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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Trouble with a capital T |
| Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:27:38 -0600 |
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:20:40 -0500
From: Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu>
To: "audities@smoe.org" <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Trouble with a capital T
Message-ID: <BE1D3B98.2AC8%seamand@upmc.edu>
Just picked up the CD version of Any Trouble's "Where Are All The Nice
Girls?" from Not Lame. What a great album! Really brought back fond
memories from my teenage new wave years. If you don't have it, this is a
power pop must have - wall to wall great songs, passionate performance,
melody out the wazoo, more than your average share of breakneck tempos, plus
a cover of Springsteen's "Growin' Up" and Abba's "Name of the Game" - what
more can you ask for?
Anyone know if Any Trouble put out anything else that is anyway near as good
as this one?
This blast from the past got me thinking of other albums that I was way into
back then, but haven't given much thought let alone play to since - fer
instance:
City Boy - first four lps, esp Young Men Gone West
DL Byron - This Day and Age
Starz - the album with Cherry Baby (Violation?)
The Fabulous Poodles debut
Bram Tchiakovsky (sp?) - Strange Man Changed Man
David Werner - the album with Can't Imagine and Melanie Cries
I've gotta dig out this vinyl and crank up the ol turntable soon!
Hokey smokes, Dave, throw in Cheap Trick albums one thru five, the first two
Off Broadway albums, and the Boomtown Rats' *A Tonic for the Troops*, and
you've just listed the soundtrack of my dorm room my freshman year of
college. Well, not City Boy, but everything else -- Any Trouble's *Where Are
All the Nice Girls?*, Starz (actually, it was 1979's *Coliseum Rock* with
"So Young, So Bad" and "Last Night I Wrote a Letter" that got me), the
Fabulous Poodles (again, a different album for me: 1978's *Mirror Stars*),
and Bram T.'s *Strange Man, Changed Man* ("Girl of My Dreams" has to be on
everybody's top ten list of power pop hits) -- was on my turntable when I
was eighteen. But the self-titled David Werner album (with about six or
seven fantastic songs, including "Can't Imagine", "Every New Romance", and
"Eye to Eye") and D.L. Byron's *This Day and Age* (which I bought at a show
at the Riviera in Chicago after seeing him tear up the stage as the opening
act for the Boomtown Rats) were essential listening for me. I still love
those two albums to this day. It's criminal that neither has ever been
released on CD.
Byron used Billy Joel's touring band to record that album. Who knew those
guys could rock?
Gregory Sager
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