The Korgis - Dumb Waiters
#293
July 1 1980
The Korgis
Dumb Waiters
Genre: New Wave
3.75 out of 5
Blockbuster movies are released in the summer. People are out. Kids aren’t stuck in school, they are in the world with summer jobs and beach trips and bikes and camping and families are on vacation.
You take your coca-cola can transistor radio with you to the lake and sneak a beer with your dad.
You might go to a concert or a festival or a summer town.
You know what you don’t do, apparently? Buy music. Because the summer months are loaded with trash. Just one bad album after another.
Sure, there are occasional bursts of excellence but the sheer volume of crap dumped in the summer is vast. Because that’s the time for pop.
This album is just hyper derivative. I think of it more like fans of the Bay City Rollers decided to start a band. Which should be a compliment since BR had some good records.
(However, later, on “It’s No Good Unless You Love Me” I swear I hear the beginnings of Belle & Sebastian-esque/Camera Obscura Twee)
I did enjoy the wooziness of “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime” and the wannabe 70s player piano glam of “Dirty Postcards” but not enough to listen to them again.
It gets better as we go, though. Argh. I don’t hate it!
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