From A Bang To A Whimper

New Fads - Love It All

By 1995, New Fast Automatic Daffodils were gone and Love It All is where it all ended. Sadly, they were not to depart on a high and there seemed to be no real reason as to why they failed to build on the massive sound of Body Exit Mind. There are a few good ideas on Love It All, but by now the New Fads had ceased to evolve and everything was becoming very formulaic. If you love the Fads, then it is likely you will find bits and pieces to like here but imho many tracks lack imagination and drift off into mediocrity and safety, and as a whole this album just disappoints - especially when compared to the first two albums. My cds of Pigeonhole and Body Exit Mind have been played to death over the decades, Love It All was filed away shortly after first listen and has sat on the shelf for nearly twenty years.

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Play It Again Sam Records (BIAS 285CD) in 1994 to high quality lossless flac audio.

1. These Foolish Things
2. Life Is An Accident
3. Left Right
4. Every Once In A While
5. Why Waste Your Love?
6. Monday It Is
7. Saxophone
8. What I Feel
9. PSV
10. Kill My Instincts
11. Souvenir

Avoid The Humdrum

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - All Over My Face

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Play It Again Sam Records (BIAS 199) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio.

A1. All Over My Face
A2. All Over My Face (Split Decision Mix)
B1. All Over My Face (Off The Road)
B2. Why The Hard Men Fail

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - It's Not What You Know

Ripped from a crackly 12" vinyl EP released on Play It Again Sam Records (BIAS 219) in 1992 to high quality lossless flac audio.

A1. It's Not What You Know
A2. Head On
B1. Beatlemania
B2. Beautiful

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Stockholm

Ripped from a 12" vinyl promo single released on Play It Again Sam Records (BIAS 229) in 1992 to high quality lossless flac audio.
A. Stockholm
B1. Stockholm (Radio Mix)
B2. Cannes

At the end of 1991, the New FADS cranked up the levels adding bolder, heavier edges to their Mancunian fuzz-funk. The opening bars of All Over My Face borrow heavily from Slash's Sweet Child O'Mine, and the subsequent Body Exit Mind LP was louder, much louder than anything else that the New FADs' baggie peers where ever capable of. These three singles adequately evidence the band's transition from jerky indie-pop-funk to a heavier and fuller sound, and although my copy of It's Not What You Know has deteriorated with age and wear, I've persevered and cleaned it to a reasonable standard.

As always, Andy Spearpoint has much to say - everybody should listen closely and take time to comprehend his unique social ironies and commentaries, he is an unsung lyrical genius. Stockholm is just quite simply a wonderful single, which never ever got the deserved praise in 1992.

Music Is Shit

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Music Is Shit E.P.

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Playtime Records (AMUSE 6T) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit FLAC audio.

A. Beam Me Up
B1. A Man Without Qualities
B2. Music Is Shit (Parts 1-3)

Watch Out For The Lions

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Lions

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Playtime Records (AMUSE 4T) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit FLAC audio.

A. Lions
B1. Fate Don't Fail Me Now
B2. Your Dreams My Nightmares

Men Of High Quality

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Peel Sessions

Jump forward ten years from Don't Heal. New FADS are like the bastard sons of Biting Tongues. They too produced jerky punk-funk of the highest quality, with Andy Spearpoint's crazed lyrics twisted around distorted guitars, percussion beats and funky bass. A perfect tonic for the baggy beats which Manchester had become so well known during the madchester days.

Ripped from a compact disc released on Strange Fruit (SFPMACD 203) in 1991 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
1. Purple Haze
2. Man Without Qualities II
3. Jaggerbog
4. Big II (Instrumental)
5. Get Better
6. Part 4
7. Man Without Qualities I