The 4 Skins: A Few 4 Skins
More Volume 2 (Contains "From Chaos to 1984" and "Rarities" albums)
The 4 Skins: A Few 4 Skins
More Volume 2 (Contains "From Chaos to 1984" and "Rarities" albums)
History: Originally Released by Link Currently licensed to Step-1, Get Back of Italy has re-released "From Chaos to 1984"
Info: The First disc, "From Chaos to 1984" features the final line up of the 4 Skins doing their swansong live gig. The band covers all the classics made famous from all their previous line-ups. And boy is it good! The second disc "Rarities" chronicles the band's Bumper Studio demos, b-sides, alternate takes, limited releases and complilation cuts from their 3 line ups. This Includes an awesome Slade cover "Merry Xmas Everybody" with a rockin piano hiding in the back. Basically all the tracks with a piano on this disc simply rock! (Note the CD rerelease has omitted "Stretsgnag Citsalp" and "Summer Holiday" due to lack of playing time on the CD format)
Best Tracks: From Chaos to 1984: ALL/ Rarities: Chaos (With Tom on vox)/ Brave New World/ Get Out of My life/ Bread or Blood/ Yesterday's Heroes/ Norman/ Dambusters (With John Jacobs doing everything from vox to piano)/ Merry Xmas Everybody
Realaudio - Bread Or Blood (Live)
Realaudio - Merry Xmas Everybody
Rating:*****
The Business: 1980 - 81 Official Bootleg
History: Originally Released in 1983. Currently licensed to Harry May
Info:This album contains the
very
early demos of the Business. In Tracks 1-4, the first demos, they sound like a
really mediocre pub rock band. If you heard
any of their stuff before, you'd think that this
is not
the same band. Fitz's voice is RADICALLY different. Just listen
to the teen angst ballad "19"
which is pretty out of of
charachter for the band. Tracks 14-20 feature the band
live in 1981 recorded on a low fidelity cassette .
Included is an early version (Radically
different) of "Work or Riot" with different lyrics. The last tracks are a bunch
studio goofing around takes with Garry Bushell credited to the Gonads.
25 tracks in all and really detailed
liner notes make this a stellar look into the early days of this great band.
Best Tracks: Out in the cold/Unevenly Pretty/ Product/ Harry May/ Suburban Rebels/ National Insurance Blacklist/ Work Or Riot (Live)/ Product (Live)/ Tell Us The truth (Live)/ Go Mad With The Gonads/ I Lost My Love to A UK Sub/ Sandra Bigg Really Big/
Rating:****
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