The Joy Of Pop, by Mick Ness

The Joy Of Pop

by Mick Ness

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Howard Stelzer As a fan of the original 1981 LP, it's awesome to hear these songs polished up and sounding great. Strangled vocal histronics, melodic bass, minimal/angular guitar and sparse production... it sounds very much of its time, but for me that's a big plus. Favorite track: Burn Me Out Again.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
comes on 10" , black vinyl with amazing artwork , inner sleeve , bonus cd including all album track from the original release 'Leave me your ears' (Torso Records 1981) , remastered from the original tapes.
ncluding notes from Dirk Polak : (short preview from the innersleeve)

It’s the strength of pastiche that lays in the subtitle, THE JOY OF POP, of the 1981 Mick Ness record Leave me your ears on Torso, catalogue number 333, which is now upgraded to the main title of a shortened album on Out Of Print. An hommage in the first place to JOY Division and the POP Group, but also to contemporaries like The Cure, Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio and other influential bands at the beginning of the eighties. Mick pays tribute as a soloist. As an omnivorous music lover who appreciates Elvis and Schnittke as much as Bacharach, James Brown, P.I.L or Abba he went to a studio in Belgium and recorded twelve tracks‘in the spirit of’ his beloved, contemporary musical colleagues,with an original and unique attitude. Armoured with guitars, bass, saxophone, violin and toy instruments, he was accompanied by long-term friend Pieter Bannenberg, who would take care of all of the percussion. Engineer Ward Kuczynski and myself as a producer completed the foursome..." read more in the album sleeve.

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1.	Open Rooms 03:33	buy track
2.	Walk On Heads 03:33	buy track
3.	Burn Me Out Again 03:07	buy track
4.	Ants 03:05	buy track
5.	Remind Of 03:08	buy track
6.	If They Had Missed Me 03:22	buy track
7.	We Are 'In' Moving 03:17	buy track
8.	Appointment 03:03	buy track
9.	Cathy Is Amusement (cd bonus track) 02:52	buy track
10.	You In Me (cd bonus track) 03:01	buy track
11.	Ships Full Of Rain (cd bonus track) 02:31	buy track
12.	Too Tight (cd bonus track) 03:42	buy track

about

...Out came ‘Leave me your ears’, autumn 1981, badly pressed and in an impossible jacket. It disappeared into obscurity after minimal sales and left a sour taste in the mouth of all involved.

Mick restricted himself to home recording, while I recruited Pieter to do some sessionwork for the first mini-album by Minimal Compact. Later
Mick became a rocksinger in Hungary’s Sexepil and member of the Mecano incarnation Erector Set, where he met and worked with Esther
again after many years. Pieter started NL Architects, a succesful international design office still operating these days.

33 Years since the first release, the album still sounds fresh and captured the era like no other.

The state of the original analogue mastertapes,dug out of his attic and delivered by former Torso chief Hansje Joustra, made it possible to digitalize the album, re-master it and cut it to
vinyl.

Re-ordering the eight strongest tracks brought us

'The Joy of Pop',

a small wonder to me personally; a great sign of the times in general.
Made fit for 10 inch here is the living proof of well crafted songs by a solemn soldier.

Included is a CD of this record, expanded with four bonus tracks that actually restores the original ‘Leave me your ears’ album.

(Dirk Polak 2014 , Read the full story in the album innersleeve)

credits

released August 8, 2014

All songs written and played by
Mick Ness except percussion by
Pieter Bannenberg

Produced by Dirk Polak
Recorded at Dig-it studio, Hekelgem
/ Belgium spring 1981.
Engineer Ward Kuczynski.
Re-mastered for vinyl and CD at 2x2
studio Rotterdam by: Reinier Rietveld
2014

Sleeve concept and design:
Dirk Polak with Troy Jay

Painting front side:
Sandra Derks ‘Freddy is Unique’ 1986
Oil/Canvas 200/250cm

Foto back side: Kees Tabak

Mick would like to thank:
Dirk Polak without whom this record
would not have been made. Sandra
Derks, Kees Tabak, Huib Simons,
Hansje Joustra, Gerard van Drunen.
Idan Karucci and Kees Smit at Out Of
Print records, Esther Apituley, Marijn
Wijnands and Troy Jay.

Bonus tracks CD:
1 Cathy is Amusement
2 You in Me
3 Ships full of Rain
4 Too Tight

OOP013LP
OUT OF PRINT RECORDS 2014

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