FOR ONCE I'M LOST FOR WORDS
I'm really touched that so many of you passed on birthday greetings....
All I can do is offer up as a way of thank you, three great pop dittys from the 1990s that should have been massive hits, but thanks to the fickle public, have been left to languish in semi-obscurity.
mp3 : Blink - Happy Day
mp3 : Family Gotown - Box
mp3 : The Frank & Walters - Fashion Crisis Hits New York
I posted the Blink track a long while back on TVV, but I thought that as I've got quite a few newer readers who would have missed out first time round, it's worth another posting. It's a single that came out in 1994 and was a big hit for the band in their native Ireland. I have to admit that I thought the band had long broken up, but it seems they are still going strong as can be read right here.
I couldn't find anything about Family Gotown other than this small entry that has been penned by their guitarist Brian Smith. If anyone can add anything more, I'd be delighted to hear from them.
The Frank and Walters are another band from Ireland, but this time from the south-west city of Cork. They were one of my favourite groups to emerge in the early 90s, a really energetic and fun live act as well, and the song I've put up is the main track of their debut EP which came out on Setanta Records in September 1991 and was produced by Dave Couse of A House.
The band were signed to Go Discs in the UK, and were teamed up with the legendary Edwyn Collins to record the debut LP Trains, Boats and Planes that came out in June 1992. A number of the earlier tracks were re-recorded for the LP, including Fashion Crisis..., but I'm sad to say that Edwyn failed to capture the band at their best and the LP is a bit disappointing. Indeed it took the magic of Ian Broudie to remix an LP track - After All - to give the band their one and only UK Top 20 hit.
Still going strong today, the band gave a UK release of their latest LP, A Renewed Interest In Happiness, back in March 2007. The excellent official site can be found here.
You can try e-bay for all of these releases if you're so inclined. Good luck.
10 comments:
And verily it was surely 1992 when we made our way to see the Frank and Walters in King Tuts. Their support was some band with dodgy haircuts - Radiohead or something, I seem to recall. I wonder whatever happened to them.
Jacques the Kipper
Big Thanks !!
I was going to say Happy Birthday but it kept accidentally morphing into Haha - you old bastard! Meant in a kind way, obviously. But perhaps not so suitable for someone's special day.
Just caught you bday announcement .. congrats on catching up .. When we were teens in '77 a 44 year old was a person born in 1933.
Oh, thanks for the Blink track. I always thought it deeply unfair that their only claim to fame in America is being that band that Blink 182 stole their name from.
where do you get your clip art? Quite charming.
jeff in chicago
Okay...now the gloves are off. AC with the 1933 comment. Now my day OFFICALLY sucks. And to think..I was dumb enough to reproduce. I'm gonna be carting kids to the "nickelodeon" and having to turn down the victrola forever DAMNIT> Little league games..I'' be the old fart in the walker (or better yet, I'll abe driving one of those little battery scooter). My god...help us all.
jeff again
Ha ha you old bastard is probably about right.....
And I used to do the backwards counting thing. I stopped as it only depressed me. For instance -it's now 30 years since punk became a mass movement in the UK. Go back 30 years and it was still rationing post WWII.
Jeff - most of the art comes from combing around www.flickr.com.
Good point Jacques. I think Radiohead broke up a few years ago and now most of them earn their living as a Pink Floyd tribute band. Or am I thinking of Carter USM???
am i the only person on TVV that doesn't spell check or is everyone else the most precise group of typist in the world
jeff in a hurry
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