Can't Stand The Rezillos

Can't Stand The Rezillos
Studio album by The Rezillos
Released July, 1978
Recorded February, 1978, Power Station N.Y.C.
Genre New Wave, Punk
Label Sire
Producer Bob Clearmountain, Lance Quinn, The Rezillos, Tony Bongiovi
The Rezillos chronology

Can't Stand The Rezillos
(1978)
Mission Accomplished...But the Beat Goes On
(1979)
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Allmusic [1]

Can't Stand The Rezillos was The Rezillos' first album, released in 1978 and including the UK hit, "Top of the Pops", part of which was used as a jingle on BBC Radio 1.

Unusually for a New Wave group, the album featured several sixties covers, "Glad All Over" (originally a hit for The Dave Clark Five), "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (original by Fleetwood Mac) and "I Like It", a Gerry & The Pacemakers track.

The record reached number 16 in the UK Albums Chart. Trouser Press called the band "a blast of fresh air compared to the more serious bands of new wave's first charge" and praised the album as "an action-packed document of their pop/camp approach".[2] In 1994, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music named Can't Stand The Rezillos one of the 50 best punk albums of all-time. The compilers claimed that the Rezillos were "exuberant almost to the point of hysteria" creating "a body of work full of verve, style and humour", which this album "encapsulates to perfection".[3] Punk aficionados acclaimed the album.[4][5] In March 2003, Mojo magazine ranked the LP in its 'Top 50 Punk Albums'.[6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Callis; except where indicated

  1. "Flying Saucer Attack"
  2. "No"
  3. "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (Jeremy Spencer)
  4. "Top of the Pops"
  5. "2000 A.D." (Callis, William Mysterious)
  6. "It Gets Me" (William Mysterious)
  7. "Can't Stand My Baby"
  8. "Glad All Over" (Dave Clark)
  9. "(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures"
  10. "I Like It" (Mitch Murray)
  11. "Getting Me Down"
  12. "Cold Wars"
  13. "Bad Guy Reaction"

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Rezillos". TrouserPress.com. http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=rezillos. Retrieved 2012-01-05. 
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (1994). All Time Top 1000 Albums. Enfield: Guinness Publishing. p. 246. ISBN 0-85112-786-X. 
  4. ^ Joynson, Vernon (2001). Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk. Wolverhampton: Borderline Publications. p. 305. ISBN 1-899855-13-0. "Another of the finest moments in British punk." 
  5. ^ Steve Gardner (1996) Hiljaiset Levyt: 100 Best Punk LP's;
  6. ^ Mojo Issue 112 (March 2003) Top 50 Punk Albums;