Pre-Order: Shades - Basement Sessions 1978-1980 (CD, Digipak) (New (N))

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Before the East Coast new-wave circuit had a map, The Shades were already driving it. Formed in Central New Jersey from the high-school group Nobody Special, the six-piece developed it's own songs while holding down four-set bar nights and carrying them to the Hot Club, City Gardens, the 9:30 Club, the Rat and Bookies. They shared stages with the Mumps and, in September 1979, The Police. Between 1978 and 1980, sound engineer John DeMarzo captured The Shades in the Evans brothers' basement on a TEAC quarter-inch four-track machine. Basement Sessions 1978-1980 gathers nineteen of those previously unreleased demos, then adds both sides of the band's 1979 Go-Go single, ""Hello Mr. Johnson"" b/w ""Are You My Angel?,"" originally distributed in Britain through Rough Trade. Four-track tapes, six musicians and hooks enough to escape the basement. Liner notes by David M. Snyder. Remastered by Prof. Stoned.

Tracklist:

  1. Hello
  2. Are You My Angel?
  3. Mr. College to You
  4. Paint By Numbers
  5. Happy Endings
  6. Estella
  7. Don't Mess Around
  8. Arbor Row
  9. Hey Linda
  10. Crime Club
  11. Trying Harder
  12. Close at Hand
  13. Just Because
  14. Where's My Hat?
  15. No Place for Me
  16. Men from the Boys
  17. It's a Secret
  18. Turn It Over
  19. It Pays to Be Cool
  20. Hello Mr. Johnson (Single Version)
  21. Are You My Angel? (Single Version)

UPC: 601570655913
Label: Think Like A Key Rec
Release Date: 10.30.26
Format: CD

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    Before the East Coast new-wave circuit had a map, The Shades were already driving it. Formed in Central New Jersey from the high-school group Nobody Special, the six-piece developed it's own songs while holding down four-set bar nights and carrying them to the Hot Club, City Gardens, the 9:30 Club, the Rat and Bookies. They shared stages with the Mumps and, in September 1979, The Police. Between 1978 and 1980, sound engineer John DeMarzo captured The Shades in the Evans brothers' basement on a TEAC quarter-inch four-track machine. Basement Sessions 1978-1980 gathers nineteen of those previously unreleased demos, then adds both sides of the band's 1979 Go-Go single, ""Hello Mr. Johnson"" b/w ""Are You My Angel?,"" originally distributed in Britain through Rough Trade. Four-track tapes, six musicians and hooks enough to escape the basement. Liner notes by David M. Snyder. Remastered by Prof. Stoned.

    Tracklist:

    1. Hello
    2. Are You My Angel?
    3. Mr. College to You
    4. Paint By Numbers
    5. Happy Endings
    6. Estella
    7. Don't Mess Around
    8. Arbor Row
    9. Hey Linda
    10. Crime Club
    11. Trying Harder
    12. Close at Hand
    13. Just Because
    14. Where's My Hat?
    15. No Place for Me
    16. Men from the Boys
    17. It's a Secret
    18. Turn It Over
    19. It Pays to Be Cool
    20. Hello Mr. Johnson (Single Version)
    21. Are You My Angel? (Single Version)

    UPC: 601570655913
    Label: Think Like A Key Rec
    Release Date: 10.30.26
    Format: CD

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