Post a Comment. The Selecter. Living In A Box. Tin Machine. Talk Talk. The Colour Field. Goodbye Mr MacKenzie.
The list of bands with eponymous songs is an unsurprisingly short one. It's surely a tougher thing to do when you're a solo artist, so kudos to Bo Diddley and two other nearly-made-its, Julian Cope's Julian H Cope his middle name's actually David and Mr Jeays by Philip Jeays , a songwriter and performer whose talent is only matched by his gobsmackingly inexplicable obscurity.
Anyway, in there was this proper eponysong, Immaculate Fools. They appeared out of nowhere and had the smell of a serious wedge of record company loot behind them. Beyond the big name techies there was the real mids sign of a Big Hype, the double pack 7 inch.
They were another of those bands who, like Bauhaus, Tubeway Army or Psychedelic Furs, made something decent out of having plainly spent their adolescence obsessing over Bowie. This may even have been a reason they went with producer Thurston. The song is a glorious pop swooner. The way it just rolls in from the intro, the stately glide, a little arty and knowing, somehow simultaneously contrived and effortless, graceful and swaggering, and a chorus that sticks in your head for days.
There is a video on Youtube, but I'd recommend just listening first. They look soooo 80s. Floppy fringe? Mullets, too many tom-toms, big glasses, peroxide? Yep, all there. It distracts from the real worth here, the richness of tone, the way the dry English voice cuts over the warm, woody soar of the chorus.
It scraped to number 51 in the charts, no other hits. A one-hit wonder I bought at the time and know very little about, but it still sounds great today and more people should hear it. Want even more fun? Four singles will be released before the album — one every month. Each single will feature a section of the album cover — a fantastic portrait of Kevin by Quim Cabeza. Suena fabuloso con toda la magia de la banda original actualizada para estos tiempos.
The whole thing hangs together really well. There is a coherence of production, playing and songwriting that has a mature quality that gives it that authentic ring of truth. There are no jarring elements or dubious playing.
Blanket Gentlemen Hold On Say Come Tomorrow Keep The Blade Sharp The Hunger Little Tickets Tumbling Down Save It Alternate Version Hearts Of Fortune Alternate Version Immaculate Fools Acoustic Version As The Crow Flies Never Give Less Than Everything Tragic Comedy One Minute Dumb Poet So Much Here Pretty Prize Now Stay Away Love Bites All I Want Is You Tragic Comedy Alternate Version All Fall Down Dumb Poet Live Falling Apart Together Early Version The Prince Radio Edit Will We Rise Last Time I Surrender Stand Down Edit Version Thanks, But No Thanks All In A Day Rain
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