The Wasted Years, by The Jazz Butcher

The Wasted Years

by The Jazz Butcher

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David Harris So many rivers ran from hearing this Fish!

Matthew Flores RIP Pat Fish of The Jazz Butcher! Favorite track: Partytime.

bruno.0711 "Bath Of Bacon" became an integral part in my music's DNA. Whatever was before and whatever came later has to compete with the sound, the lyrics and attitude of JB and this record Favorite track: Zombie Love.

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1.	Gloop Jiving 02:05	buy track
2.	Jazz Butcher Theme 04:40	buy track
3.	Partytime 03:46	buy track
4.	Bigfoot Motel 03:56	buy track
5.	Sex Engine Thing 03:54	buy track
6.	Chinatown 03:08	buy track
7.	Zombie Love 03:57	buy track
8.	Grey Flanellette 02:11	buy track
9.	La Mer 02:45	buy track
10.	Poisoned By Food 03:15	buy track
11.	Love Kittens 02:27	buy track
12.	Bath Of Bacon 02:47	buy track
13.	Girls Who Keep Goldfish 03:37	buy track
14.	Southern Mark Smith (Big Return) 05:17	buy track
15.	Real Men 04:00	buy track
16.	Soul Happy Hour 02:23	buy track
17.	I Need Meat 02:30	buy track
18.	Just Like Betty Page 02:59	buy track
19.	Marnie (Muscovite Mix) 03:05	buy track
20.	Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present 04:27	buy track
21.	Mind Like A Playgroup 02:18	buy track
22.	Girlfriend 04:07	buy track
23.	My Desert 06:16	buy track
24.	Big Saturday 02:40	buy track
25.	Holiday 04:45	buy track
26.	Red Pets 02:19	buy track
27.	Only A Rumour 04:22	buy track
28.	President Reagan's Birthday Present 04:22	buy track
29.	What's The Matter, Boy? 02:35	buy track
30.	Walk With The Devil 06:05	buy track
31.	Down The Drain 01:51	buy track
32.	Falling In Love 03:51	buy track
33.	Big Bad Thing 02:59	buy track
34.	Still In The Kitchen 05:50	buy track
35.	Hungarian Love Song 03:41	buy track
36.	The New World 03:20	buy track
37.	Who Loves You Now 03:30	buy track
38.	Domestic Animal 03:41	buy track
39.	Buffalo 04:15	buy track
40.	Nothing Special 03:29	buy track
41.	Angels 05:15	buy track

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Featuring ‘Bath Of Bacon’, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, ‘Sex And Travel’ and ‘Distressed Gentlefolk’.

Remastered by Brian Pyle.

In the early ‘80s, Dave Barker was checking master vinyl copies of classical recordings for glitches – they don’t make jobs like that anymore. In his spare time he discovered innovative souls struggling to make music and welcomed them to his Glass Records label. The roll call included Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, The Pastels and The Jazz Butcher.

The ‘Butcher’ delivered a gaggle of albums and many 45s for Glass from 1983 to 1986, the jacket notes on the dusty tome that recalls this period mentions Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), Thatcher, DIY post-punk, LSD, surrealist cabaret, The Velvet Underground, a bottle of Cointreau or two, the Amstrad 7090 and Ronco’s ‘Black Magic’ compilation. All that led to the ‘The Wasted Years’: Four albums, many visions…

‘Bath Of Bacon’ was an experiment in sound, conjoining that Ronco platter to Todd Rundgren, a guitar from Wes Montgomery’s cupboard and mentions of imaginary monsters set to some funky chops. “The sound of a few mates failing to take note that they’ve an LP to make!” claims the JB site. It’s pop meets bluesy scat with plenty of deadpan irony – a theme that will recur.

‘A Scandal In Bohemia’ took a “competent little rock band” with a bassist who’d served time in Bauhaus into a world chorused by multi-track vocals and bathroom ambience. “A top-shelf diamond of a record that is filled with excellent, memorable songs.” (All Music).

‘Sex And Travel’ offered a broadening perspective. Competence and European travel beget a narrative akin to an impressionistic cold war spy movie, a “mess of styles” that became coherent. “A great album,” muses All Music before comparing JB mainman Pat Fish to Ray Davies circa 1969. It’s an “accidental” concept album prone to fleeting melancholy.

‘Distressed Gentlefolk’, ahead of the original band’s demise through “fatigue and liquor” was the Butcher’s stab at making their “greatest album ever”. “A beautifully romantic record of soft rock ballads and jazzy torch songs,” enthused Trouser Press. There’s a folky edge scratching away beside the inevitable romp through pop music’s historical lineage.

Four albums, then. The ‘80s recast at an ironic party of malcontents. Indie pop as a soundtrack. Songs that shouldn’t fit together – but do. ‘Wasted Years’? Yeah, really.

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released October 20, 2017

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