[2019-11-29] Skafish "Skafish" expanded remaster (829)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:13 pm

Description
After being out of print for nearly 40 years, the debut Skafish album is finally available for the first time on CD on Skafish's own label, 829 Records. The meticulously remastered album includes the bonus track "Sink or Swim," one of the most radical Skafish tracks of that era. The CD package includes the restored album cover, photos (circa 1979), a 16 page booklet that contains every lyric (both sung and spoken), along with the original and reissue credits.

Long considered a cult classic, the debut album was originally released on the now legendary I.R.S. Records label on May 7, 1980 at 4:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

At the time of its original release, the album cover, featuring the delicately posed, androgynous image of Skafish, was so hated by American radio that they refused to play the album, based solely on the cover.

Skafish wrote the album's compositions between 1975-1979, and was the sole producer and arranger of the project.

The music represented a seemingly-contradictory, diverse mixture of genres and styles, with each of the songs being often dramatically different from each other. Elements of punk, new wave, alternative, indie, post-punk, classical, orchestral, electronica, 20th century avant-garde, noise, polytonality, atonality, progressive jazz, pop, and doo-wop were featured.

As a lyricist, Skafish was one of the first to ever write about a variety of controversial, taboo topics. Those included the still relevant, brutal reality of bullying, fat shaming, and gay bashing. Skafish foreshadowed the dysfunction and psychological torment that is now a commonplace topic in today's music. He directly confronted being a social misfit, and flaunted disgracing his family name.

I.R.S. Records CEO Miles Copeland credits Skafish as being the artist who helped "put Chicago on the map as the pioneer of Punk and New Wave there and on the international stage, gave audiences a really insane ride."

Tracklist
1. Introduction
2. Joan Fan Club
3. Maybe One Time
4. Obsessions Of You
5. We'll See A Psychiatrist
6. Romantic Lessons
7. Work Song
8. Guardian Angel
9. Disgracing The Family Name
10. No Liberation Here
11. Take It Out On You
Bonus Track:
12. Sink Or Swim

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZWBPLZQ/?tag=imwan-20

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

This is an amazing release.

[2019-11-29] Skafish "Skafish" expanded remaster (829)

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