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The Young Fresh Fellows - Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest/Topsy Turvy Audio CD

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The Young Fresh Fellows Band: The Young Fresh Fellows
Title: Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest/Topsy Turvy
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Release Date: 1993-09-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rock'n'roll Pest Control 2: All Messed Up 3: Gus Theme 4: Think Better of Me 5: Power Mowers Theme 6: Empty Set Takes a Vacation 7: View from Above 8: Big House 9: This Little Mystery 10: Humble Guy 11: Down by the Pharmacy 12: Teenage Dogs in Trouble 13: You Call That Lonely? 14: That Letter 15: Young Fresh Fellows Theme 16: Searchin' U.S.A. 17: How Much About Last Night Do You Remember? 18: Where Is Groovy Town? 19: New John Agar 20: Sharing Patrol Theme 21: You've Got Your Head on Backwards 22: Two Lives 23: Mr. Salamander's Review 24: Trek to Studpidity 25: Topsy Turvy Theme 26: Hang Out Right 27: Agar's Revenge 28: Good Things Go

yeah, you could buy it...
Pure pop. This is a good first album to start with, YFF-wise. I think Fabulous Sounds is the stronger of the two. Their later albums are more heavy on the rock side of things, which is more my taste when it comes to this band. (i think this album is 1984-85) But if you enjoy this, you will really like their early 1990s stuff.


I wish somebody would tell me where Groovytown is, 'cause I wanna go there
I was so happy to find them on cd! I went to see them every time they played Portland (at underage venues, at least) and they were a great live band, too. These two albums are part of the soundtrack of my high school years. Far ahead of their time, I think. FSPN with the interspersing of vintage tourism filmstrip, and both with entertaining liner notes (like another reviewer said, too bad they aren't included with the cds. )
Even if these albums didn't hold wonderful nostalgic memories for me, I would still love them. There are clever lyrics, great music, and great musicians here. This is so different from other music from the same time period, and it doesn't sound dated at all.
You must buy this.
Really.


Little Kids Bring Zucchinis and Stay All Day
That was enough for me to buy it then. Is the line on the spine of the original album.
Pure pop for now people! Too bad for you that it doesn't contain the lyric sheet (signed by the band) that was in the original vinyl pressing of Fab Sounds. . .
Scott transforms great titles into great songs, and on Topsy Turvy proves that he and the band can master just about every genre known to popular music. A modern day Lennon/McCartney in one shaggy-haired package. Drummer Tad is, well, the coolest machine-gun drummer/golfer and lounge sophisticate around (trek, trek). Get it.


Soundtrack for my high school years
I wore out the first copy of I had of Topsy Turvy, and then its replacement. I'm a northwest native who discovered these guys at a mid-80's Bumbershoot and have been hooked ever since. My third copy was stolen.

Finally, years later I found the CD used, in Miami, of all places, god bless Blue Note records in N. Miami, and my life was again complete.

By the way, all the spoken word stuff on "Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest" comes from a strange little record published as a tourist attraction by Pacific Northwest Bell, and which I picked up at a local Goodwill recently for $. 30. It sounds even weirder without music following it.

Anyway, this is a collection of songs that will get under your skin and stay there. If there's any way to wear out a CD I have no doubt that I will find it with this CD.


4 and 1/2 Stars ( Because nobody gets a 5 )
When I first purchased this it was on White Vinyl with strange purple smears, the summer of "85" I think, and Duran Duran was king and drum machines and synth washes were the essential elements of radio music. . Yeesh; And the College radio scene consisted of U2 and REM, a little to serious for my taste.

Topsy Turvy was perfect for general beer drinking and college socializing and acoustic sing along stuff too, we all could play along and knew every sarcastic hysterical word Scott sang.

There was real Pop/Rock music being played in the 80's it was just harder to find than we were used to. These guys (The Young Fresh Fellows) were the Beatles to us; instead of "Involvement, Revolution and Dreaming of changing the world" The Fellows were disenfranchised, sarcastic, hysterically funny and completely devoid of egocentrism. If you want a glimpse into a revolution that never happened (because you have to become a part of the "system" to beat the "system"). . . We did not rage against the machine we giggled at it from our window seat.

This CD is a worthy investment in music history.


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