Candy Opera – Rarities (Firestation) CD / LP

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11 more rarities. For fans of Shack, Pale Fountains, Love, Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, and all things sophisticated pop. 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.

FORMAT: LP limited to 300 copies

Tracklist:

Las Americanos
I Can See For Miles
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
It’s Only Time We’re Killin’
Find My Way Home
Henry Kissinger
Rise (If That’s What People Want)
Some Kind Of Heaven
Nine Times Out Of Ten
Fever Pitch
What A Way To Travel

Firestation FST162

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