The Fleshtones — Fleshtones Vs. Reality
Author: tracysigler | Posted: February 12th, 2007 | | Tags: 1987, Fleshtones, garage rock, music, pop rock, rock and roll, super rock, vinyl | 1 Comment »
- Artist: The Fleshtones
- Title: Fleshtones Vs. Reality
- Year: 1987
- Format: Vinyl 12 in.
- Rating (1-10): 8
- Owner: Tracy
- Acquired: 1987 – Bought it when I worked at Mother’s Records and Tapes in Hampton, VA
- Keeper: Yes
My memories of Fleshtones Vs. Reality are fuzzier than those of the records The Fleshtones made before it. I remember the songs, just not note-for-note. Must’ve been busy that year. I did get to see the boys that same year at the great ol’ 930 Club in D.C, at its original location on F Street. Check out the ticket stub below, only $8! In 1987! That was half a lifetime ago for me, oof.
Anyhow, this record seems a little more mature, in a good way, but the good time music is still what it’s all about. Also, the horns seem bigger and badder than before. As I have said a few times before you can’t achieve maximum rock and roll, or Fleshtones’ “Super Rock”, without horns. I like all the songs, and my favorite is probably “Way Up Here” with that sweet sounding recorder riff. Side two has another Fleshtones-style club banger in “The End of The Track”, complete with wailing alarms and sirens. And this concludes the posts of official Fleshtones records… or does it?
Hi!
So, I saw this tour too, in Connecticut, and my friend and I who went are RACKING our brains to remember the name of the club where we saw them. It was some tiny place, in some tiny CT town near the coast (or maybe in Westchester county NY- it was all dark backroads to get there)… I know this is really vague, but if anyone out there in the interwebs can remember seeing the Fleshtones in a tiny bar in CT in 1987, boy, we’d love to know the name! Thanks!!!
erica