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 This record left our Phil feeling happy.
The Fire Engines have another collection out. This one different to the odds and sods collection released on Domino. 'Hungry Beat' is a compilation of their 3 singles and their mini album for the 1st time collected onto one lovely CD. I have to say Brian was the specialist in this field but now he's gone I've sort of got into it a bit more. This whole scratchy wonky proper new wave old indie is making much more sense to me. The bottom line is that it's great pop music. Listening to this album you can hear where so many indie bands have nicked their ideas from over the years. Proper ground breaking stuff this was at the time. Well recommended.... There would have been no Franz without these guys!
What the label says:
"...WITHOUT FIRE ENGINES , PRIMAL SCREAM WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED, AND NEITHER WOULD THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN." (BOBBY GILLESPIE)
"THEY GAVE US INSPIRATION..CHALLENGING THE ACCEPTED NORM OF WHAT POP MUSIC WAS." (ALEX KAPRANOS)
This is a totally essential early ’80s UK Post Punk record that has been out of print since the early ’90s.
This reissue features a deluxe 16 page colour booklet with extensive liner notes from a friend of the band and their original label boss, Bob Last of Fast Product, plus original cover art and band photos.
The band has been name-dropped endlessly; finally the original recordings are available!
The Fire Engines formed, did absolutely everything in the most chaotic and unconventional manner possible, and broke up 18 months later.
Considered one of the three main movers on the fertile Scottish post punk scene of the early 1980s with the much poppier Orange Juice and slightly more accessible Josef K, Fire Engines drew from similar influences but leaned
towards darker and more abrasive sources: Velvet Underground, the Voidoids, Television, the artier end of UK punk and early post-punk like the Pop Group and the Fall, and perhaps most importantly, a copy of No New York, particularly the Contortions.
The Fire Engines music was angular but funky, discordant but melodic, terse and energetic. During their brief career they released 3 singles and a mini- LP, all of which are contained on Acute’s new compilation Hungry Beat.
Franz Ferdinand list The Fire Engines as one of their biggest influences. In 2005 Franz Ferdinand invited The Fire Engines to play a Christmas show with them in Glasgow and Domino Records released a split Franz Ferdinand/Fire Engines 7" with each band covering the other’s song as well as a Fire Engines cd of demos, out takes and radio sessions.
Most of the original Fire Engine’s material came out on Fast Product/Pop Aural, labels run by Bob Last who also discovered Human League, Gang of Four, and the Mekons.
Tracklist:
1. Candyskin 2. Meat Whiplash 3. Get Up and Use Me 4. Everything’s Roses 5. Big Gold Dream 6. Plastic Gift
7. Sympathetic Anaesthetic 8. Discord 9. New Thing in Cartons 10. Hungry Beat 11. Lubricate your Living Room 1
12. Lubricate Your Living Room 2 13. Get Up and Use Me (Version) 14. Sympathethic Anaesthetic (Version) 15. New Thing in Cartons (Version) 16. Plastic Gift (Reprise)
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