Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe
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Artist: Adam AntEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-04-11
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Friend or Foe
- Something Girls
- Place in the Country
- Desperate But Not Serious
- Here Comes the Grump
- Hello I Love You
- Goody Two Shoes
- Crackpot History and the Right to Lie
- Made of Money
- Cajun Twisters
- Try This for Sighs
- Man Called Marco
- Goody Two Shoes [Chris Hughes Single Mix]
- Coup d'Etat [Original Album Outtake]
- Goody Two Shoes [Chris Hughes Single Mix][#][Demo Version]
- Here Comes the Grump [Original Album Outtake][#][Demo Version]
- Little Italy [#][Demo Version]
- Made of Money [#][Demo Version]
- Place in the Country [#][Demo Version]
- And So You Shall [#][Demo Version]
- Yellowbeard [#][Demo Version]
- I Know They Know [#][Demo Version]
- Gargoyles Are Go [#][Demo Version]
- Good Sex Rumples the Clothing [#]
Free Music Notes for Friend Or Foe
Free Music Review: The definitve issue of Adam's finest album...
Hit: 5 Stars
There are very few albums that I can hear over and over. This record is one of them. Adam got everything right on this one.
The songwriting and arrangements are perfect (and rocking, fun and lively). And they perfectly suit Adam's lyrics, hang-ups and swagger. He's the ultimate showman/bandleader on Friend Or Foe
which contains loads of perfectly arranged horns, BIG drums as per usual and great vocal arrangements to boot.
Friend Or Foe is his first album minus the Ants and the first where he receives credit for playing all the bass (something he did on the "Kings" and "Prince" LPs but credited them to Mooney and Tibbs, respectively). He's also is a pretty good rhythm guitarist and certainly knows how to use his voice (something never before fully displayed in the Ants).
The Songs? Ahh, the songs. Friend or Foe contains his best batch of consistantly enjoyable songs (cohesively sequenced as well).
The songs are alternately moody - the perfect "Desperate But Not Serious", "Here Come The Grump" - a song with an unwitting reference to AIDS (lines include "doctors say sex kills" and "come inside and die") and "Friend Or Foe" and UP.
The perfectly swinging songs "Goody Two Shoes", "Place In The Country" , "Try This For Sighs", "Something Girls" and "Made Of Money" all make for a perfect soundtrack to an old-school swinging dance party. Way before the mid 90's swing revival mind you. There's also it's share of interesting songs "Man Called Marco" (which sounds like a theme to a spooky horror film that never was), "Crackpot History And The Right To Lie" the fine album outtake "Coup D'Etat" and the weirdly sexy and danceable "Cajun Twisters".
The remastered cd has twelve(!) bonus tracks. Nine of which are rough home demos and are all in all pretty interesting. There's also the single version of "Goody Two Shoes" which is great and features Chris Hughes (aka Merrick) drumming and producing. There's also the excellent album outtake "Coup D'Etat" and "Good Sex Rumples The Clothing" which came out of the same sessions as "Juanito The Bandito" and "Why Do Girls Love Horses" and sounds it and has a great guitar part too.
Weird thing is is that many lyrics on the album deal with Adam's critics and they all responded with rave reviews for this record. Rightfully so as this is one of Adam's finest albums (if not his best).
The album also produced two American hits in "Goody Two Shoes" and "Desperate But Not Serious".
Friend Or Foe Poster
2008 jewel case pressing of the digitally remastered and expanded edition of Adam's hit album, originally released in 1982, including 12 bonus tracks. Friend Or Foe was Adam's first 'solo' album after ditching his Ants, although he retained the services of guitarist and songwriting partner Marco Pirroni. Features the hit singles 'Goody Two Shoes', 'Friend Or Foe' and 'Desperate But Not Serious'. Sony/BMG.Spawned from Blitz, punk rock's better dressed off-shoot, Adam Ant was often accused of favoring style over substance by his harshest critics. Others credit him with putting some parody as well as some poof into what had become the lifeless punk scene. Either way, Friend or Foe, his first solo effort without the Ants did give him the biggest hit of his career, the giddy "Goody Two Shoes." With its not-so-coy "Don't drink/Don't smoke/What do you do?" chorus, the song galloped along thanks to a fine acoustic riff and a swinging bordello trumpet solo. The follow up single, "Desperate but Not Serious" was a bit more brooding, as brooding as Ant could get, but still managed to pack a punch. Along with Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming, this is Ant at his best. While Friend doesn't have the same tribal urgency that propelled the Ants along, it has a healthy dose of new wave know-how that only Adam himself could stand and deliver. --Steve Gdula
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