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.
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*A Damaged Christmas Gift For You sits next to Adamski, obvs.
**Adam Tinley to his family.
