Adam and the Ants — Prince Charming
Author: tracysigler | Posted: April 21st, 2008 | | Tags: 1981, Adam and the Ants, ant music, glam, music, new romantic, new wave, postpunk, vinyl | 4 Comments »
Yes! Let us celebrate these fancy pirates. I am certain if more people would run this look on the street today that the world would be a better place. But it takes real men to wear makeup, puffy shirts, and curtains for pants. And there just aren’t that many left.
Calling all available backup! Jeff? Kilwag? I know you’re out there. Cover me. I’m going in. This is a great record. That’s despite the frequently self-referential lyrics. The music on Prince Charming (1981) is as fresh and weird as the costumes worn by Adam and the Ants. The album opens with the giant-sounding “Scorpios,” complete with brass horns and a house-shaking drum fill near the end that makes me want to yell “Ant Power!” It sounds like the Hawaii 5-0 theme meets salsa music meets pirate rock. Other favorites include “Picasso Visita el Planeta de los Simios” and of course the super hit “Stand and Deliver.” There is also a “hidden” track, after a long pause at the end of the album, called “The Lost Hawaiians.”
I don’t know where I got this one, but you can see from the wear on the cover that back in the day it was in heavy rotation. Ant music for ant people!
Etched in the run off margins (can’t etch an MP3):
Side 1: HAVE YOU FOUND
Side 2: THE LOST HAWAIIANS
I got ya covered….
Yes…a fun, fantastic piece of vinyl and clearly a departure from everything else that was coming out of the UK at the time. What kid didn’t want to be a pirate at some point. It had the flash of the New Romantics but none of the monotone synths (hear me Heaven 17!). Great sing alongs mate.
But…it was NO hexbreaker:)
Flava Flav was right. 9-1-1 is a joke. I thought you would never get here.
The first time I saw this album cover and music video, I was shocked, and I asked myself: “What kind of “Prince Charming” dresses like a pirate and wears face paint?”
I’ll admit I laughed afterward!
I saw the video, and I thought it was BOTH weird and funny!