting For The Real Thing CD Cover Art

Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing CD


Our Price: $13.59 For Sale Usually ships in 1-2 days (Only 2 available)
MP3 Album Price: $10.89 Compatible with all MP3 players including iPod, iPad, iTunes and Window Media Player

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 album, 1980s Perfect Youth (itself recently reissued by Joey Keithley's Sudden Death label), the quartet released a long string of singles for the pioneering U.K. indie Stiff Records, all of which are collected here along with outtakes and rarities. Waiting for the Real Thing is an exhilarating blast of organ-fueled power pop, the perfect triangulation point between the the Flamin' Groovies' tuneful British Invasion knockoffs, Squeeze's manic, lyrically quirky early phase, and the revved-up angularity of Barry Andrews-era XTC. Nearly every song is a winner, and even the few weaker efforts get by on giddy enthusiasm. Songs like "New Ways" and "Somebody's Mom" are exactly the kind of fresh, spirited pop that modern-day bands like Hot Hot Heat and the Killers never manage to drop the attitude long enough to achieve, and Waiting for the Real Thing is a textbook of how to write should-have-been new wave hits. ~ Stewart Mason

Recording information: England (03/1979-??/1980); Rohan's Pub (03/1979-??/1980); Sabre Sound (03/1979-??/1980); Sculptures In Sound (03/1979-??/1980).

Photographers: Stephen Macklam; Bevan Davies.

Personnel: Robert Bruce, Ian Tiles (drums).

Liner Note Author: Phil Smith.

Waiting For The Real Thing Music

List Price	$14.97 (You save $1.38)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Punk, Power Pop, Rock, Children's
Label	Sudden Death
Orig Year	2006
All Time Product Rank	319,814
CD Universe Part number	7107407
Catalog number	20065
Discs	1
Release Date	May 09, 2006
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Bob Rock; Chris Cutress; Dale Wiese (Compilation); Dale Wiese (Compilation)
Engineer	Bob Rock; Ron Obvious
Personnel	Ian Tiles - drums Robert Bruce

Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing Songs

Trk	Song	Price
1	What Do You Want Me To Do?		$0.99
2	Somebody's Mom		$0.99
3	Real Thing		$0.99
4	Out of Luck		$0.99
5	Lies		$0.99
6	I'm Numb		$0.99
7	It's O.K.		$0.99
8	All I Could Take		$0.99
9	How Could You?		$0.99
10	Apologies		$0.99
11	Marching Song		$0.99
12	True Love		$0.99
13	New Ways		$0.99
14	All That Matters		$0.99
15	Love or Money		$0.99
16	Witch		$0.99
17	Real Thing		$0.99
18	You Must Be Crazy		$0.99
19	Care Less		$0.99
20	Worse		$0.99
21	Middle Age Teenagers / No More Love		$0.99
22	Found Another Boy		$0.99
23	Middle Class		$0.99
24	Automatic You		$0.99

Waiting For The Real Thing Review

Guidelines
Remember to focus your comments on Pointed Sticks - Waiting For The Real Thing CD.
Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy.

To submit your review, please fill out the above form and click "Submit Review." A staff member will then verify your review meets our guidelines. Upon approval, your review will be published within a few days.

Please do not use this form to comment on web site errors or for order related questions. If you have concerns of this nature, please contact customer service by filling out this form.

Purchase Waiting For The Real Thing CD

To buy, Click on price to add to cart

Also Bought

Chris Stamey
Question Of Temperature CD (2005) Audio Samples

	$15.09
	$8.99

Also Bought

Good Girls Go Bad: Wild, Weird & Wanted CD (2004) (Import)

$19.05

Also Bought

Diodes
Tired Of Waking Up Tired: The Best Of The Diodes CD (1998) 3 stars

(Import)

$12.79

Also Bought

Rattlers
Rattled! CD (1985) Audio Samples

$11.49

Also Bought

Perfect Youth CD (1980) Audio Samples

	$13.59
	$10.89

Also Bought

Hammersmith Gorillas
Gorilla Got Me CD (1999) Audio Samples

(Import)

$18.49

Other Ideas

Leon Redbone
Sugar CDs (1991) Audio Samples

Reissue

	$11.99
	$9.99

Other Ideas

Eddi Reader
Live: Newcastle, Uk 24.05.03 CDs (2005) Audio Samples

Check Availability

Other Ideas

Helvetia
Clever North Wind CD (2006) Audio Samples

$12.79

Other Ideas

Dave Matthews Band
Under The Table And Dreaming CD (1994) 5 stars

$14.85

Other Ideas

Billy Vaughn
Theme From A Summer Place/Theme From The Sundowners CD (2006) 4 stars

Check Availability

Other Ideas

Reginald Nel
The Gift CD (2006)

$15.05

Add to WishList

Share this Product

1.	Different Kind Of Truth Van Halen
2.	Different Kind Of Truth Van Halen
3.	21 Adele
4.	Old Ideas Leonard Cohen
5.	Kisses On The Bottom Paul McCartney

›All Time Top Sellers

This Week

1.	Best Of The Best: 25 Greatest Hits Gene Watson
2.	Romance Language Kirk Whalum
3.	Axeology: 1979-2001 Axe
4.	Complete Greatest Hits Of Manfred Mann Manfred Mann (Group) / Manfred Mann
5.	Todd Rundgren: Todd Todd Rundgren

Next Week

1.	Rockpalast: Ian Hunter Ian Hunter
2.	Electric Sea Buckethead
3.	Michael Schenker Group: Rockpalast - Hardrock Lege Michael Schenker Group
4.	Scorpions: Live In 3D - Get Your Sting & Blackout Scorpions
5.	In Concert Blood, Sweat, and Tears