Coming...Ready or Not! [Import]

Product Description
The music on the album is British Powerpop from the late 70's, the songs were our live set playing with bands such as The Jam, The Buzzcocks, XTC, The rezillos, and many gigs on our own. We are now playing again and have just returned from Tokyo.

Coming...Ready or Not!,Fast Cars,Detour,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Top pop punk from England A Power Pop Classic!

Coming...Ready or Not! Fast Cars Manufacturer: Detour ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005N8H9 Release Date: 2006-03-23

Tracks:

1. Images of You
2. Tameside Girls
3. What Can I Do?
4. You're So Funny
5. Everyday I Make Another Mistake
6. Bombed Our School
7. Modern Day Romance
8. Things You Do
9. Why?
10. I'm All Right
11. Please, Please, Please
12. I Won't Be Coming Home
13. Looking for Something
14. Marching as to War
15. Kids Just Wanna Dance
16. Suffragette City
17. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)

Album Description

The music on the album is British Powerpop from the late 70's, the songs were our live set playing with bands such as The Jam, The Buzzcocks, XTC, The rezillos, and many gigs on our own. We are now playing again and have just returned from Tokyo.

Album Description

Full title - Fast Cars - Coming...Ready Or Not! Fast Cars were one of the most underrated bands from Manchester scene in the late 70s. They played with XTC, The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Fall, The Rezillos and supported The Jam. Their brilliant debut single 'The Kids Just Wanna Dance' picked up daytime Radio One play and they were almost signed by The Jams A&R man at Polydor. Of Course, the music has a nasty habit of turning it's back on some great bands and sadly this is what happened, in the early 80s the band split, disillusioned with all the bullshit that the industry was throwing up. 16 original powerpop tunes plus two covers, Bowies 'Suffragette City' & the Holland/Holland/Dozier number 'This Old Heart Of Mine'. Detour Records. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Top pop punk from England.......2006-01-15

This CD is an amazing find, I'd only heard of "The kids just wanna dance" before cause that is always listed a classic from the day. Fast Cars are one of the original pop punk bands playing the style 20 years before Green Day etc !!! Tracks like "Bombed our school" "Marching as to war" are just as relevant today, "Marching" could be a theme tune for Iraq !!!

Hope someone can find more from where this came from, truly 5 star pop punk !!!

A Power Pop Classic!.......2005-10-12

I've never written a review on Amazon, and I'm only writing one now because I find it disheartening an album this good has no reviews.

At first, what struck me about the album is how much it sounded like The Exploding Hearts, as if the Fast Cars were trying to fill the void left by the Hearts' tragic demise. Which might have been the case, except for the fact that the Fast Cars made their mark in the '70s!

The songs are loud and catchy, but, similar to the Hearts, the sound is dirtier and more roughhewn than power pop songs such as Cheap Trick's "Surrender," but this only adds to the charm of the Fast Cars and sets them apart from their peers.

So if you like The Exploding Hearts, '70s punk or power pop in general, the Fast Cars are worth checking out. The album price is worth it, if only for the classic "The Kids Just Wanna Dance."

Plus considering that as of this writing this is the only review and that the ultra-rare original vinyl of the Fast Cars goes for mad cash on E-bay, just knowing about this band is sure to get you more cred than putting on a skinny tie. At least among the Japanese anyway.

Average customer rating: Fire from Lindholm

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Abridged) Manufacturer: Bella Voce Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003A9QS Release Date: 1999-12-01

Customer Reviews:

Fire from Lindholm.......2001-11-17

This set contains four records with two abridged live performances. I have as yet only listened to the performance from 1974. This is one of the first pirated records to appear with the Swedish dramatic soprano Berit Lindholm. Let us hope that recordings from the Ring conducted by Sir Colin Davis at Covent Garden will appear soon! Meanwhile this Tristan from Amsterdam 1974 fills the gap with a truly amazing dramatic force. You can feel the amazement and tension among the public, crying out their "bravos" at the end. This is Lindholm's evening and a great one ideed. Totally involved in her part she becomes Isolde and everything catch fire... No Wagnerian or other opera lover can be without these records. The first two CD's concentrates on the part of Isolde (1974).The performance from 1979 (not with Lindholm)concentrates on the tenor, Spas Wenkoff - more comments will follow when I have listened to that. For the moment, the 5 stars are for the 1974 recording.

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