The Sick Rose No Need for Speed

(Produced by Dom Mariani this is their last album!
Power Pop at its best where Flamin’ Groovies meet the Plimsouls,
but with a personal touch as usual!!
Cd digipack with a rich booklet and
a funny videoclip as bonus track!)Our long waiting finally paid off: here’s their new amazing album!
Cd digipack with 12 pages booklet in attachment (ltd. ed. 500 copies) and Lp with poster/magazine in attachment (ltd. ed. 300 copies)
Last track of the Cd is the 1st videoclip the band made!
Then these are the liner notes made from Luca Frazzi (Rumore Magazine)…

SIXTEEN YEARS OLD IN THE EIGHTIES

The Sick Rose is well-known for bringing out the Faces LP, one of the most important garage records of the eighties.
In ’87 we were listening to Get Along Girl, Night Comes Falling Down, Everybody Wants To Know and dreaming of being in Texas in ’66. But although the sixties revival of the mid-eighties was a beautiful one, it was short-lived. It lasted for only four or five years. And what happened then? We were nailed to the couch in front of the TV, instead of practising music or having fun at concerts. It was a cruel time.

Yet those with an inner passion for the idea of rock rather than its form continued to produce music despite the fashions of the time and the fact that the audience facing them was only half their age. This is also true for The Sick Rose, who with 28 years of experience behind them has produced the album No Need For Speed. Pure US rock from the end of the seventies, music made by mature musicians for teenagers. No paradox, as deep down that is the age The Sick Rose comes down. You can be sure of that!

They discovered Texan punk when the first mid-sixties rereleases were circulating. As kids, they first invested their pocket money in those American 33s and 45s that could be bought for a few lira, with brightly coloured covers and electrifying photos.
Yes, I am talking about the power pop of more than 30 years ago, stuff that is now super-cool but which was for a long time avoided like the plague: Knack, Romantics, Plimsouls. But also more obscure things which you bought because you liked the photo on the sleeve and knew that it was rock, not disco. Your classmates were listening to Dee Dee Jackson and the Bee Gees, while you preferred My Sharona.

Listening to No Need For Speed took me back to those days. Apart from the inevitable breathtaking nostalgia, the excitement which I felt when I brought these records home still remains. The stylus went down and then simple guitar riffs started up – better still, cheerful ones. At that moment I was happy!
No Need for Speed is one of these records, rich in adolescent drive, the unique ingredient that is really indispensible, and produced by Dom Mariani, with the competence and passion which this sort of music has in it. Eleven songs: two covers (Drop By And Stay by Billy Squier’s Piper, 1978, and Magic Teacher by the Dixies) and nine original musical pearls, including The Life, Before You Go, All Wrong: guitar followed by guitar, crystalline choruses, the ABC of vintage power pop. Played in 2011, certainly, but this is only a minor detail. Pieces like this are the result of a teenage enthusiasm created by Doug Fieger’s music. And if any new band believes it is enough just to put on the right tie to make power pop, they should listen to little pieces of magic like Putting Me Down or the powerful Pathetic Girl. They should put their noses to the grindstone and study.

As the title says, The Sick Rose is not in a hurry. They have spent years making an album like this one. But this is a good thing in as much as they have no desire to keep standing still – moving forward yet continuing to be sixteen. Nothing else counts.

TRACK LISTENING:

1-Putting Me Down
2- Magic Teacher
3- Action Reaction
4- Pathetic Girl
5- The Life
6- Before You Go
7- Drop By And Stay
8- How About You
9- Take It All Back
10- All Wrong
11- After All I was
12- (Video)Before You Go

DISCOGRAphy:

-Get Along Girl! 3 songs 7" EP, Electric Eye Records, Italy 1986
-Faces 12 song LP, Electric Eye Records, Italy 1986
-Double Shot 2 x 45s, Electric Eye Records, Italy 1987
-The Hot Roses 15 song cassette, Indie Records, Italy 1987
-Shaking Street 10 song LP, Electric Eye Records, Italy 1988
-Covers 4 song 7" EP, Indie Records, Italy 1989
-Floating 26 song, LP – CD, Synergy Records, Italy 1990
-Alive And Well, 12" EP, Zero Hour Records, Australia 1991
-Renaissance 10 song LP – CD, Synergy Records, Italy 1992
-Other Faces 16 song CD, Dionysus Records, USA 1994
-Italian Fuzz Explosion, 4 song EP, Swamp Room Records, Germany 2001
-Blastin’ Out, Teen Sound Records, Italy 2004
-Faces (Reissue), Teen Sound Records, Italy 2008
-Shaking Street + Double Shot Ep (Reissue), Area Pirata Rec, Italy 2011