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The good the not bad and the plain ugly,
By Richard "Alice Collector" (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Fine Day and a Brilliant Evening: Cherry Red Rarities 1983-1985 (Audio CD)
Cherry Red is today a giant reissue label which began in the early 80s with stuff the majors would never have touched.Amongst the many labels they own is the actual Cherry Red one which reissues their own product and makes compilations like this one with 3 acts-Jane & Barton,Grab Grab The Haddock and In Embrace
Jane & Barton are the most mysterious-in spite of the Great Indie Discography informing the reader they were a spin off from the Marine Girls this is pretty unlikely and its also info which has never appeared anywhere else.What the single Its A Fine Day represnts is probably the most unlikely hit on any chart let alone the Indie one as its the voice of what sounds like a 12 year old child accompanied only by the wind.The follow up however DID have a couple of instruments from A Certain ratio which tells you that this "act" was from Manchester."Barton" the writer was a well known Manchester eccentric who designed T Shirts,made some totally unlistenable albums of his own and eventually began making some real money when It's A Fine Day was discovered by Pete Waterman in the 90s who did a version by Kisty Hawkshaw as Opus 3.The real Jane-who had also been All Of My Life on another Manchester label-resurfaced as Miss Jane and made her own version.Its no doubt proved Cherry Red's biggest copyright. This CD includes the Jane & Barton music video first used on Pillows & Prayers as well as the mini album made as Jane & Barton which shows as its sleeve a very young Jane as if to emphasise her childish voice and it was also where the name "tweepop" began.Jane was though a full blooded adult shown in the vidoe with her own child and wearing a 50s style dress as she wandered around the garden. The mini album though was not very good as it managed to include Edward Barton's atrocious singing on one song though the horrible remix by A Guy Called Gerald of It's A Fine Day ought to have been left off No such mysteries however surrounded the other 2 groups on here-the Marine Girls spin off Grab Grab The Haddock (named for a painting seen in an art gallery and a name which was nominated as Worst Band Name) and In Embrace who charted nowhere but who sounded like London's answer to Liverpool's Pale Fountains
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Grab Grab The What?,
By yipyipcoyote - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Fine Day and a Brilliant Evening: Cherry Red Rarities 1983-1985 (Audio CD)
More dreamy willowy pop of yesteryear from the vaults of Cherry Red. A more esoteric and better produced selection than the other compilation 'Our Brilliant Careers' which is shoddy in places. The juxtaposition of the three artists here seems coincidental, yet they successfully present different facets of the sound of the label during the early 80's.
Jane & Barton starts with the acapella 'It's A Fine Day' which was later turned into the Opus III dancefloor smash. The remix by A Guy Called Gerald here has a harder and less commercial sound. Quite good. Flute and percussion accompany Jane on 'I Want To Be With You' to nice pastoral effects a la Virginia Astley, although the latter would have never named one of her songs 'Ha Bloody Ha', which poses such thought-provoking questions as "Did you hear about the woman who died" or "What part of a vegetable can't you eat". Simple voice and piano arrangement on 'There Is A Man' and 'You Are Over There' makes ideal lazy afternoon listening, only to be rudely disturbed by Mr.Barton's grating screech on 'You Are Over There Part Two'. Onto the marvellously named Grab Grab The Haddock, which included two of the three Marine Girls after Tracey Thorn went on to form Everything But The Girl. They pretty much carried on with the style of their previous band, only now augmented to a four-piece. Lightweight summery guitar pop, the stuff that Cherry Red is famous for. In Embrace played moody melodic pop with guitar and synths. Although once described as 'introverted and emotionally unfathomable' the songs are actually quite classy and the sentiments deeply felt. 'The Darkest Horse' features a spine-tingling chord progression slightly reminiscent of the Cocteaus. They should have been big. The CD ends with a bonus video of 'It's A Fine Day'. Hmm... now that's why she sounds so lonely.. |
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