Re: (TV) great lost album mention

["Murray Ramone" <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

this is from another mailing list that I'm on, for late 70's early 80's 
Edinburgh band the Scars (recently in the UK charts after being sampled by 
Lemon Jelly)-  stick with it, television get a mention at the end) - 
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thescars for mp3's if you think the Scars sound 
interesting - the guitarist from the Scars is 'supporting' my band 
(theoritically, probably the truth is we'll just have a later less morning 
friendly slot) at our next gig which is pretty weird for me


This month's Word magazine has selection of writers and
musicians
nominating an album they consider underrated. Broadcaster and
writer
Andrew Collins has nominated 'Author Author'. He writes

'Ask me for a great lost album and this is my default selection:
the
only LP from an Edinburgh quartet who looked pretty
uncomfortable in
their itchy Aztec gear on the back cover, but it was 1981 and
paymasters Charisma no doubt had greater plans for them than a
number 67 chart peak. But what spirit and guitar based fury. It
was
a difficult time for pale young men, as evidenced by Leave Me In
The
Autumn, Fear Of The Dark and Obsessions, all tribal drums,
meaningful reverb and singer Robert King's ennui-wracked wail.
Naturally, a nuclear holocaust is imminent (ubiquitous paranoia
brilliantly captured in the eerie, public-service-announcement-
styled Your Attention Please) and there is an allusion to
obscure
cinema (The Lady In The Car With The Glasses And A Gun, misread
from
the title of a poor half-French 1970 thriller with Oliver Reed
and
Samantha Eggar). They supported the Banshees and The Human
League,
and as Paul Morley wrote in the NME at the time, they "epitomise
the
post-punk new seriousness". Lemon Jelly recently sampled them on
the
hit The Shouty Song and three of The Scars joined them onstage
at
the Usher Hall. I don't need a reunion; just this album on CD'

Subscribers to this group may also be interested to know that
The
Rezillos album is also nominated along with Adventure by
Television.
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