OK, if you are looking at this page from the UK, the weather is shite, the best that February has to offer, so I would recommend that you retrieve a copy of 'Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts' put it on the turntable and grab a beverage of your choice and give it a critical listen.
As an accompaniment piece, here's an album of demos recorded in 1977 that go by the name of 'The Basement Tapes. Six of these tracks in a refined form made the album cut whilst 'Quick Step' and 'We Who Wait' appeared as the B-side contributions to the 'One Chord Wonders' and 'Safety In Numbers' singles respectively.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-6ZuRvmG8jb
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-tgdUXSjJcY
I think they (the journalists) somewhat missed the point, the key to the Adverts was never going to be (or ought to have been) sophisticated musicianship and therein lies the dilemma.
ReplyDeleteThey became more sophisticated on the second album and lost some of their combustible tension as a result.
The Explorers album (which I love) was far to embedded in, well, "progressiveness" to keep this teenager amused at the time.
I've seen the Bored Teenagers live and can only imagine from that experience how dynamic the original Adverts were.
Just keep up the good work Tim because we really do appreciate it.