South Bronx Story 2 [Import]

ESG | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 17, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Soul Jazz
• ASIN: B000S6EYNU
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,711 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bam Bam Jam

2. Erase You (Puppy To Your Side)

3. In The Streets

4. Dance To The Beat Of Moody

5. There Was A Time

6. You're No Good (Alternate Version)

7. I Wanna Dance

8. Moody (A New Bood)

9. Standing In Line

10. Earn It

11. Like This

12. Six Pack (Original Version)

Editorial Reviews

Nearly 25 years after their debut, this NY quartet were a major influence on Post-Punk, Rap, No Wave and House music. Following up from the amazing South Bronx Story, this collection features rare recordings that are just as good as anything the Scroggins sisters released during their heyday. 12 tracks including 'Bam Bam Jam', 'Six Pack' (Original Version), 'I Wanna Dance' and more. Souljazz. 2007.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, yet remarkably childlike at the same time, September 28, 2007

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This review is from: South Bronx Story 2 (Audio CD)

The original ESG compilation A South Bronx Story revealed one of the most distinctive groups around in the early 1980s new wave era.

If much too much of the "punk revolution" was little more than self-conscious, childish thuggishness that is terribly difficult to listen to, the Scroggins sisters achieved a remarkable feat in maintaining and even extending the simplicity so praised without in any way falling into the dreadful trap of self-consciousness. A South Bronx Story, Volume 1 was extremely innocent and quirky, but the second supplementary volume released six years after the original shows ESG in a much more intense, passionate light.

This is evident from the first two tracks, the previously unavailable 1987 EP track "Bam Bam Jam" and an alternative take of the 1991 "Erase You". On both the sound is totally recognisable but the intensity with which the Scroggins sisters play is a delightful surprise. Rene's chant-like vocal on "In The Street" is beautifully touching, and even the guitar solo seems to work well. "There Was A Time" showed another side of ESG unheard on the first South Bronx Story with a long jam that still sounds as utterly distinctive as anything they did even with the haunting, atmospheric vocal. This newfound intensity is also seen on "I Wanna Dance" and especially the fiery "Standing In Line" that seemingly makes good of the worst clichés found from music in the late 1970s and 1980s - simple, bare playing and touching vocals do it all. The sisters' first single "Six Pack" features a really dreamy and beautiful vocal that must be heard.

To sum up, this is both a welcome addition and a pleasant surprise for those thrilled by the reissue of most of ESG's masterful 1980s work on the first South Bronx Story.