The AK Band - The Manhole Kids
1981 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Ak Band
The Manhole Kids
Genre: New Wave
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
8, 3, 12
Walnuts Moleteazerz
Mister President
Sea of Smart
Manhole Kids
This would be great…if it wasn’t a direct rip of The Police’s sound.
Everything. The bass lines. The semi-falsetto. The faux-reggae. It’s like a Police cover band wrote their own songs.
This is a Police record. With heavier guitars.
Remarkable.
Remember when we all loved Men at Work but thought they sounded a LOT like Sting and the gang? This takes that sound and rams some herky-jerky new wave angles onto it and that makes it all the more delicious.
(Except for “Walnuts Moleteazerz”, that’s just bonkers. And the title track, which really should have been a single. And led off the record.)
The whole album is just one New Wave Power Pop smash after another.
A forgotten band that never really had a chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvPHob46Yg&list=PLFFF2DBD0EFC38A8D
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