Rachel Sweet - Fool Around (1978/2007)

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Title: Fool Around
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Stiff Records
Genre: Pop Rock, New Wave, Alternative
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 50:43
Total Size: 129/351 Mb (scans)
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Rachel Sweet - Fool Around (1978/2007)


Tracklist:

01. Just My Style
02. B-A-B-Y
03. Who Does Lisa Like
04. Wildwood Saloon
05. Stay Awhile
06. Suspended Animation
07. It's So Different Here
08. Cuckoo Clock
09. Pin A Medal On Mary
10. Girl With A Synthesizer
11. Stranger In The House
12. I Go To Pieces
13. Sad Song
14. Truckstop Queen
15. Tourist Boys
16. Be Stiff

If Stiff Records wanted to market Rachel Sweet as an ironic sex symbol, they succeeded only at the irony of forbidden fruit; the picture of her on the back of this disc in a rugby shirt and jeans, head cocked, hands on hips, could grace the cover of Lolita's next edition. Sweet was fully sweet 16 in 1978, though, and pictures aside, "the little girl with the big voice," as the bosses billed her, lived up to that description. Belting, whooping, pleading, and near-weeping through the speakers, she rides the crest of Liam Sternberg and his Spector-ized production (that feel of a marching brass band keeping warm on a snowy morning), embodying the tough, rowdy sides of Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson, though not so genre-bound as the latter. Sternberg's "Wildwood Saloon" and Elvis Costello's letter-perfect "Stranger in My House" hearken back to Sweet's childhood country records, but Carla Thomas' gleeful "B-A-B-Y," Del Shannon's mournfully up-tempo "I Go to Pieces," and Dusty Springfield's desperate "Stay Awhile" pulsate into new life through her throat, a crackerjack band including Brinsley Schwartz and Lene Lovich swirling faithfully along. Another Sternberg original, "Who Does Lisa Like?," opens with, "Sittin' around in the Firestone parking lot/It's alright!," and climaxes by insisting on the primacy of the title question over starvation in India and war in Baghdad. Only a true believer touched with the power of imputing her true belief could run that one back for a touchdown. [The 2007 reissue adds 5 bonus tracks including Sweet's spirited version of the Stiff anthem "Be Stiff"]


  • yveslorson
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i liked this album a lot in the seventies !!! so thanks for lossless version !
  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.
  • jlftlycée37amour
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As yveslorson. Many thanks.