The Seclusions-Isolation For Creation (1983)


Artist: The Seclusions

Title: Isolation For Creation

A1Nothing Can Change The Shape Of Things To Come
Backing Vocals – Joey RamoneMitch Leigh
Keyboards – Jimmy Destri
Tambourine – Holly Beth Vincent
Written-By – Mann / Weil*
3:10
A2Johnny
Guitar – Ed Tomney
Trumpet – Dave Anderson (18)
Written-By – Jones*Dash*
4:54
A3Shape Of Things
Backing Vocals – Tim Butler
Written-By – McCarty*Relf*Samwell-Smith*
3:17
A4We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
Backing Vocals – Mitch Leigh
Keyboards – Jimmy Destri
Written-By – Esposito*Scala*Gilbert*
2:22
A5Seclusion Theme
Bass – Howard Zowie
Drums – Gary Chievo*
Guitar – James McGovern
Written-By – McGovern*Dash*
3:20
A6Green Fuz
Bass, Guitar – Howard Zowie
Drums, Tambourine – Marty Feier
Written-By – Dale*Alvey*
1:56
A7The Unlocked Door
Bass – Howard Zowie
Drums – Marty Feier
Guitar – James McGovern
Written By – Ashton
Written-By – McGovern*Dash*
3:27
B1Do It Right
Backing Vocals – Busta Jones
Drums – Jimmy Rip
Guitar – Jay Burnett
Timbales – Douglas Bowne*
Written-By – Jones*Dash*
5:15
B2In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Backing Vocals – Mitch Leigh
Keyboards – Jack Maeby
Written-By – Doug Ingle
4:47
B310,000 Years
Bass – Howard Zowie
Keyboards – Jack Maeby
Written-By – Rip*Dash*
4:07
B4Venus
Drums – Marty Feier
Written-By – Robby Van Leeuwen*
3:46
B5Fortune Teller
Written-By – Naomi*
3:11
B6Shaped (Dub Mix)
Backing Vocals – Tim Butler
0:40

Label: Fuz Records

Format: LP

Cat: MCC RHS-001

Year of Release: 1983

Country and Year of Edition: US 1983 Pink

Sell Price: $5.11 VG+/G+ 8/26/24 

Discogs Last Sold: 12/29/23 NM/NM $17.01

Low: $2.81

Median: $6.00

Average: $7.04

High: $17.01

Current low price: $7.98

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14

Have/Want: 70/26

Where Sold: Gary, IN

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Purchased: used Nuggets Boston early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

The review Gods seem to not want this write up to be complete.  I managed to delete complete write ups for this album not once but TWICE.  The first time I wrote it up in my other blog and hit "trash" before copying it to the right page.  Then I wrote it up again and managed to backspace an accidentally selected page and the back arrow that usually fixes this type of error did nothing except produce a blank screen.  This was all the more infuriating because there were extra links with only a handful of individual tracks available to link instead of the whole single album.  There were also plenty of covers on the record that warranted a link to the original song.  Well, third times the charm.

The Seclusions were a New York City band with Connections.  The singer, Randy Dash, seemingly fell off the face of the earth after the release of this album.  I don't know if he is alive or not.  The key band members are known entities.  Busta Jones on bass did session work for the Talking Heads and Eno.  Jimmy Rip was a regular guitarist with Tom Verlaine and later Television.  Jay Dee Daughtery drums for the Patti Smith Group.

Scene celebrities kick off the opening track.  The hit from the 1968 film Wild In The Streets by Max Frost and The Troopers entitled "The Shape Of Things To Come."  Joey Ramone and his brother Mickey Leigh contribute backing tracks and Holly Beth Vincent of Holly and the Italians wacks a tambourine to kick off the album.

The standouts are all covers.  You've got the short version of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."  You have the alter ego of Allen Toussaint, Naomi Neville's song introduced in 1962 by Benny Spellman, "Fortune Teller."  You have a take on the Yardbirds "Shapes of Things" with a psychedelic spoken word interlude.  Then there is the inspiration behind the label name "Green Fuz" by Randy Alvey and the Green Fuz.

Revisionary nuggets for the post-New Wave rockers.

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