On this date in 1982, The dB's released their second album, Repercussion.The album contained the singles, "Living A Lie" and "Neverland".The New York power pop band, made up of natives of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, disbanded in 1987 after four albums. How can you not win with music so upbeat, accessible, and inventive? The dB’s - Repercussion Album Lyrics; 1.
From a Window to a Screen: 3. If that doesn't work, please visit our help page. The Beatles became the biggest rock group in history, but their offspring-- from Big Star to XTC to the dB's-- barely touched the charts. So it goes.The dB's, an early-to-mid-80s southern jangle pop band from Winston-Salem via New York City, got more bad breaks than most. “Nothing Is Wrong” is as close to a Big Star-type track and for me, a blueprint – I freely admit this track informed and influenced my own songwriting – it’s a beautiful, slow, emotionally colored number and a highlight.
How long can you grow your hair?"
Neverland: 6. dbs repercussion “In Spain” rocks fast and furiously and “I Feel Good (Today)” is Stamey’s other artistic masterpiece. If there’s one album that I can automatically point to/at which helped me – helped to shape me as a songwriter and start to hone my craft by way of really structuring songs and using interesting lyrical subject matter within the framework of a “pop” song, it’s The dB’s 1982 masterpiece, I don’t think it’s necessary to go into a lengthy history of The dB’s – their website is a perfect place to have all questions answered and all colors filled in – so I’ll stick to this album.
Happenstance 4. 1. Genres: Power Pop, Jangle Pop. And all this while retaining such a distinct sound; unlike many guitar-pop bands of the time, the dB's preferred a live, unpolished sound to glossy 80s production.While lead singers and songwriters Holsapple and Chris Stamey didn't exactly have the strongest voices, they knew how to wrap their vocals around a catchy line, and more importantly, how to sing about a girl like they meant it. and Mitch Easter's Let's Active. Sure, but we're stuck with Aerosmith. Taut, tense, almost claustrophobic; it shifts from soft on the verses to rave-up on the choruses and explodes from quiet to manic on the middle 8.
Amplifier: 2. Released in April 1982 on I.R.S. New posts every Friday. Nothing Is Wrong: 7. My version of Repercussion (differences in track order between the American and European editions) opens with the shiver-inducing “Happenstance” – one of Chris Stamey’s most perfectly realized pieces. The Beatles became ...Every time a great pop band bombs, the fans and critics scratch their heads and wonder why.
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A blog that celebrates the music of The dB's, its members, and their many collaborations over the years. It's been three decades since the original lineup of Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Gene Holder and Will Rigby recorded the beloved early-'80s classics Stands for deciBels and Repercussion.
He resides in Staten Island, New York with his wife and cats; he works out a lot, reads voraciously, loves Big Star and his orange Gretsch.
But as I set this disc next to my other cult band reissues, I think about what Alex Chilton once said about his career: "Somewhere along the line I figured out that if you only press up one hundred copies of a record, then eventually it will find its way to the one hundred people in the world who want it the most." Repercussion, an Album by The dB's.
You can dance to it, but you sure as hell can't neck to it.
Repercussion(1982) Like This(1984) The Sound of Music(1987) Two albums of previously unreleased dB's music came out after they broke up: Ride the Wild TomTom(1993) Paris Avenue (1994) These six albums all feature discrete collections of dB's recordings, and (especially on CD) contain all but a handful of the officially released dB's tracks. 81001; Vinyl LP). Living a Lie 2. Look at the Beatles, and then pull out a photo of Big Star and try to pick "the cute one." I Feel Good (Today) 4. My criteria is always fairly simple – no filler, strong tracks, memorable songs start to finish – and if I (for argument’s sake) find one or two songs to be merely “good” and not “great”, then that’s pretty perfect. The dB's - Pandora. Repercussion is the second studio album by American power pop band the dB’s, released in 1982 by Albion Records. And Turn the album over and it’s just as meaty – “Neverland” starts it off with its unforgettable riff, rhythm and never-to-be-forgotten lyrics that you’ll find yourself singing as the years go by.
We Were Happy There 3. Those hooks, those great guitar licks...But it's important to remember that no band, no matter how good, has a birthright to stardom. Watching the dB's fans-- from the early college DJs who managed to find these albums, to the niche labels who reissue them today-- it's reassuring to find that Chilton was right. Please, I urge you -- give the dB's a chance. Every time a great pop band bombs, the fans and critics scratch their heads and wonder why.
The bands hoped to conquer the school proms and teeny boppers, but Big Star's Alex Chilton later speculated on their true fanbase: "I think it just sorta strikes a resonant chord with people who are in the same boat [as we were]-- you know, confused, twenty-year-old college students with a guitar in their hands." The albums on this two-for-one reissue CD-- Yet, the band were always critical favorites, and played a major part in spawning the "jangle-pop" sound later perfected by R.E.M. Storm … The musicians aren't even sexy. The albums on this two-for-one reissue CD-- Stands for deciBels and Repercussion-- weren't even released in the States until after the band broke … Doesn't that make him neat?
Atop their two-guitar line-up, the dB's experiment with keyboards and effects, firing rounds of world class hooks at fans' feet and daring them not to pogo.