Wow! Dying over here having just listened to the Primitives' reunion EP, "Never Kill a Secret," the group's first recordings in 20 years. I'd always been a fan of the band's infectious 1988 indie smash, "Crash," but it took Boston reader Taffy to get me to dig a little deeper. In more recent years I've bought up the band's full catalog, but this was the first I'd heard about the comeback. Although I need another reunited '80s band like most probably need another CD tower -- both Blondie and Bangles concerts are prominently noted in my FiloFax -- I can't resist any of these four sweet tracks, especially the singalong-ready single "Rattle My Cage" and the delightful cover of Toni Basil's "Breakaway," which was the title song from a Bruce Conner film in which the "Mickey" singer appeared, and the b-side to the famed choreographer's debut single, the Graham Gouldman-penned "28."
The EP is available on iTunes HERE -- and is currently streaming over HERE. A welcome return to an underrated band that kinda got lost in the blond movement shuffle of the early 1990s. Now can the Darling Buds reunion be far behind?
Wow! Dying over here having just listened to the Primitives' reunion EP, "Never Kill a Secret," the group's first recordings in 20 years. I'd always been a fan of the band's infectious 1988 indie smash, "Crash," but it took Boston reader Taffy to get me to dig a little deeper. In more recent years I've bought up the band's full catalog, but this was the first I'd heard about the comeback. Although I need another reunited '80s band like most probably need another CD tower -- both Blondie and Bangles concerts are prominently noted in my FiloFax -- I can't resist any of these four sweet tracks, especially the singalong-ready single "Rattle My Cage" and the delightful cover of Toni Basil's "Breakaway," which was the title song from a Bruce Conner film in which the "Mickey" singer appeared, and the b-side to the famed choreographer's debut single, the Graham Gouldman-penned "28."
The EP is available on iTunes HERE -- and is currently streaming over HERE. A welcome return to an underrated band that kinda got lost in the blond movement shuffle of the early 1990s. Now can the Darling Buds reunion be far behind?
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I was waiting for the Darling Buds reference!
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