CHELSEA Chelsea LP A STEP FORWARD RECORD 1979 UK orig+inner SFLP2 GENE OCTOBER
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CHELSEA
Led by vocalist and frontman Gene October, Chelsea were one of the pioneering bands on the British punk scene, with a tough sound and a populist outlook typified in songs like "Right to Work" and "Urban Kids." Thanks to October's tenacity, they became an enduring presence in U.K. punk, and though the band sounded a bit faster and louder on latter-day albums like 2015's Saturday Night Sunday Morning and 2005's Faster, Cheaper & Better Looking than on early efforts such as 1979's Chelsea and 1982's Evacuate (and October's voice showed signs of wear over time), their commitment to the essential rudiments of first-wave U.K. punk never wavered...
"CHELSEA"
1979 LP A STEP-FORWARD RECORD SFLP 2
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE
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LABEL: A STEP-FORWARD - BLACK LABEL - WHITE TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) SFLP 2
Catalog on labels: SFLP 2
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): SFLP-2-A1 tone
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): SFLP-2-B1 I ONLY FOLLOW ORDERS!
Other / Runout (on both sides, Stamped): ?
On labels: ? & © 1979
(on Side A): Published by (1) Mess Music Ltd. (2-5) Step Forward Music
(on Side B): Published by (1-3, 5) Step Forward Music (4) Island Music Ltd.
On Back Sleeve: Recorded at Sound Suite and Surrey Sound Studios.
Produced by Chelsea and Wally Brill
A Step Forward Record (SFLP 2) distributed by Faulty Products.........England
tracklisting
Side A: I'M ON FIRE - DECIDE - FREE THE FIGHTERS
YOUR TOY - FOOLS & SOLDIERS
Side B: ALL THE DOWNS - GOVERNMENT - TWELVE MEN
MANY RIVERS - TROUBLE IS THE DAY
grading
RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
It was one of the most howling injustices of the entire punk era. Chelsea emerged in 1976, among the very earliest of bands to arise in response to the rapidly warming sounds of the street. Yet they were among the last bands of all to release an album, a full three years into their career and, it must be said, a good two years after they really ought to have done it. In 1977, after all, Chelsea was at the very forefront of the battle, and commencing a sequence of churning singles whose intentions are still garishly neon-lit declarations of war -- "Right to Work"; its B-side, "The Loner"; "High Rise Living"; and "Urban Kids" evoke the soul of 1977 as avidly as any better-fated offering from the Pistols, Clash, or Adverts. But the obstacles piled up, the record labels turned them down... and, by the time Chelsea finally hit the streets, though the band was still blazing, punk itself was scarcely smoldering. The album foundered accordingly, and it was only later -- much later -- that ears twisted back toward Chelsea and admitted that its timing was its only fault. In every other respect, it is brilliant, a savage litany that states its case from the opening chord and doesn't let up for a second. "I'm on Fire," "Decide," "Twelve Men, rate among the most obvious highlights, and if Gene October's tendency toward polemic does seem a little over-the-top today, then that only reinforces the righteous rage that was burning behind the band. While the best of Chelsea's punk peers were absorbed into the system, and grew fat and complacent on chart success and critical plaudits, Chelsea themselves remained defiant outsiders, and didn't care who knew it...(AllMusic)
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