General Article name: Beach Party
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: CHERRY RED Number of tracks: 16 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Marine Girls - In Love 2. Marine Girls - Fridays 3. Marine Girls - Tonight? 4. Marine Girls - Times We Used To Spend 5. Marine Girls - Flying Over Russia 6. Marine Girls - Tutti Lo Sanno 7. Marine Girls - All Dressed Up 8. Marine Girls - Honey 9. Marine Girls - Holiday Song 10. Marine Girls - He Got The Girl 11. Marine Girls - Day/Night Dreams 12. Marine Girls - Promises 13. Marine Girls - Silent Red 14. Marine Girls - Dishonesty 15. Marine Girls - 20,000 Leagues 16. Marine Girls - Marine Girls   Description Description

The debut album by the Marine Girls is one of the most willfully amateurish releases of its era, which is not necessarily a bad thing. When it was first released on Daniel Treacy's Whaam! label in 1981, it undoubtedly sounded impossibly shoddy and nearly inept, filled with deliberately out-of-tune vocals, extremely minimal guitar and bass, and almost no percussion. However, its place as one of the pillars of the twee pop scene, along with the Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth, is now incontestable, and what once might have seemed haphazard instead sounds refreshingly artless and slyly provocative. Tracey Thorn, whose vocals would gain much more technical polish during her years in Everything But the Girl, sings with a sort of offhand grace, while Alice Fox' more tuneless yelp sounds like a precursor to Kathleen Hanna or Sleater-Kinney. The songs are monochromatic, though a few, particularly the opening "In Love," manage to marry memorable tunes to the group's deliberate minimalism. This is not an album for anyone who requires a lot of studio polish, but Beach Party is far from the grating tunelessness that some early reviewers labeled it. ~ Stewart Mason

Stewart Mason

Contributors Artist: Marine Girls Record Label: Cherry Red Phonograph