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Classification: Album
Label: Glass
Catalogue: MGLALP011
Date: May1985
Recorded: February 1985, Woodbine Studio, Leamington Spa
Production: John A. Rivers
Photography: Mitch Jenkins
Sleeve: Buffalo Shame
A-Groove: boris is digging the potatoes
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Big Saturday
Holiday
Red Pets
Only A Rumour
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President Reagan's Birthday Present
What's The Matter, Boy?
![[listen to Walk With The Devil]](/images/iconMP3.gif) Walk With The Devil
Down The Drain
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Pat Fish
Max Eider
Owen Jones
David J.
Graham "Felix" Fudger
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For absent friends
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One day's rehearsal in Kevin Haskin's living room, five
days' recording and two days' mixing was all it took
for us to make my favourite of the Glass records.
Now that the band had done a few dates with decent p.a.
systems and stuff, I was beginning to have some sort
of a bead on this singing business. Also, having exhausted
the initial stick of JB songs (several of the A Scandal In Bohemia
tunes had actually been written at the time of Bath Of Bacon,
but were rejected back then as needing further development),
I was obliged for the first time to write about my life
as it was at the time, which was very different to the
way I lived when writing the first two records.
Now I was "in a band", had left my day job, had been
to Europe... I even started to write songs that were
not self-consciously deferential and mocking. Hence,
I guess, the arrival of the first recorded "big ballad"
in Only A Rumour, where David J. harmonies at the end STILL
give me the shivers.
I think that now we had started to learn about actually
creating recordings rather than just recording the sound
of a bunch of pals fooling around, and the disc does
have a nice, unified feel. Credit John A. Rivers for
his high-speed mixing job. When I think about it, this
l.p. doesn't really have any "great" tunes, in the sense
of numbers that people request or whatever, but it has
a nice totality, a good, atmospheric vibe.
This one I'd actually defend at length if I had to.
My First JB Album
dw_hk...
David, Hong Kong
19Jan2010 7:46 PM
(2 years 118 days ago)
I love this album more than any other by JB.
I got this on vinyl in a tiny record shop in Wanchai, Hong Kong in 1986. Now, years later, I particularly like the line in 'Down the Drain' where Pat sings "I wish I'd been born in Selangor" since both my sons were born in Selangor.
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the best!
mbrych...
mike b from raleigh
23Aug2008 8:42 PM
(3 years 267 days ago)
I have to agree. this is by far the best JB release! I come back to it again and again over the years. just found a 'backup' cpoy in charlotte last week for only $10!
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my favourite glass lp too
jpcim...
jean-philippe, bordeaux, france
6Jan2008 6:46 AM
(4 years 132 days ago)
this is also my favourite LP from the Glass era. Here's what i think and feel (on french) about it : http://fried2.blogspot.com/
Jean-Philippe
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Sex and Travel - Yes, I think I'll have a bit of both, thanks
Ian Marshall (telepopcanada...
Los Angeles, CA & Guelph, ON
12Nov2005 9:56 PM
(6 years 187 days ago)
This is one of my very, very favourite albums out of the seven hundred gazillion in my collection. I wish there were more songs on it, but then... would it be as perfectly perfect?
I would put this up against any of the greats.
If you don't own this one yet, you need to find a copy.
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