Terrible!

I've been a little down lately. Not for any specific reason, just the normal hills and valleys of third-winter and universal cacophony. I want to hear something terrible.

I've got just the thing. Disko. Not with a "c," with a "k." This isn't your typical boring old compilation album of 70s cheese, it's a cover-band album from Pickwick Records' in-house, third string, not at all suspiciously anonymous Disko Band. 50 cents is practically grand larceny if you were expecting the actual original recordings, but if you want to belly laugh at rhythmic bungles, out of tune horns, and the worst falsetto ever committed to tape,  then this is easily worth the 7 dollar cover charge and 3 drink minimum.

You get 2, count 'em 2, kung fu songs (i assume that's Carl Douglas's entire oeuvre), a mediocre Rock the Boat, and all the sweaty polyester you can imagine. I promise it gets worse and worse as the album progresses.

Why am i so happy about it? Because it was clearly recorded in an afternoon by a bunch of shysters who almost certainly tried to deduct cocaine under "office supplies" on their expense reports. Lou Reed was a staff songwriter and session musician for Pickwick early in his career, and that's how he met John Cale in the first place. See, something interesting fell out of it after all.

It's not supposed to be good, it's supposed to fluff up the discount bin, and for making your friends look like they smelled a dog fart, it's spectacular. You'll be limping back to your table from the disco round in no time.

It took forever to get the copyright claim fixed because "Do It" is the actual B.T. Express version and i let youtube cut out a chunk from it to make the video viewable. I don't blame 'em, i wouldn't want my name on this thing either.

https://youtu.be/_DADQEuKACU

... which begs the question, what was England exporting from their own charts in the post-Beatles early 1970s? Blue Mink, apparently.

It's a little funky, but interesting. You can find tracks from their US release Real Mink on youtube, but they were a compilation band in and of themselves. Their albums were really just random songs as far as i can tell. They don't suck. This really was pop in 70s England.

That was a let down. Sorry. I'll be more creative tomorrow.

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