1980's 'Terminal Jive' brought back guitar and bass but still had a sequenced, disco feel and was produced by Giorgio Moroder and Harold Faltermeyer.
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1980's 'Terminal Jive' brought back guitar and bass but still had a sequenced, disco feel and was produced by Giorgio Moroder and Harold Faltermeyer. It has a very contemporary feel, making me think of both Devo and 'Eliminator' era ZZ Top. The LP wasn't released in the US and didn't chart in the UK, but it was more successful in Europe, including a hit in France with 'When I'm With You', which lead to the band staying there for a year to promote the LP.
Following the success of 'No1 in Heaven' the LP seems to be marking time in returning to more traditional instrumentation, as if unsure of how to move forward. 'Rock and Roll People in a Disco World' could be interpreted as their thoughts on where they were. For all that it has some banging choruses and drives along nicely. Leading on 'When I'm With You' and putting an instrumental version on the same side of the LP is a bit of an odd choice. Side two flows better than side one.
LP: https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_IfGI2mFDV_-N6JwFTKKp-4d0IXalEtI
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Jive
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