Jimmy Pursey albums are like waiting for a Bus in England..........
Yet again thanks to Sir TakeOff for providing us with a new decent copy of this.
Tracks
Side 1
1) Die In Disneyland
2) Kamakazi Davey
3) Animals In Carnival
4) Attractions
Side 2
1) Movement Interior
2) On Bits Of Paper
3) Speechless Like Poverty
4) Revenge Is Not The...Password
22 comments:
Again... Cheers!
Your welcome mate. Believe it or not I actually want his other album now. I think I need therapy or something!
Hah! Riot!
This particular LP used to drive my friends to points of attacking my turntable. (They hated them all, but this one, well, it just got right under thier skin!) They all felt so betrayed that he would do this to them. Watching them froth at the mouth while screaming "turn it off!" was, in itself, well worth the price of the LP.
But I still think it's great. Looking forward to hearing Kamakazi Davey, for certain.
I didn't even know there was another Pursey LP!
Yea this one mate
http://www.discogs.com/release/1554518
From 97 so its probably worse than the others. I do like "On Bits Of Paper" on this one though to be fair to Jimmy.
It's all good for me. But most people think I have rocks in my head on this particular subject....
Cheers for the link. I see it's got "Die In Disneyland" and I'm guessing "Death Dr. War might be another version of "Kamakazi Davey"....? Certainly a line from the song.
And then he just vanished...? I heard something about an acting career, but as best as I can see from the IMDB all he does is play himself.
He turns up for the odd England World Cup single too (Hurry Up England (Harry) in 2006.
Good to know he's still working. Time for another Sham 69 reunion, I think.
Sham are still going mate......without Pursey. Theres alot of bad blood between Jimmy and Dave Parsons about it. Such a shame as Jimmy belongs in Sham.
Yeah, I had heard that.
I agree, it's not the same without him.
It's funny but there were and are a lot of punk musicians out there who really didn't like Jimmy Pursey.
As I recall Joe Strummer went out of his way to slag him on the live Clash Lp and there's this comedic gem...
Jimmy Pursey on . . .
. . . his recent reunion outside the US embassy with Johnny Rotten, whom he has had a simmering feud with since the 70s: "I knew there'd be trouble when he swaggered in, so I said: 'Let's put this rubbish behind us,' and offered my hand. Next thing I knew, he'd thrown his coffee over me."
Maybe Jimmy doesn't play well with others...
Well I only take people as I find them mate. I met Jimmy in London once in a cafe and had a good yap with him. I used to speak to him on the phone alot too. He was always alright in my book as were all the Sham lads. I used to be Sham mad hence the loyalty with buying the Jimmy/Wanderers/Lords Of The New Church stuff.
Cool! Sounds like a really good guy. I was never even lucky enough to see him perform. A real shame. But Sham 69 always was, and always will be, a favourite. And, as you know, I'm a fan of his solo stuff as well. :)
Speaking of JP, just stumbled across this interesting interview from 2006. Got to know more about him here than in anything i'd heard since the early 80's:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jimmy-pursey-hurry-up-jimmy-405331.html
Best part is the identification of Harry (from Hurry Up Harry):
Harry was "an old English sheepdog I knew that kept shitting in the garden".
All-time classic!!
lol cheers for the link ponk. Interesting reading there.
you have jimmy first band THE PUBLIC PISSTAKE-My Own Creation 7''?
Never heard of it anon. Are you sure this isn't a public pisstake of your own?
As for Jimmy, didn't realise he had a new band now called Day 21
http://www.myspace.com/hershamboys
A single coming out in January!
Thanks to ponkmedia for the link to the article. Just read it. Jeese, the poor guy. Literally. 5 single in the top 20, a punk icon and what does he get? Living in a carvan. An 18 year old manager and a few meagre thousand from Playstation (fanx sony) and McDonalds.
I'll definitely be buying his single. If I could, I'd send the money for it right to him.
hello. i just came by searching for a specific Jimmy Pursey info. let me just tell you that i am an avid Pursey fan since 1982, when i found the 'Alien Orphan' LP. Later a good friend gave me the 'Revenge Is Not The Password' LP. I had no idea that he was the frontman of Sham 69. I never liked S69 too much, i must admit. Then i bought the 'Imagination Camouflage'. The three vinyls have never failed to amaze me. Words fail me to describe how good this music is. Also check out the 1996/1997 released Cds with 'modern' remixes of some of the best songs of 'Revenge Is Not The Password'. See http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimmy+Pursey Quoted from an interview with Jimmy Pursey,
unfortunately no longer available on the Internet:
Question one:
What would you do? If your manager's gone, your home has gone, your girlfriends nearly gone and you're thinking 'Revenge is not the password' ?
Now then. Andy Anderson, i believed, could help me develop a sound in Surrey sound studios in Leatherhead where The Police (thats the band) would record most of their sounds with the in-house producer.
Nice man, gave him the cash from what i had left from the house sale to make the album.
We have had the falklands. We have had Palestine. We had 1984 knocking on the door.
I wanted a very Rhythmic drum sound, a lot of base, not much guitar.
Unordinary to music but normal in everyday life sounds.
Rhythms, echoes and uncliched slogans.
As to what was going on around me i felt the last leaves on the tree falling off me.
After going to Elephant Fayre in Cornwall with my lastest production, long pig from Guildford who was found at the end of the garden sniffing glue, and a singer who was a goat shepherd (true) only London appearance supporting The Specimen Sex Gang Children (alien sex fiend) etc at Heaven, the Bat Cave.
I was streched from head to toe, but my balls were on the table my money
was where my mouth was, whatever had gone on before had now been stretched to its limit.
So my identifcation on this album was a before and after of my own self analysis and what was around me.
Die in Disneyland, Kamicazi Davey & Attractions were very early drum and base so of course the press said: "he's only got drum and base on these tracks".
That's right, seventeen years later they would accuse me of jumping on the band wagon.
I love bands but i don't like wagons.
This is a very filmatic panoramic blend of paranoia and observation.
yes, this is a very good description:
This is a very filmatic panoramic blend of paranoia and observation
Interesting stuff Sir Take Off. Thanks for sharing that
Thanks for all these Pursey items; thoroughly enjoying them!
I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but when I uncompress the RAR for this, I get an error message, and there's no track 2 (Kamikaze Diary). Downloaded it twice and the same thing each time...
Great blog all-around!
I've linked you on my piddly blog.
--P
Sorry about that Pete. Winrar here plays up when it feels like it.
Heres track 2 for ya
http://www.mediafire.com/?ndzdmmno2mj
Thanks, Longy!
I've just noticed your comment now (and 30 others). I put on comment moderation after deleting like 100 Chinese comments from "sexy", and didn't see the little moderration link.
Really I can be such a doofuss about these things...
No worries Pete. That "sexy" (whos probably a 55 year bloke with a zz top beard) spammed me too.
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