Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The Lucy Show: Mania


Lucy! I'm Home!

I don't know much about this band. Despite the information available on the Net (primarily at http://www.thelucyshow.net/) I find it hard to really know a lot about a band without having heard much out of them. That being said… I would LOVE to know more about this band.

I do know the band was formed in South London in 1982 by two ex-pat Canadians, Mark Bandola and Rob Vandeven, and that they remained together until 1989.

This record was released in 1986 and is simply amazing! It's Pop, but it has a Punk Informed edge and just enough of a Guitar Band quality to keep it squarely in the Pop-Rock category. This is the beginning of the Alternative scene that swept through in the 90s. In this record I hear R.E.M., The Psychedelic Furs, Rain Parade, David Bowie, several other bands who's names I can't recall at the moment, and (at some level) The Hoodoo Gurus? Maybe?

Anyway… It's a great record. Enjoy!

  1. Land and the Life
  2. View from the Outside
  3. Sojourn's End
  4. Sad September
  5. A Million Things
  6. Sun and Moon
  7. Shame
  8. Melody
  9. Part of Me Now
  10. New Message
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4 comments:

  1. Traitor Vic5:59 PM

    You're Welcome!

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  2. Anonymous8:39 PM

    Thanks a lot for this post.

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  3. Steve J.Carras4:18 AM

    Boy, you sure had me fooled:
    Thought this blog had disappeared forever due to your comments recently on the YourPalDoug blog and the title of the group, sounded like the title of a TV "Lucy Show" with Lucille Ball soundtrack [cue veteran radio/TV comic character actor Gale Gordon from the show:"Lucy Carmichael"!!]

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  4. pankkke4:40 PM

    Hello!.. Any chance to re-up this amazing album?

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