Showing posts with label Starclub. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starclub. Show all posts

22 March 2024

I HATE THE 90S Volume 27

 


As always, just like in the 1990's, this compilation will fit on a CD.


Tracklist

  1. Big Hello - O' Canada
  2. The Age of Electric - Remote Control
  3. Excuse 17 - Vanishing Act
  4. Neil Finn - Last One Standing
  5. Starclub - Hard To Get
  6. Richard Barone - Where The Truth Lies
  7. Samiam - Capsized
  8. Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - Candy
  9. Le Tigre - Deceptacon
10. Les Autres - Outside My Ken
11. Treble Charger - Stupid Things To Say
12. Drugstore - El President
13. The 6ths - Falling Out of Love (With You)
14. Starbilly - Ducks
15. The DT's - Exit To Stay
16. Sandpit - Greater Expectations
17. Black Velvet Flag - Institutionalized
18. Musical Chairs - Pretty As A Picture
19. Hubcap - If You Love A Song (The Song Will)
20. Enkindel - Enkindel

25 August 2019

STARCLUB self titled 1993

by request
 

Artist Biography by

First-generation Brit-poppers Starclub should never have named themselves after the Hamburg club where the Beatles made their name. Not only could their fine but not world-beating guitar pop not live up to the reference, but it also created an unrealistic point of comparison, especially for those wanting the second coming of Merseybeat, or at least a second La's album. Singer/guitarist Owen Vyse and guitarist Steve French (oddly, the bassist and drummer aren't identified, although they're shown in photos on the sleeve of the band's sole album, 1993's Starclub) instead favor the rougher side of the '60s, as evinced by name-checking the Pretty Things and British R&B legend Georgie Fame's guest organ on three tracks. The single "Hard to Get" was a minor alternative radio hit, but Starclub split up before a follow-up could be issued. Vyse later became a touring member of the re-formed Echo and the Bunnymen. French moved to New York and became a producer, working with former Gin Blossoms guitarist Robin Wilson's bands the Gas Giants and the Poppin' Wheelies. Two songs meant for Starclub's never-recorded second album ended up on the Poppin' Wheelies' self-titled 2000 debut.

Tracklist  

1 Hard To Get 3:35
2 Let Your Hair Down 4:33
3 Call My Name 4:32
4 Forever 5:54
5 All Falls Down 3:59
6 World Keeps Turning 6:16
7 Bad Machine 3:08
8 We Believe 3:38
9 The Question 5:09
10 The Answer 4:26
11 Pretty Thing 3:39