THE TRUTH - PLAYGROUND - Dennis Greives

THE TRUTH - PLAYGROUND - On IRS Records

This is an another clip of a previous post on THE TRUTH, (Dennis Greives from Nine Below Zero). In the previous post it came with a somewhat unwanted extra of X singing BURNING HOUSE OF LOVE which I didn't particulary like.

I like the IRS tag in the beginning of the song. Here is what is interesting about this clip. Sure on one hand it is a total WHO rip off because its thrashy power chords with crashing drum rolls. But it works. THE TRUTH released this in 1985 and it is literally out of print.

I think its the most brilliant thing they ever did. The other albums they put out weren't as gripping as this. I also liked Grievsies later releases with Nine Below Zero but he really takes the R and B thing to a sleeping lull. Sometimes its amazing and sometimes its very subtle.

I liked the Townsend jump in the beginning. Its almost as if the UK kids had to come over here and show us how to do rock music. This really stuck in my head for years. The album - should you find it - is extremely expensive now and rare. I remember it being absolutely amazing in just about every way.

You really needed an album label like IRS back in the day. There was a lot of drivel going around with the devil and 666 stuff in the high schools. I was bored with it. I wanted something exciting. The edits are all equal length here for the most part. Its got a tempo to it.

Funny how you start to notice those sort of things when you actually do editing. Back in the 80's a lot of this stuff was done by hand before digital desktop editing....

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The only computers we had in 85' were those crappy Macs that were the size of a bowling ball.

The opening is from Back Porch Video. The Smartest kids in my neighborhood. I grew up in the same town as they did and used to watch this show growing up in Ann Arbor. They were the only kids that understood what I wanted to see and what mattered most. It wasn't rap music which at the time was not widely accepted as being a serious musical form. The things that captured my attention was bands like these.

Posted by Cantu on Oct. 20, 2007 at 9:02 AM

THE TRUTH - PLAYGROUND ON IRS RECORDS

THE TRUTH - PLAYGROUND
ON IRS RECORDS......

Let the graphics roll... the video is in here, I promise.
Its from 1985.

Whenever I heard the words .. NOW ON IRS RECORDS.. that was a cue for me to grab whatever money I could find and head down to the record store and blow it.. PRONTO! And did I buy this R & B classic ? YES MA'AM.

I remember this video and I didn't think I would ever see it again. But this is a clip from Back Porch Video from my Ann Arbor days..... so thank God it existed. This band was a formulation of some left over guys from Ten Below Zero.

Does this type of sound work? I can't speak for everyone but I personally loved this album.... which was named PLAYGROUND after the single. This thing is good for a number of reasons... its got a WHO type sound, it pounds, it rocks and its got this great rolling drum solo in the middle. Its strong enough to stand on its own. The rest of this album is worth it too, every song on here is really good, if you can find it.

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THE TRUTH - PLAYGROUND