Pursued By Trees
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Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 14, 2008, 11:33
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Recently discovered this album and am presently enjoying it greatly.
When it came out I bought 'Reveal' for Perfect Day ... and nothing else on it really stuck with me. Are any of their albums worth a listen?
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Carlos
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 14, 2008, 17:25
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When I was a kid my father gave for Xmas the Lp Red Skies Over Paradise and I liked it a lot. Now I don't know if it would interest me. I don't have it anymore.
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redbarchetta
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 14, 2008, 20:12
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Wow - Fischer Z ... when I lived in Holland as a kid, in the late 70's/early 80's, they scored a series of hits and were regulars on Top-pop (presented by the great Aad Visser, the king of Dutch pop tv).
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 15, 2008, 08:53
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There's pretty much every track of Red Skies posted on youtube ... sounds okay-ish but it's not as inspiring as (especially side two of) Word Salad.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 15, 2008, 10:03
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There's a 2-CD best of called 'Highlights 1979-2004' on EMI that has everything you could possibly want, really- certainly a few gems after the 'Word Salad' tracks (which like you is the only original album I own), plus some very dodgy photos. It's that high, clear vocal contrasted with the driving bass and keyboard groove that does it for me.I don't know how available it is- I was actually given my copy by Fischer Z main man John Watts, who I met at a gig here in Brighton. Lovely bloke, still writing, recording and gigging- in fact working so hard that he claimed to only bother with about 4 hours sleep a night! Off the booze and chats away like nobody's business. He's still quite popular in Germany, where he tours regularly.
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 15, 2008, 11:56
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Cool, Thank You! I'll keep an eye out for it ... I usually seem to manage to track most things down eventually.
I agree with you about ' ... that high, clear vocal contrasted with the driving bass and keyboard groove ...'. There's also something about a certain strand of recordings from the post-punk/new wave .. probably a combination of factors ... to some extent those late 70's/early 80's analogue keyboards ... the way that the drums were recorded ... also the general over-all production values ... not exactly flat or deadened, but a little bit basic and recorded-in-a-cardboard-box-sounding if you get what I mean? Probably the joys of an analogue studio. Probably haven't explained that terribly well ... like the production quality of the first Cure album for e.g.
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meurglys III
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Re: Fischer Z - Word Salad
May 15, 2008, 11:58
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Wow! I used to have both Word Salad and red skies, along with a picture disc of The Worker. I loved em. Might even still have them in th'attic.
Bought
a 69 Capri
Failed the MOT
What a waste of time.
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