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| 1. Up on Icing Sugar Mountain |
| 2. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. |
| 3. 20th Century Blues |
| 4. Tidal Wave |
| 5. The Devil's in League With You |
| 6. Caribb-Blu |
| 7. I'm Gonna Write a Musical |
| 8. Chain Smoking |
| 9. (Stayin' Outta) View |
| 10. Stop That Girl |
| 11. Nice on the Ice |
| 12. Holiday Hymn |
| 13. Ice on a Volcano |
| 14. Miss Sadie |
| 15. The Wave |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The quality of Vic's songwriting always assured that, despite a somewhat tinny sound to the original album release, T.R.O.U.B.L.E. remained a diamond in the rough of that bargain-basement decade - the eighties - just crying out to be dusted and polished. This was Vic's third studio album, following, in full swing, the now seemingly lost 'Songs For Sale', the album was in many ways a retreading of the musical grounds and themes of Vic's true masterpiece: 'What's The Matter, Boy?' In fact, the chorus of 'The Devil's In League With You' asks its tortured protagonist the selfsame question. Elsewhere, the cocktail-lounge ivory-tinkling of the profound 'Chainsmoking' belies the songs previous life as a full-on punk belter on the collection of singles and session tracks that was the Subway Sect 'Retrospective' released just prior to this album. What's more, 'Out Of Touch/View', from the first album, is resurrected here as a proto-sixties beat instrumental, like John Barry producing The Tornadoes (perhaps he did!). There is also a bossa-nova update of 'Stop That Girl', which perfectly suits the flavour of the day, but neither adds nor subtracts anything new from the brilliant original. However, the absolutely essential tracks here are the two Vic originals 'Tidal Wave' and 'Ice On A Volcano' and his incomparable take on Noel Coward's 'Twentieth Century Blues'. Pure heaven and all the evidence you need to realise how undervalued Godard really is, and where his place in the starry pantheon really ought to be assured. Even the frothy, almost throwaway, tracks like 'Holiday Hymn' and 'Nice On The Ice' are delivered with great panache. And a big thank you to the engineers who have discovered a funky guitar bubbling beneath the prescient 'I'm Gonna Write A Musical'. A great, essential British maverick classic: own it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If this CD is ever reissued you can bet the PC brigade will have airbrushed that cigarette out.
With a slew of Godard product on the market during the 90s it might have seemed that here was an artist who had been one of the big chart names especially as a couple of the CDs are compilations.
But in reality Vic Godard's Greatest Hits only happenned on the Indie charts.America has probably never heard of him and he will remain in that area marked UNDERRATED.
Godard rung the changes many times on his original albums and here with an instrumental called Vertical Integration he poaches on Edwin Astley territory-which figures I suppose as one of the early 80s songs he did -Spring is here-was a duet with Astley's daughter Virginia,herself a singer songwriter with a Cult following in Japan of all places!
With a slew of Godard product on the market during the 90s it might have seemed that here was an artist who had been one of the big chart names especially as a couple of the CDs are compilations.
But in reality Vic Godard's Greatest Hits only happenned on the Indie charts.America has probably never heard of him and he will remain in that area marked UNDERRATED.
Godard rung the changes many times on his original albums and here with an instrumental called Vertical Integration he poaches on Edwin Astley territory-which figures I suppose as one of the early 80s songs he did -Spring is here-was a duet with Astley's daughter Virginia,herself a singer songwriter with a Cult following in Japan of all places!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
How punk is it to turn your back on a genre that in so many ways you are a leading light to record a swing album? Welcome to the world of Vic Godard a wilful under-achiever in terms of stardom but never in terms of folowing his own star.
Subway Sect spotters will recognise "CHAINSMOKING" and "OUT OF TOUCH/VIEW" in forms you would not think possible and as for the version of "HOLIDAY HYMN" (previously 'borrowed' by ORANGE JUICE)... well smile or be damned!!
Magic moments abound (not least the self referencing refrain of "what's the matter boy?" on the wonderful "THE DEVIL'S IN LEAGUE WITH YOU") but regardless of novelty "MISS SADIE" is a startling song in anybody's book.
God bless you Vic for all the pleasure your wayward, sporadic musical output has given and although this is not the most crucial of artefacts (for me it would be the essential but sadly deleted compilation "20 ODD YEARS") it's a very interesting and bemusing point in a very interesting and bemusing career.
Subway Sect spotters will recognise "CHAINSMOKING" and "OUT OF TOUCH/VIEW" in forms you would not think possible and as for the version of "HOLIDAY HYMN" (previously 'borrowed' by ORANGE JUICE)... well smile or be damned!!
Magic moments abound (not least the self referencing refrain of "what's the matter boy?" on the wonderful "THE DEVIL'S IN LEAGUE WITH YOU") but regardless of novelty "MISS SADIE" is a startling song in anybody's book.
God bless you Vic for all the pleasure your wayward, sporadic musical output has given and although this is not the most crucial of artefacts (for me it would be the essential but sadly deleted compilation "20 ODD YEARS") it's a very interesting and bemusing point in a very interesting and bemusing career.
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