BUNCH OF 7´S FROM THE 70´S # 21

"CHELSEA KIDS/JACKIE THE LAD" (RAK RECORDS 77)
"THESE KIDS DON´T PLAY WITH TOYS/BUT THEY SURE
MAKE A LOTTA NOISE/THEY PLAY AROUND WITH EACH
OTHERS LIVES/CUT THROATS WITH IBIZA KNIVES/
WIDE EYED SNIFFIN´BOYS SNIFFIN´(5x)/THEY´VE
GOT FATHER FIGURES/BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT/
WHEN THERE´S A GUY IN THE GROUP/WITH A REAL NICE
FLAT/CHELSEA KIDS/THEY PLAY GUITAR LIKE RUSSIAN
ROULETTE/ONE CHANCE THAT´S ALL THEY GET/UNCLE
CHARLES IS THEIR BEST FRIEND/GIMME MONEY YOU CAN
DO IT AGAIN/refrain/MOTHER´S ALWAYS THERE FOR A
CHIT OR A CHAT/THEY GOT GIRLS WHO DO BETTER THAN
THAT/CHELSEA KIDS"I DISCOVERED THE KIDS AROUND
1976 WHEN THEY PERFORMED ON GERMAN TELLY SHOW
DISCO,WHERE GARY HOLTON STARTED ATTACKING
MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE-LEMME TELLYA,I DIGGED
THEM RIGHT FROM THE START."CHELSEA KIDS" IS ONE
OF THEIR BOSSIEST SOUNDS,MALE HOOKER BOOGIE ON A
PRE PUNK TRIP."JACKIE THE LAD" LEANS HEAVILY ON
THE BRITISH MUSIC HALL-TRADITION JUST FOR KICKS.

"DOCKING IN" (RAK RECORDS 1977)
"No one in the world likes me/Every body just hates me/No one
knows what i'm about/That's why i just scream and shout/Maybe
it's not the right side of me/Dont take me serious I'm just
delirious/I'm not responsible I'm just impossible/Some-
one up above hates me/No no one ever did like me/Close my eyes
& i see me/Was it something i just said?/Maybe i'm going out of my
head/refrain/They don't know what i'm about/That's why i just
scream & shout/I would be better off dead/refrain"
JEEPERS,WHAT A FRIGGIN´SHAME,COULDN´T UPLOAD

"DELIRIOUS" CAUSE IT´S SCRATCHED,BUT I THINK

EVRERYBODY KNOWS THAT SONG ALREADY.INSTEAD YOU

GET THE LYRICS!TALKIN´´BOUT "DOCKING IN",IT

STARTS AS A VAUDEVILLE TOON BUT TURNS INTO A COCK-

EYED COCKNEY ROCKER W/SOME OUTRAGEOUS SYNTH.

"MARY´S MAMMA/MADEMOISELLE" (PHILIPS 1972)
I THINK THEY´RE DUTCH.A-SIDE IS RATHER LISTENABLE

TEENYBOPPER CHART-FODDER,FLIPSIDE IS THE WINNER,

NEDERBOOGIE AT BREAKNECK SPEED.

"MARBLE BREAKS" ( RECORDS 1976)
"MARBLE BREAKS & IRON BENDS BUT OUR LOVE WILL

NEVER END/AFTER ALL IS SAID & DONE YOU´RE THE

ONLY ONE"GREAT GLAM POP VERSION OF DRAFI

DEUTSCHER´S 60´S ÜBERHIT "MARMOR,STEIN &

EISEN BRICHT".B-SIDE´S NOT UP COZ IT´S WIMPEY.

"MY SLY SADIE/STOP THE WEDDING" (DECCA 1968)

PRODUCED BY ALAN PRICE,I THINK THIS LOT IS ACTUALLY

THE ALAN PRICE SET WITHOUT ALAN."MY SLY SADIE" IS

TOPS,REMINDS ME OF THE EQUALS.THEY EVEN APPEARED

ON BEAT CLUB W/THIS STOMPER.B´S A SMOOTH CROONER.


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