HUMAN SWITCHBOARD Live Orig US LP Post Punk KBD

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HUMAN SWITCHBOARD

Live

Original US LP released on Square Two Records in 1980. Edition of 1000 copies.

"...taken from a May '80 & and August '79 performance...to give Switchboard fans an album's worth of material...until some dumb record co figures out who the best white American band around today is..."

Inspired by the Velvet Underground (especially lead vocalist Bob Pfeifer) and the angst-ridden post-punk of Joy Division, Human Switchboard debuted in 1977 with an EP produced by Pere Ubu's David Thomas. Human Switchboard Live was released by the band three years later (although it resembles a bootleg), after which the group released their only LP, Who's Landing in My Hangar? After yet another live album, Coffee Break!, this one consisting of radio broadcasts, the band promptly disintegrated. Pfeifer (who later landed an A&R position at Epic Records and went on to serve as president of Hollywood Records) released one solo album five years after the breakup, and keyboard player Myrna Marcarian later released an EP using only her first name.

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Transplant the early Velvet Underground to the late '70s, trade that band's kinkier concerns for conventional male-female issues, and you've got Kent, Ohio's Human Switchboard in a nutshell. Repeated disclaimers aside, leader Bob Pfeifer sings in a dry, ironic style suggestive of young Lou Reed, and Myrna Marcarian's wobbly organ-playing adds an amateurish tint that evokes White Light/White Heat.

The Human Switchboard debuted with a junky-sounding 7-inch (mixed by Pere Ubu's David Thomas) whose four songs clearly (if ineptly) demonstrate the two sides of the trio's sound. "Distemper" and "Shake It, Boys" are straight garage rock, while "San Francisco Nights" is a total Lou Reed imitation.

On the Switchboard's sole studio album, Who's Landing in My Hangar?, Pfeifer creates a neurotic, high-strung persona that makes for gripping listening. Two uptempo cuts ("Book on Looks" and "(I Used to) Believe in You") celebrate the ups and downs of romance, while the LP's high point, "Refrigerator Door," carefully weaves an intriguing web of personal details. It all seems embarrassingly confessional, which is a pretty neat trick.

The Switchboard's other two releases are live recordings that overlap material extensively with Hangar; both are interesting. The 1980 disc, an authorized bootleg, features Marcarian's haunting rendition of "Downtown." Coffee Break is from a November 1981 Cleveland radio broadcast.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

I Can Walk Alone

Believe In You

City

Sharpest Girl

No Heart

I Gotta Know

Book On Looks

Side Two

Time, Time, Time

Who's Landing In My Hangar?

Frowntown

New Song

Released on 'Square Two Records' in 1980

Catalogue No. NR 12175-1/2

Disc is in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX++ condition

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