🎵 AotW AOTW: Sad Cafe - MISPLACED IDEALS (SP-4737)

[LPJim]

Sad Cafe
MISPLACED IDEALS
A&M SP-4737

Sad Cafe formed in Manchester, England, in the late 1970s.

Personnel:
Paul Young - vocals (later of Mike & the Mechanics; died 2000)
Ian Wilson - guitar
Vic Emmerson - keyboards
John Stimpson & Dave "Des" Tong - bass
Dave Irving & Jeff Seopardi - drums
Ashley Mulford - guitar
Lenni - sax & vocals

TRACKS:

Restless 4:37
Here Come the Clowns 4:01
Run Home Girl 4:57
Black Rose 4:37
I Believe Love Will Survive 4:34

Babylon 3:41
Shellshock 3:15
Hungry Eyes 5:28
Feel Like Dying 4:09
On With the Show 5:14

Reissued on CD individually and as a two-for-one with 'FACADES.'

Please visit the official site:


http://www.sadcafe.co.uk/main.html?mcframe=http://www.sadcafe.co.uk/index.html


JB

 

[Mr Bill]

I've added the original cover which, ultimately, was not used in the US release. Deemed inappropriate for US audiences at the time, A&M opted for a hi-rez graphic art design at the last moment so as to not to offend.

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Well....appropriate or not, I like the American cover much better. That was a classy album and the US cover is clearly the classier image, IMHO.

 

[Vinylalbumcovers]

Yeah, the first cover is a lot nicer. That second cover was an idea that should have stayed an idea. Very unsettling and just gross...

Ed

 

[Mr Bill]

I agree the cover that WAS used was the better one. When I first read about and then saw the other cover my initial reaction was shock. I added it for completeness's sake, and do so whenever I know of an alternate cover (not to include foruiegn releases).

After more than two decades of listening to the LP, I believe the red cover "fits" the music better than the art the group wanted -- classy image, classy music. The band's desired cover would fit a much more hard-rock sound than what they actually performed...

--Mr Bill