Diesel Park
West aren't one of my most powerful hankerings, and maybe not many others as
well, but I thought a few of you might enjoy this.
My own
appreciation of them revolves more around certain songs, not so much entire
albums. These tunes were cut in anticipation of the band's 1989 debut,
Shakespeare Alabama. It's "modern
rock" in perhaps the most commercial sense, but there are some real
stunners here in the guise of the jangly "All The Myths on Sunday,"
and the more anthemic "When the Hoodoo Comes."
If you're
looking for a few lazy comparisons, DPW run/ran the same gamut as contemporaries
Mission UK, latter-80s Alarm, and occasionally Simple Minds.
Like the
aforementioned, these Leicester, UK chaps emanated something resembling a
social conscience, without ever getting too pious. This set is well worth checking out, even
though the finished versions were minimally revised from these prototypes.
1. Like Princes Do
2. All the Myths on Sunday
3. Bell of Hope
4. Out of Nowhere
5. The Waking
Hour
6. When the Hoodoo Comes
7. Opportunity Crazy
8. Here I Stand
9. Jackie's Still Sad
10. A House Divided
11. Don't Be Scared of the Night
12. What About Us
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