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So Good It Hurts (CD)

By: The Mekons (Artist)

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DISC 1 for So Good It Hurts (CD) Album By The Mekons (Artist)
1   I'm Not Here - (1967)
2   Ghosts Of American Astronauts
3   Road To Florida
4   Johnny Miner
5   Dora
6   Poxy Lips
7   Fletcher Christian, (Sometimes I Feel Like) - (Sometimes I Feel Like)
8   Fantastic Voyage
9   Robin Hood
10   Heart Of Stone
11   Maverick
12   Vengeance
13   Revenge
 

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Title Note

The Mekons: Jon "Johnny Minor" Langford (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Brendan "Staff Nurse" Croker, Ken Des Essientes (vocals, guitar, bass); Tom "Brian" Greenhalgh (vocals, guitar); Eric "Rico Christian" Bellis (vocals, accordion); Sally "Hood" Timms (vocals); Dick "Sir Dickie" Taylor (guitar, piano); Susie "Dora Honeyperson" Honeyman (fiddle); John "Tahitian" Gill (melodeon, bass); Robert "Sigmund" Worby (organ); Steve "Buzz" Goulding (drums).

Recorded at Berry St. Studios, London, England in December 1987.

The Mekons: Johnny Minor (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Staff Nurse Crocker, Ken Des Essientes (vocals, guitar, bass guitar); Brian Greenhalgh (vocals, guitar); Rico Christian (vocals, accordion); Sally Hood (vocals); Sir Dickie (guitar, piano); Dora Honeyperson (fiddle); Robert Sigmund Worby (organ); Tahitian Gill (melodeon, bass guitar); Buzz Goulding (drums).

Recording information: Berry Street Studios, London, England (12/1987).

Only slightly less fabulous than its immediate predecessor, 1987's HONKY TONKIN', with SO GOOD IT HURTS the Mekons began to move away from the folk and country experiments which had dominated their music in the mid-'80s. While there's plenty of Susie Honeyman's old-fashioned fiddling and Sally Timms' cowgirl squeals on this record, the songs themselves combine elements of straight-up rock & roll, punk, reggae, and psychedelia, even going so far as to include a straightforward version of the Rolling Stones' "Heart of Stone," sung beautifully by Timms.

Rather like contemporaneous albums by The Fall, with whom the Mekons otherwise have little in common, SO GOOD IT HURTS is neatly balanced between rock and roll and the band's own quirkier muse. Their next album, the only slightly ironically-titled THE MEKONS ROCK'N'ROLL continues down the rockist path, but SO GOOD IT HURTS is a pivotal album in the band's long and productive career.

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