Press Photo of UK Prog Band Strange Days

[presdoug]

This was sent to me by Strange Day's keyboardist Eddie Spence.

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[moecurlythanu]

Absolutely love this band's album. I found it locally in a shop back in the late 80s and it's been a fave ever since. Thanks for posting.

[interbellum]

Nice. I have a Japanese version of 9 Parts To The Wind. Fine album!
This picture is a lot better than the one of the back of the CD.

[lovecraft]

Whoah, I dread to think what coiffured delights are to be found on the back of the CD then!

Gave a couple of the tunes a listen on Discogs but, like Druid and Kestrel, not for me. Good players in search of better compositions and perhaps evidence of ' why punk had to happen'. Garden Shed it ain't. IMHO of course.

[interbellum]

Whoah, I dread to think what coiffured delights are to be found on the back of the CD then!

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[lovecraft]

Aaaaargh!! My eyes my eyes!!!!

Is it just me or does one of them go to the same barber as Dave Lawson?

[Progbear]

Gave a couple of the tunes a listen on Discogs but, like Druid and Kestrel, not for me. Good players in search of better compositions and perhaps evidence of ' why punk had to happen'. Garden Shed it ain't. IMHO of course.

That’s a bit of a harsher assessment than I would have made. After all the hype I’d heard about it all the years it was a bit of a disappointment when I finally did. “Progressive pop” is a good description of this. Kayak is probably a good comparison, or perhaps the aforementioned Kestrel, only not as good. I agree with the one reviewer that claims the longest track is actually the worst. They work best in smaller, bite-sized chunks. They seem like another band that needed a bit more seasoning to hone their craft. The potential is there, but it’s not fully realized, alas. “18 Tons” is undoubtedly odd subject for a song, particularly a prog song (a snoopy suburbanite blowing the whistle on his neighbor’s illegal porn stash).

Is it just me or does one of them go to the same barber as Dave Lawson?

I would have said Toni Tennille.

[presdoug]

That’s a bit of a harsher assessment than I would have made. After all the hype I’d heard about it all the years it was a bit of a disappointment when I finally did. “Progressive pop” is a good description of this. Kayak is probably a good comparison, or perhaps the aforementioned Kestrel, only not as good. I agree with the one reviewer that claims the longest track is actually the worst. They work best in smaller, bite-sized chunks. They seem like another band that needed a bit more seasoning to hone their craft. The potential is there, but it’s not fully realized, alas. “18 Tons” is undoubtedly odd subject for a song, particularly a prog song (a snoopy suburbanite blowing the whistle on his neighbor’s illegal porn stash).



I would have said Toni Tennille.

Guys, I don't agree with you observations about the band's music at all. Strange Days have an inimitable and unique atmosphere in their sound that makes them very special, and almost in a class by themselves, they are that good. It is almost too hard to put into words, but what they achieve on their album is nothing short of astounding; they kind of achieve for me what other groups of the day in a similar vein only partially realise; Strange Days are the real thing, and it sort of makes me want to go back to the seventies and relive that scene. They are right on the mark, and probably time has obscured their impact precisely because of that.

[presdoug]

Absolutely love this band's album. I found it locally in a shop back in the late 80s and it's been a fave ever since. Thanks for posting.

I found it in a local record shop in the late 80s, too, and what a discovery!