TEENAGE HEAD 5

TEENAGE HEAD Trouble in the jungle 1985 Warpt Records 320 kbps

Frantic romantic / Let her dance / Drive-in / Save your love / I can't pretend / Weekend /Splatter man / Jam up & jelly tight / Parasite / Teenage heaven / Sloppy drunk / I need your love / Little sister / Get down (single b side -bonus track) .

Produced by Dave Desroches & Gordon Lewis .

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MCA picked up Teenage Head the next year and tried to market them to the American audience - biggest example was the adding of an 'S' to the band's name to appease those who were trying to clean up rock & roll. 1983's TORNADO ( see Powerpop Criminals blog )was a 6 track EP which made Head-fanatics cringe. Their previous image of 'party til you puke punks' now more closely resembled a group of Potsy Webbers - just not as cool. Featuring production work by David Bendeth, who'd filled in here and there in various capacities over the years, label execs tried to gear the rockabilly-twinged record to the college yuppies ... with disasterous results.
The band signed with Ready Records after MCA lost faith that same year. Back to their original name, a new version of the debut was re-released before year's end, with "Top Down' the single - again. The aptly-titled ENDLESS PARTY (a future post ,coming soon ) hit the shelves in 1984, and was quickly heralded as one of the better albums in capturing a band's live stage presence. A third version of "Top Down" was now on the airwaves but again the band watched their label fold when Ready Records went under later that year. Their woes continued when Venom's living the rock and roll lifestyle a little too much led to him being fired around the same time. He went on to a number of new groups, including The L7's & Frankie Venom & The Vipers to little success. Head meanwhile shopped around for a new label.

With new vocalist Dave 'Rave' DesRoches, ex of The Shakers, they cut TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE in 1986 on Warpt Recrods. Still doing the 'white punks on beer' they were caught in the middle of a musical change of tide, and the single "Frantic Romantic" did nothing to improve the situation. Their second release with Warpt was CAN'T STOP SHAKIN' the next year. A total commercial failure, the band foundthemselves on Fringe Records a year later, releasing ELECTRIC GUITARS .... same result. Again the guys found themselves label-less and this time went their seperate ways...

Une bonne surprise ce disque de Teenage Head avec Dave Rave à la guitare ! Quelques chansons originales, des reprises dont "I can't pretend " des regrettés Barracudas et en cerise sur le gâteau cette version quasi powerpop du hit de Gilbert O' Sullivan "Get down" (une face b de single qu'on ne retrouve pas sur l'album) !

Fabien et Manu ont fourni le disque et les scans et Max a fait la pochette !