In Flac - scans are included
1. Have An Idea
2. When You're Mine
3. Sorry Girls
4. Nights With You
5. Some Other Guy
6. Remember Me
7. Ordinary Girls
8. I Don't / She Don't Mind
9. Call Yourself A Man
10. Don't Like Your Face
11. Night Shift
12. Divorcee
13. Questions Questions
14. Let's All Smoke
15. Rivals
16. Count on Me
17. In Your Town
The Heats may be the best power pop band that most power pop fans have never heard. They peaked between the 1970s wave of AM radio pop and its 1980s underground echo, playing Seattle clubs and gaining regional college radio attention. Their lone LP, 1980's Have an Idea, was produced by Heart's Howard Leese and released on their managers' Albatross label to local fanfare but no national attention. It sold 15,000 copies and failed to garner the band a major label deal. The thirteen original songs, including a remake of the catchy single "I Don't Like Your Face," are filled with the influences of the Beatles, Big Star, Tom Petty, and Dwight Twilley, and the singing of guitarists Steve Pearson and Don Short borrows some fine harmonies from the Everly Brothers.
This Japanese reissue of the original album was produced from sources that are inferior to the original vinyl pressing (and thus to the original master tapes). The high end is missing, shaving off the keening edges of the voices, guitars, drums, and cymbals, and sounding as if this was played through a radio. Much of this material was reissued in better fidelity on 1998's Smoke, but this is the first CD to include the original album track "Questions Questions" and the correct album takes/edits of "Ordinary Girls," "I Don't Like Your Face" and "She Don't Mind." The four bonus songs, "Let's All Smoke," "Rivals," "Count on Me," and "In Your Town," are great additions to the original album tracks.
Hats off to Air Mail for having the taste to reissue this album, for digging up superb bonus material (particularly the Flamin' Groovies'-styled "Count on Me"), and for including the original front and back covers; it's a shame they couldn't come up with a better audio source. That said, it's a mark of just how good this album is that even in lesser fidelity, the music's chiming charms still shine. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]
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Special thanx to Acresofbears for this brilliant contribution!
5 comments:
bought this album or a slightly differnt version many years ago. ranks up with the best powerpop of the 70s/80s. great post.
Great band, saw them many times in the early 80s. The write-up got one fact wrong though: the Heats did put out a 2nd album, called "Burnin' Live" (1983) and it was 10 previously unreleased songs recorded live.
I have a decent rip of my vinyl copy of "Burnin' Live" (which is a live album, in case the title doesn't make that obvious) if anyone is interested. I also have a 2 CD live set released a few years back called "Live and Live Again" which was one CD of material from the 80's and one from a series of reunion shows in the 2000's.
Brilliant! thank you so much!
Bought this one the day it was released back in Seattle. Saw them open for Van Halen and they blew me away.
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