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• Marca: CD Baby
• Categoría: Indie y alternativa
• Dimensiones: 5.67 x 4.92 x 0.43 pulgadas
• Calificación: 4,7/5
• Valoraciones: 30

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• Dimensiones reportadas: 5.67 x 4.92 x 0.43 pulgadas (14.4 x 12.5 x 1.1 cm).
• Peso aproximado: 3.03 Onzas.
• Calificación promedio de 4,7/5.
• 30 valoraciones visibles.

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Reseña del editor After being out of print for nearly 40 years, the debut Skafish album is finally available for the first time digitally and on CD on Skafish s own label, 829 Records. The meticulously remastered album includes the bonus track Sink or Swim, one of the most radical Skafish tracks of that era. The CD package includes the restored album cover, photos (circa 1979), a 16 page booklet that contains every lyric (both sung and spoken), along with the original and reissue credits. Long considered a cult classic, the debut album was originally released on the now legendary I.R.S. Records label on May 7, 1980 at 4:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time. At the time of its original release, the album cover, featuring the delicately posed, androgynous image of Skafish, was so hated by American radio that they refused to play the album, based solely on the cover. Skafish wrote the album's compositions between 1975-1979, and was the sole producer and arranger of the project. The music represented a seemingly-contradictory, diverse mixture of genres and styles, with each of the songs being often dramatically different from each other. Elements of punk, new wave, alternative, indie, post-punk, classical, orchestral, electronica, 20th century avant-garde, noise, polytonality, atonality, progressive jazz, pop, and doo-wop were featured. As a lyricist, Skafish was one of the first to ever write about a variety of controversial, taboo topics. Those included the still relevant, brutal reality of bullying, fat shaming, and gay bashing. Skafish foreshadowed the dysfunction and psychological torment that is now a commonplace topic in today s music. He directly confronted being a social misfit, and flaunted disgracing his family name. I.R.S. Records CEO Miles Copeland credits Skafish as being the artist who helped put Chicago on the map as the pioneer of Punk and New Wave there and on the international stage, gave audiences a really insane ride." Skafish first burst onto the Chicago scene in February 1976 when the then 19 year old unleashed his shocking new style of performance with his newly formed band. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Cheap Trick attended many of Skafish s earliest shows. Here s what they went on record to say: Unpredictable, over the top with life or death conviction and reckless abandon, Skafish created punk, new wave, and alternative rock in Chicago. His performing resume includes being the first Chicago punk / alternative artist to perform at CBGB in New York in April 1977; Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles in February 1978; appearing at the first Milton Keynes bowl in London in July 1980 before an audience of 45,000; and that August, being filmed in front of approximately 20,000 people in the south of France for the international live concert film extravaganza, Urgh! A Music War, while on tour in England and Europe with The Police, XTC, Squeeze, English Beat , UB-40 and others. Skafish has also toured and/or performed with the likes of: Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Stranglers, New Order, Ultravox, Scorpions, The Cramps, Mumps, The Lemonheads, Scorpions, Sector 27, Sha Na Na and Dead Boys. Críticas His lyrics reveal a complex, confused personality mingling insecurity, paranoia, neurosis, self-mockery and bitterness.... So why should you listen to a freak prattling on and feeling sorry for himself? Because it s done with a musical and verbal intensity that is near the knuckle in its nakedness, that s why. Probably autobiographical by proxy, Joan fan Club is about a fat pig of a girl who s ridiculed at school for being too ugly. Bitter and twisted it is too, arranged like it was from the soundtrack of Grease. Imagine John Travolta singing this: Hey fat pig we re gonna push you down the stairs at school tomorrow / We re gonna touch your little pizza face .... Obsessions Of You blasts in. A neo-orchestral arrangement sweeps the speakers, guitars and synths a go-go; vocal harmonies, the lot. And always the complex time changes... No feelings are left uncovered, either: I might kill myself today cause I want you ... Which leads nicely on to We ll See A Psychiatrist . Oh boy, does he need one. The picture becomes more self-centered and just goes on getting blacker. Residentsish discordant vocals, nightmarish guitar powerchords, jazzy, fractured piano. A problem child: Mother cries all day / She never thought her kid would flop and be so weird ... .He further denigrates himself in Disgracing The Family Name, describing himself as a Pasty[SIC] little moron and A household germ . He asks to be laughed at, not with, but you know he means it man, that his parents really did reject him. But again the tune s jolly, like the music is his way to therapy, his escape. No Liberation Here starts like a Black Sabbath drone, only the demon here is within him. Persecution, ostracism, extrication from society. He mourns: You can t stop years of conditioning / Even when you turn out the lights / Here is my bed / We pretend to understand / And make the birds and bees . Guilt ridden sex, too, oh yes. Nothing is missed out. He aims to touch nerve endings in us all. More frantic piano introduces Take It Out On You, the final revenge... ...Listening to Skafish is like being a priest hearing a confessional. Hear Skafish before he hangs himself. It s admirable to be so open-hearted, but it can often suffocate the music; here the use of alternately simple, appealing melody and harmony and heavy, complex arrangements and rhythms is sometimes poignant, always schizophrenic....Whether tortured genius or pathetic freak, this made me feel so depressed after three hearings that I couldn t put key to paper. One quote I read in a Chicago newspaper just about sums it up: Before you commit suicide, listen to Skafish... Betty Page - Skafish wins by a nose - July 18, 1980 --Sounds Magazine...He s also the most polished performer to come off the IRS label .... and some simply devastating arrangements (all by weird Jim himself) make this disc one of the finer debuts of the year... Work Song and Joan Fan Club are downright volatile. Greg Beebe -Joan and Jim - May 30, 1980 --Santa Cruz SentinelAmidst the hustlings of WBCN s move from the top of the Prudential Tower this week, the Skafish (Skay-fish) album walked into our disheveled offices and floored even the moving company. Any review of Skafish must be prefaced with one fact - the man is physically ugly, period. So what, you query, Striesand beats him face down in the schnozz department. But Skafish writes about the ostracizing and persecution of the imperfect in such a naked and terrifying manner that you may be left shaking. He is not without a sense of humor, and the music resembles Frank Zappa gone punk - but nothing prevents the acid-tipped lyrical arrows from cutting through the rock n roll world of Bee Gee pretty boys. Highly recommended. --The Boston Phoenix / 104 FM WBCN

Detalles del producto Dimensiones del paquete : 5,67 x 4,92 x 0,43 pulgadas; 3,03 Onzas Fabricante : CD Baby Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2019 Producto en Tienda desde : noviembre 3, 2019 Etiqueta : CD Baby ASIN : B07ZWBPLZQ Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Yaxa: nº213,980 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº20,521 en Rock Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº93,256 en Rock (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.7 4.7 de 5 estrellas (30) Dimensiones del paquete : 5,67 x 4,92 x 0,43 pulgadas; 3,03 Onzas Fabricante : CD Baby Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2019 Producto en Tienda desde : noviembre 3, 2019 Etiqueta : CD Baby ASIN : B07ZWBPLZQ Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Yaxa: nº213,980 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº20,521 en Rock Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº93,256 en Rock (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.7 4.7 de 5 estrellas (30)