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Can't Stand The Rezillos
(Sire 1978)
The album is an absolute
classic. There's hardly a gap between songs and they come
thick and fast with re-recorded versions of Good
Sculptures, TOTP and I Cant Stand My Baby....buy it
or steal it.
The band hated
it...Hated being sent to America to record, hated 24 track recording,
hated their producer Tony Bongiovi and ended up hating their
record label. Listening to it even now I love it still.
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"The guy who
produced the album is American and hasn't got a clue about what
British new wave is about...Some of the album tracks definitely
suffer from being played too fast...he kind of thought that if
you play it fast its new wave."
Eugene Sounds 29.7.78
"The best
sound we ever got was in an eight track studio, producing
ourselves. That cost £150 to do."
Fay
RM 9.12.78 |
This review
from Amazon says it all!
"If you never saw
the Rezillos live, you can now (partly) redeem yourself with this
album. They were the absolute peak of what was great about punk. None
of your angst-ridden, political nonsense here - just a superb and
exciting, pulsating vision of everything that was good about punk's
high-voltage energy and very little that was bad. They deserved to be
far more popular than they were and this album is the best way to
catch a glimpse of a bygone age. It's utterly mad, the music is crazed
and addictive. It's happy music, and that's why the Rezillos were
sneered at by many of the punk cognoscenti. They were sooo wrong.
Don't expect to
be put right about unemployment, fascism or anything else of whatever
was bothering the spotted masses back then. Just clear the room of
loose objects and prepare to move bits of your body very quickly. I
just can't stop playing it - and to think it's 25 years since I last
sweated it out with the Rezillos!" |
