Thrift Store Music: Quick (the)

Friday, July 3, 2020

Quick (the) - Wah Wah

Name: The Quick
Album: Wah Wah!
Year: 1986
Style: Hair Rock, Power Pop
Similar Bands: Journey, Def Leppard, Jackson Browne
"One-Word" Review: Slick Digitized Hair Pop
Based Out Of: England
Label: A&M

Cover, Record

Back, Record

Wah-Wah! (1986)

Adventures Tonight 3:57
Down the Wire 3:17
We Can Learn From This 4:51 (single)
Cry Baby 4:27
Poise 3:50 /
I Needed You, You Needed Me 3:53 (single)
The Big Decision 5:03
Last Victim 3:45
Sharon 4:02
Bed of Nails 3:46 (single)

Album Rating (1-10): 6.0

Members & Other Bands:

Philip Carden Thornalley - Producer, Engineer, LIN, AMS Programming, Bass (The Cure, Johnny Hates Jazz, First Steps, Katrina & the Waves more)
Colin Campsie - Vox (The Giant Steps, Grand Hotel, Dance People, Culture Club, Endgames, David Roach, Quarterflash, Ann Lewis, China Crisis, Keep It Dark, Hidemi Ishikawa, Sanne Salomonsen, Deniece Williams, Simon F, Deon Estus, Go West, Robert Hall, Louise, 911, Brit Pack, Beverly Craven, Duncan Dhu)
George McFarlane - Bass, Keys, Guitar (The Giant Steps, Grand Hotel, Dollar, China Crisis, Endgames, The Mood, Helen Terry, Deon Estus, Deniece Williams)
Jim Williams - Guitar (Phil Thornalley, Nick Heyward, Ambassadors USAFE Dance Band, Sunset Gun, Zeke Manyika, Simon F, Holywood Beyond, Man Jumping, Deon Estus, Udo Lindenberg, Halo James, Peter Murphy, Breathe. Beverly Craven, Bros, This Mortal Coil, Vivienne Mckone, Mikel Erentxun, Monroes, Rick Astley, M People, First Choice, F Machine, Diego Vasallo, John Parr, Broken Wings, Jackie O, Indigo, Duncan Dhu, RB Morris)
Jim Copley - Drums (Graham Parker, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Mona Liza Overdrive, Psuchedelix, Spreadeagle, The Pretenders, UPP, Alan Tew, Roy Gaines, Ann Lewis, Mechanical Man, Go West, Deon Estus, Killing Joke, Tears for Fears, Robert Hall, Zazie, Alexander Mezek, Diesel, Curt Smith, Martin Page, Soulsister, Chris De Burgh, Paul Rogers, Dogwood, M3, Stefanos, Josh Groban, Iommi, Bernie Marsden, Magnum, Ali Maas, Micky Moody)
Matt John Barry - Engineering & Production Assist, Cymbal Intervention, Backing Vox (Mavis Toi, Samantha Fox, Opossum Sun Trail)
Frank De Luna - Mastering
Louise Rutkowski - Backing Vox (Jazzateers, Sunset Gun, The Hope Blister, Kindness of Strangers, This Mortal Coil, Love & Money, Waves on Canvas, Mavis Toi, Phil Thornalley)
Deidre Rutkowski - Backing Vox (Jazzateers, Sunset Gun, This Mortal Coil, Cactus World News, Love & Money, Louis Philippe)
Hugh Tennent = RAK Studios
Nick Sykes - Recording
Sandy Roberton - Representation

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. Not much to go by with the bold, colorless font & cover artwork. There is a wah wah painting on the back that looks like a childish commentary on excess noise in NYC. So is this album an addition to the amount of noise, or an ironic critique on too much noise. And with a year on A&M of 1986, will this be college radio jangley rock with a snarky, humorous tone?

Album Review: This is the duo Campsie & McFarlane's fourth and final album. While this The Cure bassist produced album is hair rock with pop-synth production, most of their other material before and after this album is lighter, funkier, and dancier, as they were kind of a full-on synth wave pop duo in the beginning. But this album shows very little of that genre, and feels like a shot at the US radio market, even if it is about 6 years past prime for this style. The vocals are raspy between Steve Perry & Def Leppard, and the production is dense guitars and dated, time-period appropriate crystalline synth that feels completely digitized. Lead off song sounds like it should be on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack. Single "We Can Learn From This" is a smooth R&B

Stand Out Track: Poise

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