The Real Haircut 100 - Short Back And Sides pre-Arista album
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:21 amI haven't seen anything about this, but I apologize if this is a repeat post.
I found an old issue of New Sounds New Styles from 1981 and in it there was an article about Haircut 100 and their debut album currently being recorded. The article mentioned a few tracks I hadn't heard ("Chunky Puzzle" and "Blue Penguins") so I did a google...
The first thing I was brought to was a Spotify page for something called The Real Haircut 100. The album "Short Back And Sides" featured both the songs I was trying to track down. A little more googling led me to this:
http://therealhaircut100.blogspot.com/2 ... chive.html
A blogspot for The Real Haircut 100, featuring a handful of posts from around 2012. Many of them boasting this "Short Back And Sides" album that supposedly was on iTunes, Amazon and eMusic. Unfortunately all the links are dead. The Spotify version of the album isn't in my country, so I can't confirm if that's been pulled or not, but I'd imagine it has. (if there's anyone in the UK who could check, it would be appreciated)
A little more googling led me to this: a website called OkMusic has samples of two songs from the album including an early version of "Favourite Shirts" and another new track called "Go Motion."
http://okmusic.jp/#!/i/collections/1114 ... des%201981
Did anyone manage to snag this while it was available? Does anyone know the full tracklisting? Who was involved in getting this out there? Can anyone answer these burning questions?
Thanks!
Dominik
I found an old issue of New Sounds New Styles from 1981 and in it there was an article about Haircut 100 and their debut album currently being recorded. The article mentioned a few tracks I hadn't heard ("Chunky Puzzle" and "Blue Penguins") so I did a google...
The first thing I was brought to was a Spotify page for something called The Real Haircut 100. The album "Short Back And Sides" featured both the songs I was trying to track down. A little more googling led me to this:
http://therealhaircut100.blogspot.com/2 ... chive.html
A blogspot for The Real Haircut 100, featuring a handful of posts from around 2012. Many of them boasting this "Short Back And Sides" album that supposedly was on iTunes, Amazon and eMusic. Unfortunately all the links are dead. The Spotify version of the album isn't in my country, so I can't confirm if that's been pulled or not, but I'd imagine it has. (if there's anyone in the UK who could check, it would be appreciated)
A little more googling led me to this: a website called OkMusic has samples of two songs from the album including an early version of "Favourite Shirts" and another new track called "Go Motion."
http://okmusic.jp/#!/i/collections/1114 ... des%201981
Did anyone manage to snag this while it was available? Does anyone know the full tracklisting? Who was involved in getting this out there? Can anyone answer these burning questions?
Thanks!
Dominik