8 Eyed Spy - 8 Eyed Spy
#483
October 18 1981
8 Eyed Spy
8 Eyed Spy
Genre: Post-Punk at it’s Postness
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Love Split
Requisite 80s cover: “Diddy Wah Diddy”. It opens the album but I’m not taking that as a sign that the originals are weak, more of an announcement that this is a rock album of sorts and that it’s meant to be fun, despite the pedigrees.
“Swamp/Run Through the Jungle” are virtually unrecognizable as they should be. And they become a lot more haunting while staying true to Fogerty’s message.
An ugly and unnecessary cover of “I Want Candy”. Just…why?
Was 8 Eyed Spy a post-punk supergroup of sorts? Or just a side project?
No matter, this is what it sounds like if you take a bunch of post-punk poets and musicians and let them loose in a studio to have as much fun as they can using their respective talents to their fullest.
There’s a bunch of live stuff on here and it all gets hodgepodgey toward the end and would have been better as an EP.
Oh well. It’s a thing that exists that I heard. That’s the review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUEov0cFKgM
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