The 1986 Listening Post - The Delmonas - Delmonas 5

The Delmonas - Delmonas 5

#119/1284

1986 Housekeeping

The Delmonas

Delmonas 5

Genre: Retro 60s Girl Group

2.5 out of 5

Billy Childish, a British Kim Fowley of sorts, is back at it with the girl group he put together the year before. That album was crisp and full of fun and surprises. This one opens with the theme song to Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and I don’t really understand why. Aside from a couple Childish tunes there’s a bunch of covers that have been run through the Delmonas taffy machine but the flavor is all vanilla. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/delmonas-5/893327176

The 1985 Listening Post - The Delmonas - Dangerous Charms

The Delmonas - Dangerous Charms

#108

1985 Housekeeping

The Delmonas

Dangerous Charms

Genre: 60s Revival

4 out of 5

Highlights:

Wow Now

Who is Billy Childish?

No, really. Who is he?

This is a progenitor of The Pipettes. It seems like Childish put together a faux-sixties girl group, wrote a couple tracks and then produced a bunch of covers. 

You know what?

It’s totally listenable. 

Are you having a party?

Will you be putting on some, say, B52s? Add this one to that set. Seriously. The first two B52s records, this one and the first Pipettes record and you have about 3 hours of excellent retro party stuff.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dangerous-charms/590086319