Charlie Ainley - s/t

Name: Charlie Ainley
Album: Bang Your Door
Year: 1978
Style: Pub Rock, Disco, Country, Rockabilly, Blues
Similar Bands: Steve Forbet, Lou Reed, Marshall Crenshaw
"One-Word" Review: Randomized Bar Jukebox Singer
Based Out Of: Cornwall, UK
Label: Nemperor Records, CBS Records

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Lyrics, Record

Bang Your Door (1978)

1. Bang Your Door 3:05
2. Angry 3:28
3. Try to Be a Good One 4:15
4. Pig Farm Blues 2:50
5. I Don't Need No Doctor 4:00 / (Ashford & Simpson cover)
6. Deed I Do 3:15
7. New York, New York 3:41
8. Heat of the Night 3:18
9. The Whistler 3:55
10. R.U. 1 3:05

Album Rating (1-10): 6.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Charlie Ainley - Writer, Vox (Charlie & the Wide Boys, Shakin' Stevens)
• Tony Ashton - Producer, Organ, Tubular Bells (Ashton & Lord, Gardner & Dyke, Broken Glass, Chicken Shack, Family, Green Bullfrog, Roger Glover & Guests,  Remo Four, Wizard's Convention)
• Stuart Elliot - Drums, Percussion (Cockney Rebel, Keats, Steve Harley, Al Stewart, Alan Parsons)
• Chas Hodges - Bass, Backing Vox (Chas & Dave, Black Claw, Cliff Bennett & Rebel Rousers, Green Bullfrog, Heads Hands & Feet, Heinz & the Wild Boys, House Band, Oily Rags, Ritchie Blackmore Orchaestra, Rockers, Soul Survival, Outlaws, Sessions and more)
• Richard Worthy - Guitar (Charlie & the Wide Boys)
• Pete Wingfield - Bosendorfer, Keys (Band of Gold, Jellybread, Olympic Runners, Hollies, Keef Hartley Band, Dexys Midnight Runners, Olivia Newton-John)
• The Misdemeanors - Backing Vox
• Howie Casey - Brass (Howie Casey & the Seniors, Rockestra, Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers)
• Martin Frith - Brass (National yo9uth Jazz Orch. Ian Gillian Band, Herb Miller Orch.)

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this singer/songwriter, but I expect a general slacker meets hipster songsmith.

Album Review: This record jumps all around the styles from pub rock to disco to country. The vocals don't sound like they're the same person on any one track, which might have been a goal, but this feels like a genre compilation more than a solidified album. He sounds like Zappa, Lou Reed, generic honky-tonk, or Robert Plant at any one time. Not positive, but I suspect the album title and first track is a veiled references to asking for anal sex.

Stand Out Track: Bang Your Door

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