GIRLS AT OUR BEST Pleasure Orig UKLP Post Punk New Wave

	£		21
	$		28

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GIRLS AT OUR BEST!

Pleasure

Original UK LP released on Happy Birthday Records in 1981. Includes insert.

Featuring a pre-fame Thomas Dolby here and there on keyboards, Girls at Our Best's sole album, Pleasure, is an underrated delight, tempering the sometimes harsh edge of the earliest singles to an equally passionate and entertaining approach not afraid to be calm here and there. With Harper now firmly settled into the drum seat, the quartet touched on everything from Siouxsie and the Banshees' arty edge to Gang of Four aggro-funk and full-on power pop catchiness, and did so brilliantly. Evans' voice was at its considerable best at many points, sometimes so light that it was hard to catch what was being sung, but often able to deliver her sometimes wry, sometimes sunny, but always smart sentiments just right.

The hilarious rip on capitalist dreams "Waterbed Babies" and the sly "China Blue" are two particular winners. The sprightly, full-bodied music didn't lack for excitement either, and unlike the rote exercise that much of indie rock later became, there's still an exploratory, honest freshness about the arrangements. Call it the surfy leads Alan throws in here than there, the very intentional disco quotes on "Heaven," or trying out subtle tempo shifts at points for variety within a song, but there's plenty of random joy to be had, down to the guest clarinet on "Fun-City Teenagers."

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Pleasure

Too Big For Your Boots

I'm Beautiful Now

Waterbed Babies

Fun-City Teenagers

£600,000

Side Two

Heaven

China Blue

Fast Boyfriends

She Flipped

Goodbye To That Jazz

Released on 'Happy Birthday Records' in 1981

Catalogue No. RULP 1

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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