Haircut 100 Rare OZ White Label Test press LP Pelican West NM 82 Arista New wave
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Haircut 100 Rare OZ White Label Test press LP Pelican West NM 82 Arista New wave
Rare OZ White Label Test Pressing LP released in 1982 on Arista Records. Cat: ARL.37772.This record is part of a recent collection bought from a Festival Records Rep. Stunning condition, many never played….
If Orange Juice famously wanted to sound like a combination of Chic and the Velvet Underground, then Haircut 100 must have wanted to sound like a combination of Orange Juice and Chic. Heavy on the Juice. On their debut and only album with band founder Nick Heyward, Pelican West, the group display all the skittery beats, deep-voiced crooning, and pop smarts of OJ, while adding more funk and saxophone than Edwyn Collins and co. probably ever imagined. That Haircut 100 scored a bigger hit than the band they so clearly idolized must have rubbed the lads in Orange Juice the worst way, but it's clear from even one listen through Pelican West that Haircut 100 were more than just mere copycats. "Love Plus One" is that aforementioned mega hit and it deserved to be a timeless classic. Nick Heyward knew how to write pop hooks and the band fills it in with brilliant subtlety. There are siblings to that song scattered across the record. "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)," "Marine Boy," and the ecstatic "Fantastic Day" all have wonderfully snappy melodies and huge choruses, "Milk Film," "Surprise Me Again," and "Snow Girl" have a refined pop sound that skews a little less gleeful and a little more melancholy.
Tracks: Favourite shirts (Boy meet girl)/ Love plus one/ Lemon fire brigade/ Marine boy/ Milk farm/ Kingsize (You’re my little steam whistle)/ Fantastic day/ Baked bean/ Snow girl/ Love’s got me in triangles/ Surprise me again/ Calling Captain Autumn.
There are a few very light spindle marks on labels. Record is in Near Mint condition.
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