I was a weird 80s kid. I was more into 50s rock'n'roll and rockabilly than whatever the other class mates listened to. So this one, I got on cassette (original cassette, mind you, not copy!) some time between 1985 and 1989. Together with Chuck Berry, Bill Haley was one of the most influential rock artists of his time, also paving the way for other white folks, like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, doing what they did.
I love this 1985 album - the sleak production values, the melodies, the beats. But I can never get over how different Moroder looks on the cover, clean-shaven and young. He basically looks like Thomas Jane, so I think of him every time I play it.
45 is young! (this is from someone who turned 47 four days ago).
Yes and no to the compilation question. He often "repackaged" his songs in studio albums at the time. So you have "Baby Blue" appearing here again (with a male vocalist), "The Chase" in a new version, "From Here to Eternity" in a new version etc. Many of the songs are performed by Paul Engemann, famous for "Push it to the Limit" (curiously not on the album), but then basically not heard from again.
45 is young! (this is from someone who turned 47 four days ago).
Yes and no to the compilation question. He often "repackaged" his songs in studio albums at the time. So you have "Baby Blue" appearing here again (with a male vocalist), "The Chase" in a new version, "From Here to Eternity" in a new version etc. Many of the songs are performed by Paul Engemann, famous for "Push it to the Limit" (curiously not on the album), but then basically not heard from again.
Jim is going to get his knickers in a twist again, because this is neither pop nor rock. It is, however, one of the cornerstones of psytrance, released in 1995. Probably shared it in the thread before, so for that I'm sorry. Simon Posford gets to be a little more hardhitting than he is in Shpongle. There's a great, lean quality to this music, as opposed to the lusher sound the genre would eventually take (which I also like, but there's something about the immediacy of this).
During those long-ago COVID lockdowns, I became obsessed with Russian and Eastern European "Doomer" music, though that fascination evaporated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Still, as my enemies will attest, you can't keep Jim Phelps down forever, so I'm back in the fold.
The song's rapidfire "BabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBabyBaby" break is why Devo's version smashes the overplayed and creaky-sounding Rolling Stones original though I give mucho respect to the oldsters for having scratched out the song to begin with.
This was my fave of theirs for decades, and I didn't think anyone else liked it, but this video has 279k views in just three years, so it's not just me.
