Urge Overkill-Strange I... (1986)


 

Artist: Urge Overkill

Title: Strange, I

Label: Ruthless Records

Format: 12" EP

Cat #: RRU013

Year of Release: 1986

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986

Sold Price: $19.99

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/13/20

Discogs Last Sold: 9/15/20 NM/VG+ $20.00

Low: $10.93

Median: $20.00

High: $36.36

Current low price: $19.99 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 113/78

Where Sold: Washington, DC

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: In Your Ear Alston, MA late 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go?: No

Before Jaguar, Urge Overkill originally started as part of the Big Black family.  Original drummer Pat Byrne played actual drums on Big Black's Bulldozer EP before Roland the drum machine took over.  Although Strange, I was promoed in it's day (I definitely played it from the WICN library when it was new), the memory of this early release was buried by the time of Saturation, if not before in the Touch 'n Go years.

One of the jarring things I noticed when listening to this was how YOUNG King & Kato sound.  It's like a baby Urge Overkill with Big Black trappings.  At the time, this was considered a good thing, but it didn't seem like part of a bigger picture at the time.  In it's era, it was another second tier band, with a good sound for the 4am hour of my 12-6:30am Saturday overnight show.  Nothing particularly stood out, nor was it musically offensive in any way.  A headphone spin last week didn't reveal anything different to this assessment except it seemed very young.  Different than the mediocrity the band achieved a decade later with Exit The Dragon on the downside of the bands initial run. 

There was a critic term flying around at the time: "very prole."  This meant workman like and nondescript.  That Urge Overkill incorporated hookers n' blow on a yacht kitsch made for a very fine run at Touch n' Go, and even made for an excellent graduation to the majors with Saturation.  Oddly enough this collapsed by the mid-90's, even though their timely "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" cover laid to waste their cover of "Wichita Lineman" certainly in popularity, maybe even in quality.  Blame Pulp Fiction.

Must've been the new drummer.

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