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Monday, June 1, 2020

Lady Pank - Drop Everything

Name: Lady Pank
Album: Drop Everything
Year: 1983
Style: New Wave Ska Reggae 
Similar Bands: China Crisis, Police, Dire Straits, Duran Duran
"One-Word" Review: JangleEuroSka
Based Out Of: Poland
Label: MCA, 
Cover, Record
Record, Back
Drop Everything (1983)
  1. Minus Zero 3:54
  2. Hustler 3:56
  3. Hero 4:10
  4. The Zoo That Has No Keeper 3:40
  5. Be Good 3:56 /
  6. Do, Do 3:54
  7. Someone's 'Round the Corner 3:58
  8. Disturbance of the Order (Instrumental) 1:30
  9. Stranger 5:34
  10. My Kilimanjaro 3:44
Album Rating (1-10): 7.5

Members & Other Bands:
  • Dave Leaper - Producer
  • Jan Borysewicz - Guitar, Vox, Writer (Nurt, Super Pakt, Katia & Roman, Apokalipsa, Breakout, Budka Suflera, Izabela Trojanowska, Jan Bo, Irek Dudek, Jacek Skubikowski, Obywatei GC, Majka Jezowska, Ryszard Skibinski, Fotoness, Top One, Mona Mur, Gosia, Chlopcy Z Placu Broni, Edyta Bartosiewicz, Cytadela, Subway, K. martin, Wojciech Pilichowski)
  • Janusz Panasewicz - Vox (Zander, Krystyna Pronko, Qligowscy, Panasewicz, Wojek Mazolewski)
  • Jaroslaw Szlagowski - Percussion, Drums (Blog 27, Maanam, Oddzial Zamkniety, Tadeusz Nalepa, Fotoness, Maciej Zembaty, Time Square)
  • Pawel Mscislawski - Bass (Oddzial Zamkniety)
  • Edmund Stasiak - Guitar (Emigranci, Hojda, Sputnik, Majka Jezowska) 
  • Andrjez Mogielnicki - Music
  • Greg Kuczynski - Production Consultant
  • Stawomir Wesolowski - Engineer
  • Mariusz Zabrodski - Asst. Engineer
  • Greg Fulginti - Mastering
  • Tom Wachtel - English Transalation
  • Cream - Design, Art Direction
  • Andrzej Tyszko - Photography
  • Tom Carrabba - Personal Manager
  • Tim Brack - Personal Manager
Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but it looks like moody new wave. Quite a Eurotrashy look mixed with British punk/new wave.

Album Review: So this is a Polish band that does not speak much, if any English. At first, the lyrics were translated to English and learned to be sung phonetically. Musically, they are a lot like the police...finding that fine line between ska and reggae that is basically just another branch of the new wave tree. And apparently they are still together, performing across Europe later this year if everything opens back up (2020).

Stand Out Track: Minus Zero

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