Leisure Noise [IMPORT]

Gay Dad

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea Japan
• ASIN: B00000JZRB
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #911,547 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese edition of debut album by British pop group compared to a collision of Roxy Music and David Bowie. Features the singles 'To Earth With Love' and 'Joy', plus the bonus tracks 'Desire' & 'Twelve'. 12 tracks total. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost classic, January 10, 2003

By	Will Porter (London) - See all my reviews

It's a shame that their name caused people such a problem because Leisure Noise has become a lost classic. To call it Brit pop fails to express the range of styles mixed together but I guess calling it a 'Kraut-rock-glam-funk-blues-gospel-Electro-pop' album would take to long.

Containing the UK hit singles 'Joy!' and 'To earth with love' you expect to get a glam-pop album but using the above styles leisure could be best described as ART-POP in the style of Roxy Music. So we get the white-boy-blues of 'Oh Jim' and the kraut-rock chill out of 'Black Ghost' thrown together.

In fact the whole album is 50 years of popular music cut and pasted into forty five minutes, Bowie, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, The Furniture, Art, Richard Hell, Prince, Iggy Pop, Sly & the Family Stone, Queen all appear in one form or another.

Like Bowie, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Gay dad have understood the experimentation sit hand in hand with classic pop.

So the name annoys a bunch of boring old farts, so what, This isn't a book cover judging competition, This is music for music lovers, mind you as far a covers go Gay Dad so have a nice one.

What a name, what a band!

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly suprising and wonderful CD, June 28, 2000

By	Ryan Fredric Steinbeck (Porter, in) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great great cd. I gave it only 4 stars because I've given Sting 5 stars in the past, and have to keep the barometer intact. But if you want a great pop album, with incredibly catchy tunes,..almost Queen-esque in some areas,..especially with tracks like "To Earth With Love", then get this album, it is well worth the purchase. "Pathfinder" has to be one of the best and pop songs ever written. Don't let the name hinder your decision, because if you do, you'll be missing out.