Just cause Grim/Klone Band got such an overwhelming response I’ll post another killer record that you people won’t get. The Citizens from France is up there with Gasoline but on the pop/melody level. Sweet synths and believe it or not perfect english pronunciation. Good job snail eaters! Talking about snails… You people are the slime.
UPDATE: Comment on Facebook:”â€Not from France! They were from the UK,- Ex 3rd Men!!!!!— ha ha BIG mistake from my side.
Country: France
Year: 1980
Label: Dreyfus
Format: 7″
Songs:
Satisfy The Citizens.mp3
TV Woman.mp3
From Facebook(where people tend to comment but not here):”Not from France! They were from the UK,- Ex 3rd Men!!!!!”
Love the french accent.
YEAH I KNOW THEY WERE FROM THE UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha.
This was a lot better than i had expected it to be.Not a “gotta track this one down NOW!” but certainly not the worst ive heard.
This reminded me a little of some of the more lame material by Here and Now. As above, it could have been worse! Perhaps that is the rare French sleeve ; )
No Not French Just released in a lot of territories with different covers. The french was the best – really odd.
Citizens came before 3rd Men
If anyone can track down the album ‘Persona Vacation’ that would be really cool. It may have only been released in germany ( no we weren’t german!)
And Jame..Lame? who are ‘here and now’ anyway.
Cheers
Del
If you want to hear really good music from the children of the citzens check out the Inner Terrestrials.
Could this be the same Citizens who played at a school fete at St Peter’s school South Croydon in 1976? I was there as a 10-year old. I still have a badge I was given which says “The Citizens Satisfy”. The music certainly rings bells. Apologies if the band would not describe themselves that way, but this was my first introduction to electro-pop and I loved it, three years before Tubeway Army. I’ve never forgotten it.
Weird – just find the German pressing in a record stack at a small record fair in Hamburg/Germany and I bought it for little money, because the guys on the cover looking interesting. ‘Satisfy the Citizens’ is o.k. for my taste, but the winner is the flip with ‘TV Woman’ – fast melodic and catchy ‘New Wave’ or call it Powerpop – excellent track!