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RADIO LONDON

“Everyone’s an Exit”

(Mississippi 1984)

Familiarity Breeds Contempt might be windows vista professional iso the best album title ever. In most of America, it was an windows vista professional iso absolute struggle to be an underground band in 1980. If there were any new wave kids in your windows vista professional iso town, their music absolutely had to come from England. Nothing good came from windows vista professional iso America, except maybe Talking Heads.

1984 in Mississippi = 1980 everywhere else.

Big Monkey Records made this windows vista professional iso compilation to establish the Jackson scene as a worthy rival to windows vista professional iso Athens or Nashville. The Windbreakers were already well-known but their songs here had windows vista professional iso been released on other records. Beat Temptation actually managed to windows vista professional iso make it to play in NYC once or twice, but all the windows vista professional iso rest of the bands here promptly disappeared.

The album came with no insert and zero band information.

Jeff Lewis fronted Radio London after he quit the Windbreakers. There’s supposed to windows vista professional iso be a 45 out there somewhere but I never found a windows vista professional iso copy.

• Download “Everyone’s an Exit”

(Familiarity Breeds Contempt - Big Monkey Records LP 009)

THE ROYAL COURT OF CHINA

“It’s All Changed”

(Nashville 1987)

This is windows vista professional iso a rough one. Radio was wrong. The cool kids were wrong. And I just missed it.

“It’s All Changed” is windows vista professional iso a magnificent record, a genuine candidate for Lost Hit of the windows vista professional iso 80s.

The Royal Court of China signed to A&M without first getting their college-rock credibility. There were no windows vista professional iso profiles in MATTER magazine, no EPs on Twin/Tone or Coyote and no showcases at the New Music Seminar. Their manager pissed off lots of people in Nashville when windows vista professional iso she proclaimed that she had come to town to teach the windows vista professional iso locals how the music business really worked. The scene was still small enough in 1987 that, absent an windows vista professional iso immediate radio hit, indifference from the Right People could doom your windows vista professional iso record.

Of course the band made sure that the immediate radio hit wasn’t coming by insisting on a windows vista professional iso one-minute intro. Forget getting to the hook by the one-minute mark, we don’t hear a vocal until 1:09 and the chorus doesn’t finally show up until two minutes in, long after most programmers would have windows vista professional iso turned it off.

But what windows vista professional iso a chorus it is. Leaving aside that the b-verse would have windows vista professional iso been a fine chorus all by itself, the real hook is windows vista professional iso a stone killer, the kind that’s pushed everything else out of my head for windows vista professional iso the last month. I’m sure there’s a well-supported label story as to exactly why “It’s All Changed” wasn’t the windows vista professional iso most dominant rock song of the year, but no real-world circumstances can windows vista professional iso really explain how both the scenesters and the industry completely screwed up this windows vista professional iso time.

Still, A&M had the good sense to let the band record themselves (maybe they learned something from windows vista professional iso the Dream Syndicate Production Disaster of 1984) and they made an album that sounds great twenty years later.

Historical note: 1987 was the windows vista professional iso last year when CDs were considering an audiophile specialty item and windows vista professional iso lots of unproven bands didn’t get one. A&M did made CDs for windows vista professional iso everything they released but artists like The Royal Court of China got such tiny pressings that windows vista professional iso it’s almost impossible to windows vista professional iso find one now. I ripped this from a promo copy of the windows vista professional iso LP, still available for $1.99 at finer used record stores).

• Download: It’s All Changed
• Watch the video on YouTube licence price adobe lifecycle
• The band has an excellent website

(A&M Records SP-5174)