Album: Live It Up
Year: 1985
Style: Reggae influenced New Wave
Similar Bands: Police, English Beat, Specials
"One-Word" Review: Brassless Powerpop Ska
Based Out Of: Hoboken, NJ
Label: Golda Bowlfish Records
- The Distance 2:53
- Live It Up 4:20 /
- Fire 4:30
- Pounding Heart 4:26
Members & Other Bands:
- Don Brody - Guitar, Vox, Words & Music (Screaming Urge, the Marys, Connie Sharar)
- Todd Novak - Lead Guitar
- Christopher Johns - Drums, Backing Vox
- Dan Acker - Bass, Backing Vox (the Dragsters)
- Glenn M. Taylor - Engineering, Producer
- Charles Evelyn - Album Design
- Jeffrey Kane - Photography
Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but they also (like the Philisteens) look like a typical new Wave Band, however, there is a chance that they could be more jangley college pop, since it is a 1985 record, and markered over as a radio station's copy.
Album Review: They are a very Police inspired reggae-new Wave band. All of their songs have the repetitive & rhythmically strummed chords/ They do not have quite the energy of ska, and there is no brass. But they are considered to be part of the NYC Ska contingent, with their own variation on the genre. Singer Don Brody was a survivor of polio in his youth, and learned to play guitar while bedridden. He passed away at 44 in his sleep in Dec'97.
Stand Out Track: The Distance
Links:
Discogs
Tribute
Marco on the Bass
Tone & Wave
PSU article from '86
Don Brody rememberance
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