Wreckless Eric
England Screaming
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80--90点相当
ベテラン
力作
イングランド、サセックス州ニューヘイブン生まれ
ニック ロウ の制作をバックに
デビュー
今作は、昔に出している楽曲の再録を多く含む作品
The 1980s were not a great time for Wreckless Eric. He had gained a certain recognition as part of Stiff Records' roster of genial eccentrics on the basis of 1978's Wreckless Eric and 1979's The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric. But after his third album, 1980's Big Smash!, failed to bring him a larger audience, he parted ways with Stiff, and Eric was saddled with an image he felt was doing him more harm than good. At loose ends, he formed a group, Captains of Industry, which featured Mickey Gallagher and Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury's Blockheads, and he was credited by his given name, Eric Goulden. They cut an album, 1985's A Roomful of Monkeys, that was poorly received by the few people who heard it, and its failure put Eric's career in neutral, as he relocated to France and stayed out of the spotlight. Eric has made no secret of his disappointment with the LP, saying, "That album has always been a regret to me because I think these songs mark my coming of age as a songwriter, but not, alas, as a recording artist." Forty years after the fact, he decided to take another stab at A Roomful of Monkeys' songs, and 2025's England Screaming features new recordings of nine of the older album's ten tunes.
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