Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Ash
1977
(Infectious, 1996; reissue on Rhino, 2008)
Downpatrick punk-pop trio's svelte '96 debut becomes three-CD monster.
Released when its principal songwriter, Tim Wheeler, was still 19 (and not long after Ash had ceased being a provincial hair metal concern called Vietnam), 1977's pubescent preoccupations - sci-fi, martial arts movies and kissing - are excused, exalted even, by a timeless, typically overexcited production from Owen "Definitely Maybe" Morris and Wheeler's own magical pop nous (Goldfinger, Lost In You and Oh Yeah drip girl-group honey). Torn between noise-rock and Spectoresque pop craft (though Wheeler's choirboy-next-door vocal range best suits the latter), Ash have flip-flopped ever since, and while there's something absurd about 1977's economical charms thus distended, the bonus material commemorates Ash's early breadth, with a masterful cover of Abba's Does Your Mother Know? offset by creditable faux-American post-hardcore in the shape of 5am Eternal. Even juvenilia like Cantina Band and the notorious Sick Party (bassist Mark Hamilton voms to order) has its place. Boys will be boys, after all.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 26/08/2009
Further Listening
Ash – Free All Angels (Infectious, 2001)
Ramones – Leave Home (Sire, 1977)
John Williams, LSO – Star Wars Soundtrack (20th Century, 1977)
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