May 26, 2005
360s - Deadpan Superstar
The 360s are an obscure Boston quartet that I know very little about. This track is from their 1991 Illuminated EP and was recorded at the end of the Magnapop tape - see previous entry. They went on to record a couple of albums, but I never heard them and they don't show up on Amazon.
The C90 rating:
If this was available on Amazon I'd get it, but as it isn't I'll have to wait until I see it a second hand record store.
May 02, 2005
World Party - Give It All Away
Whatever happened to World Party? I figure I'll be saying that a lot with these tape entries.
Karl Wallinger was, as far as I could tell, World Party. Before that he was in the Water Boys (I forgot all about that). This track is from the third album, Bang!. I seem to remember that World Party had some kind of 'green' pretensions - perhaps most noticeable on Put the Message in a Box.
Anyways, I like the full on production on this track, its very layered, intense and quite mesmeric and Mr Wallinger sounds quite concerned about giving it all away.
Here is the website of World Party, but it seems unattended, deserted.
You may do better at All Music.
World Party - Give It All Way.mp3
The C90 rating:
Its good - but not enough to buy.
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