The Heat - Instant Love 7″
August 29th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Prejudice as I am I think it’s not that common to have two blacks in a powerpop band? As the thing with Bad Brains, four blacks playing manic punk. The Heat where from New York and besides this released an LP on MCA. Instant Love is as pure and as wimpy as only really good powerpop can be. Fuck Punk Rock and its hate and violence slogans we need some love man! Instant love!
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Label: Hot Stuff
Format: 7″
Songs:
Instant Love.mp3
High School Sweater
August 30th, 2006 at 3:35 am
Great Mod/Poppunk!!
August 30th, 2006 at 6:27 am
They really had a good UK go with this one - sent promos to all manner of no-hoper regional radio stations. Didn’t work. Their image wasn’t conventional enough, and they had too much of a whiff of ‘industry’ about them. Pity, cos it’s a good record - thanks for the post!
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:22 am
Yeah, and of course, that ‘whiff of industry’ might have come courtesy front-man Tally Taliaferrow being a member of music-industry-casualties and unrecorded New York rock legends, the Planets. Oh, and I guess he was black too - you’re right.
September 14th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Hey there, this is Geoff Lee, bass player with The Heat. We’re playing CBGB’s Friday nite September 15, 2006 at 12:30 a.m. You can hear “Instant Love” live if you like.
Cheers
September 18th, 2006 at 8:56 am
The web address below should work, the file takes a while to download. http://homepage.mac.com//jeffreyformosa
October 14th, 2006 at 3:49 pm