MODERN LOVERS The Modern Lovers LP BESERKLEY 1976 UK re+1 bonus JONATHAN RICHMAN
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THE MODERN LOVERS
ERNIE BROOKS, JERRY HARRISON, DAVID ROBINSON, JONATHAN RICHMAN
Formed by endearing songsmith Jonathan Richman, they blended early rock, garage sounds,
the Velvet Underground, created unique proto-punk sound. Singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman
is sufficiently well-established as a solo artist, and it's easy to overlook the fact that the moniker
sometimes used for his backing band, the Modern Lovers, was once connected to
a coherent group of which Richman was a member. The Boston-based group
the Modern Lovers is of such significance to American underground rock that they deserve
separate consideration from Richman's own body of work, although many of the songs they
recorded carried over into Richman's solo career and were used as the flagstones on which it was built
"THE MODERN LOVERS"
<reissue, originally published in 1976>
Produced by John Cale
LP BESERKLEY RECORDS BZ 0050 STEREO
MADE IN ENGLAND 1986 REPRESSING
WITH ONE BONUS TRACK*
SINGLE COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
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Label: BESERKLEY - BLACK LABEL w/YELLOW LOGO & TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) BZ 0050
Catalog on labels: BZ 0050
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BZ+0050+A ORLAKE
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BZ+0050+B ORLAKE
On labels:rim text reads "All Rights.............Manufactured in the UK"
? 1976 Beserkley Records
All songs written by Jonathan Richman and published by Modern Love Songs
On Back Sleeve: LP compiled by Matthew King Kaufman
Manufactured in the United Kingdom
Beserkley ? & © 1976 "Home of the Hits"
tracklisting
Side 1: ROADRUNNER - ASTRAL PLANE
OLD WORLD - PABLO PICASSO - I'M STRAIGHT*
Side 2: SHE CRACKED - HOSPITAL - SOMEONE I CARE ABOUT
GIRL FRIEND - MODERN WORLD
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)Compiled of demos the band recorded with John Cale in 1973, The Modern Lovers is one of the great proto-punk albums of all time, capturing an angst-ridden adolescent geekiness which is married to a stripped-down, minimalistic rock & roll derived from the art punk of the Velvet Underground. While the sound is in debt to the primal three-chord pounding of early Velvet Underground, the attitude of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers is a million miles away from Lou Reed's jaded urban nightmares. As he says in the classic two-chord anthem "Roadrunner," Richman is in love with the modern world and rock & roll. He's still a teenager at heart, which means he's not only in love with girls he can't have, but also radios, suburbs, and fast food, and it also means he'll crack jokes like "Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole...not like you." "Pablo Picasso" is the classic sneer, but "She Cracked" and "I'm Straight" are just as nasty, made all the more edgy by the Modern Lovers' amateurish, minimalist drive. But beneath his adolescent posturing, Richman is also nakedly emotional, pleading for a lover on "Someone I Care About" and "Girl Friend," or romanticizing the future on "Dignified and Old." That combination of musical simplicity, driving rock & roll, and gawky emotional confessions makes The Modern Lovers one of the most startling proto-punk records -- it strips rock & roll to its core and establishes the rock tradition of the geeky, awkward social outcast venting his frustrations. More importantly, the music is just as raw and exciting now as when it was recorded in 1973, or when it was belatedly released in 1976...(AllMusic)
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