Vibrators - Pure Mania
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Artist: VibratorsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Into the Future....
- Yeah Yeah Yeah
- Sweet Sweet Heart
- Keep It Clean
- Baby Baby
- No Heart
- She's Bringing You Down
- Petrol
- London Girls
- You Broke My Heart
- Whips and Furs
- Stiff Little Fingers
- Wrecked on You
- I Need a Slave
- Bad Time
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Free Music Review: The Band that Time Forgot
Hit: 4 Stars
Part of the second wave of punk bands that swept onto the UK scene, the foursome of Knox (guitar, keyboards, vocals), John Ellis (guitar, vocals), Pat Collier (bass, vocals) and John Edwards (drums) kept the politics to a minimum while delving into the roots of rock-n-roll through fast and stripped down numbers.
This debut album was released in June 1977 and the 15 tracks are covered in a swift 34:42, with the standout "Baby Baby" being issued as a single one month before the larger vinyl. Other choice cuts are "Yeah Yeah Yeah," "No Heart," "Petrol" and "Wrecked on You." The band Stiff Little Fingers took its name from one of the songs.
Considered part of a hefty list of UK "one-hit wonders" from this era and mostly forgotten by critics, the band broke up in 1980, reformed in 1982 and have been on the road since then. "Pogo Dancing," indeed.
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SIDE A1. Into The Future
2. Yeah Yeah Yeah
3. Sweet Sweet Heart
4. Keep It Clean
5. Baby Baby
6. No Heart
7. She s Bringing You Down
SIDE B
1. Petrol
2. London Girls
3. You Broke My Heart
4. Whips & Furs
5. Stiff Little Fingers
6. Wrecked On You
7. I Need A Slave
8. Bad Time
Pure Mania is a terrific relic of the punk era by a London band that owes much more to the Ramones than the Sex Pistols. Light on anger and nihilism but heavy on humor and fun, it's a blitz of twisted love songs ("Sweet Sweet Heart," Wrecked on You," etc.) with an ode to bondage thrown in for good measure. Label it music to shake your brains to. The Vibrators apparently thought they were playing pop music for the end of the decade (the '70s, that is), oblivious to the fact that the masses (especially in America) could never have been expected to catch on. That doesn't mean you shouldn't. --Mike Corrigan
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