NIKKI SUDDEN JACOBITES Robespierres Velvet Base LP GLASS 1985 UK orig SWELL MAPS
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NIKKI SUDDEN & DAVE KUSWORTH
JACOBITES
After the post-punk band Swell Maps dissolved in the early '80s, lead singer Nikki Sudden began a diverse and restless solo career, during which he worked with a number of different bands and side projects. In 1984, Sudden formed the Jacobites with drummer Epic Soundtracks (his brother, who was also a member of Swell Maps) and guitarist/vocalist Dave Kusworth, who co-wrote the material with Sudden. The band developed a laid-back, wasted, romantic classic rock and pop style with acoustic guitars and a rolling rhythm section. The Jacobites released four albums and three EPs between 1984 and 1986, when Kusworth left the band...
"ROBESPIERRE'S VELVET BASEMENT"
1985 LP GLASS RECORDS GLALP 012
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER
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LABEL: ISLAND - WHITE LABEL w/LOGO at BOTTOM - BLACK/RED TEXT
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Catalog on cover: (spine, rear) GLALP 012
Catalog on labels: GLALP 012
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): GLALP 012 A¹ A PORKY PRIME CUT. ITS ALL A CARRY ON, YES DEAR! MPO
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): GLALP 012 B¹ PORKY. GUTEN MIRGAN NIKKI, ICH BIN EIN HAMBURGER. MPO
On labels: All songs published by Rough Trade Music
? Glass Records 1985
(on Side A only): except 1. Copyright Control
On Back Cover: Produced by Nikki, Dave, Epic & Bob.
-Regency Stereo-
Distributed by Nine Mile and The Cartel
tracklisting
Side A: BIG STORE - SNOW WHITE - FORTUNE OF FAME - WHERE THE RIVERS END
SILKEN SHEETS - AMBULANCE STATION - SON OF A FRENCH NOBLEMAN
Side B: HEARTS ARE LIKE FLOWERS - IT'LL ALL END UP IN TEARS - SHE NEVER BELIEVES
ALL THE DARK RAGS - ONE MORE STRING OF PEARLS - I AM JUST A BROKEN HEART
ONLY CHILDREN SLEEPING
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Robespierre's Velvet Basement, the shambolic second album by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth's Jacobites, is a masterpiece of free-wheeling songwriting, loose arrangements, tossed-off vocals, and straight-to-the-gut emotional expression. The Jacobites were never influenced by what was going on around them; they preferred an earlier, more decadent era in rock, and in their sound one gets the jagged shards of Jagger and Richards, Stewart and Lane, and Ronson and Hunter. Not that the Jacobites sound anything like the Rolling Stones, the Faces, or Ian and Mick. Acoustic guitars are more prevalent than electronics, and the spirit of Marc Bolan's folky years hovers just above the cloud of cigarette smoke that made the studio blue. This is rock & roll of a type that had not been made since the '70s, and is only starting to be made again in the 21st century, but in the guitars and voices of the Jacobites -- with Nikki's brother, the late, great Epic Soundtracks, on drums -- one has to ask why it sounds so timeless, as relevant today as it was when it was made, as wondrously loose and garagey as only the best in rock & roll can be. Tenderness, pathos, vulnerability, humor, bitterness, who-gives-a-damn clarity, and genuine fire are what make Robespierre's Velvet Basement one of the great, unsung classics of the '80s...(AllMusic)
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