Sunday, February 15, 2009

Ca-Ca-Can't You See? It's Vicious Pink!


  I  recently picked up this nifty little contraption that can rip vinyl albums into MP3 files, a must if you're gonna be listening to music in you car, walking around, etc... and immediately set about deciding where to start converting all those glorious albums in my collection that never made it to CD for one reason or another.

   Rummaging around through my old 12" dance singles, I came upon my collection of Vicious Pink records. Vicious Pink! Why, I hadn't thought of them in YEARS, and yet, once upon a time they were sandwiched right up there with Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy and Book of Love for most played records of the day!

  After listening to the MP3 tracks, I was reminded of how awesome Vicious Pink were... the first song I ever got from them was "Fetish" (complete with a cover of the old Classics IV song "Spooky" on the flipside), but the song that really did it for me was the pounding dance beat of "Take Me Now" and the cool and catchy chorus of "CCCan't You See", and these songs sound as great as they did back then!
I believe the album versions of these songs may have been released on disc at some point, but to my knowledge, I never saw anything released on CD regarding these dance versions (the only TRUE versions, BTW!, at least in MY opinion!)