BEST OF THE SINCEROS LIVE!
THE SINCEROS signed with Epic Records in 1979, & put out their debut: The Sound Of Sunbathing. It was hampered by a terrible album cover in the UK, but the US version’s cover is pretty cool. Their first single: Take Me To Your Leader got a lot of airplay—peaking at #70 in Australia.
Their second album was shelved in 1980—eventually getting reworked/re-recorded & released as Pet Rock in 1981--but the delay cost the band their momentum. Both albums are great new wave/power pop showcases for their clever & catchy songwriting, & quirky, yet cohesive, playing.
The Sinceros had so many songs with hit potential. Other highlights are; I Still Miss You, Little White Lies, Disappearing, Are You Ready (A Mark Kjeldsen solo single that was also released as a single by The Sinceros) and the very Joe Jackson-sounding Worlds Apart which are all included here.
Members went on to play in Squeeze, Eurogliders, The Teardrop Explodes, Procol Harum, Nick Lowe & The Impossible Birds, and in Van Morrison’s band.
Drummer Bobby Irwin is probably the member I was most familiar with after the band broke up. He played with everyone in Rockpile—one of my favorite bands. The Sinceros backed LENE LOVICH on her Stateless album—which I consider to be a classic--& they backed Lene on her BE STIFF tour.
Mark Kjeldsen joined forces with the great Danny Adler. I spotlighted Adler here: THE BEST OF DANNY ADLER Vol. 1 & I did a BEST OF THE SINCEROS studio work that can be found here: BEST OF THE SINCEROS.
Tracks on this live compilation are from shows at the legendary London venues The Hope & Anchor, & The Paris Theatre, and Boston’s Rat Club. Some (most?) of them are from the wonderful BB Chronicles blog: BB Chronicles/Sinceros. A tip of the hat to them!
Downloaders are asked to share an artist whose commercial momentum was kneecapped by their record label (like The Sinceros' was).
ReplyDeleteI'll add this one. IMMEDIATE Records went under just as HUMBLE PIE's second album TOWN & COUNTRY was released. Label head Andrew Loog Oldham steered them toward A&M with his suggestions of what they should ask for (they got much MORE!) but their momentum was halted by the relative unavailability of their second record.
THE SINCEROS BEST LIVE!
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The Dwight Twilley band came out of the gate on late 1974/early 75 with the GREAT and successful, 'I'm On Fire' on Leon Russel's Shelter label.....their next single was great, but Shelter was going thru distribution problems, with ABC I think, which killed the momentum of that second single, and the '76 album 'Sincerely'....they later signed to Arista for their second album, which was equally excellent, but that initial momentum killed off that first era, which took Dwight Twilley (solo) many years to get back....
ReplyDeleteGREAT ONE, Anonymous! Thanks for commenting.
ReplyDeleteEvie Sands was a poster girl for label probs. She was on Leiber and Stoller's Blue Cat Records, and released "I Can't Let Go" just at the tie the label was dying in 1966. The next year, she released "Angel of the Morning" just as Cameo Records was about to go under. Her versions were both the original ones.
ReplyDeleteI first ran across Evie's name when I included her "Angel of the Morning" on one of my "As Heard Here First" compilations. When I put together a set of songs covered by the Dickies, I read on Discogs about what happened to her single "I Can't Let Go" AND her debut single, "Take Me for a Little While".
DeleteThat's when I noticed that she qualifies for my Comeback Specials series twice: first for her 1999 album "Women In Prison" and again in 2014 for her album with Billy Vera, "Queen of Diamonds/Jack of Hearts". She released another album in 2020.
I knew Evie Sand's name, Guypinot, but not about her misfortune!
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Het Goede Doel, in english The Good Cause, had a powerful song that was a huge hit in The Netherlands. België. When they made their version in english it became Luxemburg. It fitted the melody better than Belgium, It was the spring of 1985 and just before it would appear Live Aid stopped all attention for the Dutch "Good Cause". They never went anywhere. Good Dutch pop but never for the English, let alone US market.
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GOOD CAUSE sound better than good to me--that song has definite hit potential. Thanks for the link, Richard!
DeleteExcellent album, thanks Stinky, didn't know they incorporated quite a bit of reggae!
ReplyDeleteKneecap example: The Zombies, despite some hits in the beginning of their career (1964–1965), Decca showed little enthusiasm for releasing much further work. As a result in 1967, they self-financed "Odessey and Oracle" on a shoestring budget of about £1,000, hoping CBS/Columbia would pick it up. The album was released in 1968, but it received minimal support from the label—poor marketing, no real push for singles, and initial sales were dismal. The Zombies had already disbanded by late 1967 due to frustrations and commercial struggles, but "Time of the Season" (from the album) became a massive posthumous U.S. hit in 1969, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, go figure!
Another great example, Koen! One of my favorite groups, too!
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