Pigs On Purpose＜Colored Vinyl＞

バーミンガムのポスト・パンクの革命児、ナイチンゲールズのデビュー・アルバムにデモ音源などを追加し2枚組でリイシュー!!

リード・シンガーであるロバート・ロイドの人生を讃えるドキュメンタリー映画「KING ROCKER」と同時発売。この映画は、マイケル・カミング(BRASS EYE, TOAST OF LONDON)、コメディアンのスチュワート・リー、ジェームス・ニコルズ(FIRE FILMS, FIRE RECORDS)が制作。

初期PUNK/NEW WAVE/POST PUNKの名作であるナイチンゲールのデビュー作は、世間でのトレンドが変わりつつある中でリリースされた奇妙な作品で、初期パンクの衝動をルーツに持つ最後の重要なバンドであり、80年代半ばに爆発的に増えたインディーレーベルや関連バンドに大きな影響を与えたバンド。本枚組には初期のデモ曲やアルバム以外のシングル曲が追加収録!!

The first Nightingales album is a perfect example of out-of-sync genius given its original release in 1982. As post-punk impulses transmuted into new pop sheen and initial stabs towards jangly indie took hold in England, Robert Lloyd and company made a rumbling, crabby album that could only be compared to the Fall (and no less than Mark E. Smith approved of Lloyds sharp, character-portrait lyrics). If Pigs on Purpose is, from a distance, a bit of a muted affair compared to later work -- even the 2004 re-release sounds fairly gauzy, though one has to wonder a bit about the remastering at points -- the sense of confrontation without simply being punk rock as such remains. Lloyds fellow Prefects compatriot Alan Apperley plays drums with an ear for attacking the listener just so -- check the brawling breaks on One Mistake -- while the swaggering rockabilly-meets-late-night jazz feeling of songs like It Lives Again and Joking Apart surely had to have been an unspoken influence on later bands like Gallon Drunk. Meanwhile, some of Lloyds imagery really should have won literary prizes somewhere -- beginning with a pseudo-folk a cappella arrangement for Well Done Underdog with the words Did you hear about the Irishman who opened a tandoori restaurant? the type of thing most bands wouldnt even think to try. The 2004 reissue includes the B-sides from the Use Your Loaf single as well as everything from the Paraffin Brain and Urban Ospreys singles -- the B-side Elvis the Last Ten Days, supposedly detailing his previously unreleased diary entries, is a total keeper. Meanwhile, Lloyds liner notes are just what one would hope for from the man, detailed as well as sharply funny as hell. ~ Ned Raggett