Here’s one I rediscovered putting the last one back on the shelf* and it just sounded exactly right last night under the pale white Christmas lights, Adamski Killer.
That initial squelchy bassline is so evocative for me, in 1990 every club or bar I ever went into sounded like this, every clothes shop and most pubs too. A conservative estimate has me dancing to it just north of 450,730,008 times. This was a good thing, I like it.
The instrumental track was originally called ‘The Killer’ because Adamski felt it sounded like the soundtrack to a movie murder scene. This track is just the right mix of coldly robotic and despairingly human. All the former is thanks to Adamski** and all the latter is thanks to a squat-dwelling clubber who used the moniker Seal.
For me apart from the hooky ‘Solitary sister/brother’ lyric and the ‘will we die’ bit Seal’s voice, and it is a good one, is more of a texture hereabouts. Like singing along to something in a foreign language I knew all the sounds phonetically, but had absolutely no idea what the lyrics were.
‘Killer’ is a cleverly put together cut that still makes me smile and jig around a bit. Mission accomplished Mr Adamski.
The B-sides are perfectly okay, of their time instrumental tracks of the period but just go to show how precious the alchemy of ‘Killer’ was.
1301 Down.
*A Damaged Christmas Gift For You sits next to Adamski, obvs.
**Adam Tinley to his family.
A poor man’s Haddaway surely?!
That’s what you said about my Nuclear Assault review!
It’s my default opinion about most things to be fair
Love this, very atmospheric and I enjoyed dancing to this much more than the shrill house stuff that dominated student dance nights back in the day?
But (and I am scared to ask) how on Earth does this get shelved next to ‘A Damaged Christmas Gift…’?? Surely it should go near ‘Kill ‘Em All’ or, err, your extensive Bryan Adams section…
Me too. Compilations (of mixed artists) get filed by the compilation name – hence A Damaged snuggling up to Adamski.
Pretty sure I learned that in the Brotherton.
You do know that your alma mater uses a ‘unique’ classification scheme that no other library on Earth follows, let alone another educational institution…?
I did not – that as well as my dad being a non-practicing librarian explains everything!
Yeah. Quite enjoyed that. Nice bland of ‘song’ and ‘dance’ (though not in the Fred Astaire way).
Please excuse tardy reply Bruce, I like how Bob Dylan describes himself as a ‘song and dance man’.