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amos and sara - the private world of amos - sing a song fighter - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. Cruel Cocktails
2. A Ballad Of Amos
3. In A Hell-Bed
4. Just What Is Your Gripe
5. You'll Never Guess
6. Totem Of 1000 Dolls
7. Green Is A Bad Colour
8. The Tame One
9. It Kinky
10. Hi-Finance
11. Syphillis Party
12. The Harry & Flo Scene
13. Say It With Strings
14. Mudchuker Man
15. Visiting Beast
16. The Genderizer

Originally released in 1981 as a cassette on the It's War Boys label (catalogue number £2) this is a precious, thrilling reminder of UK post-punk DIY at its most inspired — out to flout musical orthodoxies, and generally rock the boat hard.

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It's giddily brilliant, polyphonic and open-eared; wildly enjoyable. Jolly English... and anti-xenophobic to the bone. In amongst quickfire, Residents-style bricolage there are strong shots of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, jazz from Babs Gonzales through Monk to free improvisation, the misfit punk of The Slits, The Raincoats and Desperate Bicycles, the no-wave-funk ironies of The Flying Lizards, the early tape experiments of Steve Reich, skiffle, silly voices, scraps from film musicals and advertising music... even a go at Tito Puente's timbale playing. According to one of the performers, its themes are 'moral negotiation, mistrust, social class, distress, comedy, wild adventure, chemical derangement, as well as anarchic joy, and love.'