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Thanks for the Bicycles, Alice. They're great. Could you tell me a bit more about them?
Gangway addy:
I seriously believe they could've been bigger than they were; their biggest hit was, rightly, the Mountain Song but I also believe You Will Say is one of the great lost singles. The blend they concocted was perhaps too special for the time - even now it's hard to find someone resembling what they did - melting the sweet with the bitter, the pop with the electronic at a time when practically no one else was, and the banal, witty and the psychotic lyrically. I liken them to the Coen bros. in their pre-Fargo period. If you like what you hear I'd first go for Happy Ever After and That's Life, with Optimism and Compendium - which features remixed versions of songs and a couple new - as seconds. And their earliest as thirds, if you ever get that far. And if you wonder about what ever happened to the vocalist, who once was described by Neil Tennant as having the perfect pop voice, he went on to make a solo feature which was a straighter, much, much straighter, take on Gangway, devoid of the dark undercurrent and intelligence so prominent in his earlier efforts. I avoid it. Except for Allan Jensen: Stars, which might not work for you if you're diabetic; a guilty pleasure. Can't find purchase info for that one.
And the songwriter, Henrik Balling? Him I'll come back to at a later date. |
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