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The Vibrators Pure Mania (1977)
Originally Released 1977\nCD Edition Released December 29, 1990 or January 1991\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Were the Vibrators real punks? Maybe not, but then again, were the Stranglers? Or Eddie and the Hot Rods? Even more to the point, was Steve Jones? Plenty of rock careerists jumped onto the punk/new wave bandwagon in the wake of the Sex Pistols' success (and more than a few folks, like Jones, stumbled into the new movement by accident), but unlike most of them, the Vibrators took to the fast/loud/stripped down thing like ducks to water, and both Knox (aka Ian Carnarchan) and Pat Collier had a genius for writing short, punchy songs with sneering melody lines and gutsy guitar breaks. If the Vibrators were into punk as a musical rather than a sociopolitical movement, it's obvious that they liked the music very much, and on that level their debut album stands the test of time quite well. Pure Mania boasts a bit more polish (and less politics) than many of the albums from punk's first graduating class (such as Damned Damned Damned or The Clash), but if you're looking for a strong, satisfying shot of chugging four-square punk, cue up "Yeah Yeah Yeah," "No Heart," "Petrol," or "Wrecked on You" and you'll be thrown into a gleeful pogo frenzy. Maybe Pure Mania isn't purist's punk, but it's pure rock & roll, and there's nothing wrong with that. -- Mark Deming\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nPure Mania is a terrific relic of the punk era by a London band that owes much more to the Ramones than the Sex Pistols. Light on anger and nihilism but heavy on humor and fun, it's a blitz of twisted love songs ("Sweet Sweet Heart," Wrecked on You," etc.) with an ode to bondage thrown in for good measure. Label it music to shake your brains to. The Vibrators apparently thought they were playing pop music for the end of the decade (the '70s, that is), oblivious to the fact that the masses (especially in America) could never have been expected to catch on. That doesn't mean you shouldn't. --Mike Corrigan \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nVibrator's, June 19, 2005\nReviewer: XraySpex\nI think Hangar Eighteen summed things up best. As for the negative review I can understand that one too. I was somewhat unimpressed on first listen and the anti-drug sentiment and lack of rebelliosness did put me off a bit, but after living with this album for a while I can say nothing generates as much fun and pleasure as this one. I even love the preachy "Stay Clean". It could be my favorite album of all time if the lyrics were a bit raunchier, but even with that shortcoming it always gets played when I need an adrenaline rush and it has a lot of tough competition as I have 1000's of CD's(just mentioned so the reader knows it ain't easy to get played). Right now it is in my top 10 list of favorite CD's as well. A punk classic.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nMarvelous blast of blues tinged pogo, April 30, 2005\nReviewer: R. T. Shepherd (Chas, South Carolina USA)\nThis CD is magical, and one of the few blues infused cocktails served up in punk '77. The band must have been playing twelve bar tripe around London for years -they are tight! -and one day they discovered punk. Well, what do we do now, mates? Try as they might, the blues licks are still there, emerging from the delicious chord structures at just the right emotional high point. "Baby baby baby" could have been either shortened or left off the CD. Otherwise, this piece of musical history is perfect.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\ndid i miss something?, December 22, 2004\nReviewer: H. Quinn\ni found this to be a highly overrated album. it was unexciting and unoriginal, and there was nothing at all edgy about it. in fact, there was an anti-drug song on it! now, i dont like drugs at all myself, but there is no place for an anti-drug song on what is supposed to be a good, threatening punk rock record. do yourself a favor and but something by the stiff little fingers, the stooges, the damned, crass, or something like that.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThese Vibrators didn't need batteries!, August 23, 2004\nReviewer: hangar-eighteen (Fallbrook, CA United States)\nThe Vibrators were a little older and wiser than their brit-punk brethren in the late 70's. They were already veterans of the pub rock scene in Britain when they recorded this. None of that prevents Pure Mania from taking it's rightful place alongside landmark British Punk albums like Never Mind the Bullocks it's the Sex Pistols, Damned, Damned, Damned, The Clash, Singles Going Steady (Buzzcocks), Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts, and Pink Flag (Wire). \n\nIn fact, this album is superior to many of those albums in some respects. It's as melodic and consistent as the Buzzcocks, as terse and minimal as Wire, (almost) as demented as the Sex Pistols. It also has an element of fun you might find in the Damned or Adverts. They didn't try to communicate a message like the Clash did but they were connected to roots music in a similar way. \n\nIf you are a devotee of Punk and don't have this in your collection, you should be ashamed. Buy it now and then just sit back and enjoy. Trust me, you won't regret your purchase. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWhat it was like to be a college aged music fan in 1977, March 3, 2002\nReviewer: David Pearlman "sound fanatic" (Arlington, MA United States)\nI'll start off by saying that I've never _loved_ this album musically. While it's better than 99% of all the contemporary punk stuff that was coming out when it was issued, it's really not a musical challenger for the better post-punk/new-wave/whatever music that was soon to push punk aside (think Clash "London Calling", Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model", the best of the Buzzcocks, any of the Ramones albums [which were never really punk], etc.) That said, of its time and place, it was head of its class. The Vibrators were much more musical than their punk brothers...The lyrics are fairly one dimensional (and sex obsessed), but did anyone care? Naw...it was the sound, rush and bounce...always the sound, rush and bounce. That's why this album was a keeper in 1977 and is a keeper in 2002.\n\nIf you were of the right age and ran in the correct circles in 1977, you will recall this album as the perfect soundtrack to many a mind-altered, pogofested party. And ... if doesn't sound exactly that way today. Put it on your CD player, crack open a keg, and let the good times roll! If you weren't old enough (or even around) in 1977, now you can understand what it was like.\n\nThis album won't change your life. But it will surely make you smile.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe forgotten heroes of the UK punk scene, March 3, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nThe Vibrators released the second UK punk single (after the Damned and before the Sex Pistols) and this was the third UK punk album (after the Damned and the Clash but again before the Sex Pistols). Despite their historic importance the Vibrators have never really received the recognition they deserve, partly because they didn't have a Malcolm McLaren or a Bernie Rhodes behind them and partly because they didn't have (or want) a gimmick. The Damned had their wild burlesque, the Clash their political sloganeering and the Sex Pistols..... well they were the Sex Pistols!!! The Vibrators, however were content just to churn out finely crafted rock songs - main man Knox in particular has created some of the grittiest love songs this side of Lou Reed. They are still going today. No, not reformed like so many old punk bands recently, STILL GOING. Still producing great records (currently working on what I believe will be their 13th studio album) and still not so much underrated as just plain forgoten about. This is a crime.\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Robin Mayhew, The Vibrators \n\nAlbum Notes\nThe Vibrators: Knox (vocals, guitar, keyborads); John Ellis (vocals, guitar); Pat Collier (vocals, bass); Eddie (drums).\n\nA stirring debut album by a first wave British punk band? In a manner of speaking. Actually, the Vibrators--all of whom were at least ten years older than the Pistols or the Clash--were total poseurs, long term scene veterans and wannabes who found themselves, finally, in the right place at the right time when punk broke. Although the Vibrators didn't really (in the immortal words of Johnny Rotten) "mean it," at least they were able to come up with a likable formula--essentially, a mix of the Ramones three-chords-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach. To this mixture they added the pop side of the Velvet Underground and a certain deadpan British wit (as witnessed by the tenderly romantic "I Need a Slave"). Like most punk artifacts of the period, PURE MANIA has moments that now sound somewhat quaint, but its energy is still irresistibly infectious.
This rock cd contains 15 tracks and runs 35min 0sec.
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