Candy Opera – 45 Revolutions Per Minutes (Firestation) CD

Product Description

Lovingly unearthed and compiled by Firestation Records of Berlin, and available on limited edition 18-track CD and deluxe 16-track vinyl, the result is a lost gem that points to a million what-might- have-beens. When Candy Opera first appeared on the kaleidoscopic early 1980s Liverpool music scene, by rights they should have changed the world. Here was a classic four-piece, after all, steeped in the symphonic pop of Love’s Forever Changes and The Beach Boys’ Surf’s Up. Taking such influences as a template, alongside contemporaries such as Aztec Camera, The Pale Fountains and Prefab Sprout, Candy Opera were in the throes of crafting a 1980s song-book in their own image, and the band’s 1983 Honeysuckle Rose demo has become something of a holy grail.

By 1985, the band had played alongside the likes of The Pogues, The Go-Betweens and The Redskins, as well as appearing on Granada TV. Reviews in NME, Sounds and Jamming magazine followed. After a decade ploughing their own stubborn furrow in various guises, despite interest from EMI and Go! Discs, Candy Opera called it a day in 1993 with only a fistful of demos to their name. As the mainstream took a glossier turn, Candy Opera somehow got left behind, and for the best part of thirty years have remained a rumour, a whisper and a quietly lost legend that the occasional online leak could only hint at. Until now.

Tracklist:

What A Way To Travel
The Good Book And The Green
Religious
Fever Pitch
With Yesterday In All The Right Places
Time
Left, Right And Centre
Serious
Slow Down The Slow Dive
The Gravy Train Run (CD only)
Nine Times Out Of Ten
Diane
Happy To Be The Plot But Not The Crime
Shoot
Second Time Around
Love Constitution [Remix] Whip Crack Away
Crucified (CD only)

Firestation FST154