#75
1980 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Fingerprintz
Distinguishing Marks
Genre: Power New Wave
4.75 Out of 5
Highlights:
Amnesia
Houdini Love
Bullet Proof Heart
Yes Eyes
Ringing Tone
I am having the same experience as I did the first time I popped a borrowed cassette of New Clear Days by the Vapors into a walkman in the 80s in the game room of The Eps restaurant in Bar Harbor.
Or when I bought that Rezillos CD and heard them for the first time, a decade and a half after it’s release in my dining room of my apartment in West Hollywood.
These guys are tight. They are relatively “generic Power Pop/New Wave” sounding. But they do the style perfectly and the songs are excellent. It’s no wonder these guys were in high demand as backing bands go.
What I want from my Power Pop/New Wave is edgy songs with catchy hooks, tight, taut playing, no showboating and razor sharp knowledge of when to get the fuck out of a song.
This has that in spades. It’s lousy with it. I am angry at myself for not having heard of them before.
Did you know that Fingerprintz were the backing band on Rachel Sweet’s album Protect the Innocent? Maybe that’s why it was so delicious. And the guitarist Cha Burns and and the drummer, Bogdan Wiczling were in Adam Ant’s backing band in the early 80s!
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