Adam & Ants - Kings of Wild Frontier
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Artist: Adam & AntsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-09-01
Music Label: Epic Japan/Zoom
Soundtracks:
- Dog Eat Dog
- Antmusic
- Los Rancheros
- Feed Me to the Lions
- Press Darlings
- Ants Invasion
- Killer in the Home
- Kings of the Wild Frontier
- The Magnificent Five
- Don't Be Square (Be There)
- Jolly Roger
- Physical (You're So)
- The Human Beings
Music reviews of Kings of Wild Frontier
Music Review: Shabby Treatment For a New Wave Classic! What A Pity!
Rating: 2 Stars
Epic records cannot plead ignorance here as they surely know what good quality mini-lp replica sleeve (mlps) design means. The mlps designs they executed for the recent Michael Jackson albums Off the Wall, Bad, etc and Men At Work's Cargo were fantastic and good examples of what great mlps designs are supposed to be. Instead, we get a very shabby mlps treatment for one of the greatest albums from the brilliant New Wave era of the late 70s to the early 80s. The design is pathetic coming in thin cardboard haphazardly assembled looking like something a kid in kindergarten would do on a typical school day. Once the glue gets old this baby will come apart and in fact gaps are already beginning to show on my copy. Included is a colour foldout insert that contains all the lyrics in both English and Japanese. The sound quality is good but not great though and so any alleged remastering done has not improved the original sound quality a great deal. What's so frustrating though is that the mlps design they did for the follow up album Prince Charming is so, so much better! Who makes the decision to do justice to one album while shafting the other? The great irony is that while "Prince Charming" is charming in its own way "Kings of the Wild Frontier" is the far superior one quality-wise being the less commercial/sell-out one with more interesting musical ideas explored as well.
When "Kings ..." first came out it took the music world by surprise and even defied classification. Was it punk? Not quite. Rock'n' roll? Not quite. Old English folk? Native American Indian chants? This album was inspired and fittingly came out of what I feel to be the most creative and exciting time to be a fan of music. Growing up during the New Wave Movement was like dying and going to aural heaven given the vast diversity of music ideas and experimentation that was oozing out of the pores of the gifted musicians at the time: U2, Peter Gabriel, Human League, Soft Cell, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, Boomtown Rats, Level 42, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Blancmange, Ultravox, Visage, Heaven 17 and on and on and on and of course Adam and the Ants.
I was first introduced to the band by my quirky younger brother who seemed to rebel at my tastes at the time as barely in my tweens I started my lifelong hobby of music listening to the Beatles' early works i.e. pre "Rubber Soul" and so you can see why I hated the album at first which sounded like the antithesis of "Hard Day's Night" and "Please, Please Me". Still, listening to the album my brother played over and over, I began to appreciate tracks like "Antmusic" and especially "Kings of the Wild Frontier". The other quirky tracks like "Feed Me to the Lions" and "Jolly Roger" actually made me laugh and the fact that no one was playing and making tracks like this band made me respect their uniqueness and hence made me more predisposed to listen to other "strange" music emanating from the New Wave Movement. Now years later I can hear traces of Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Blondie, The Cars etc here and so I hard pressed I'd say that this is a unique twig off the branch of the punk rock genre being both entertaining and humourously amusing at the same time.
The tracks here have aged well and the relative lack of recognition for what Adam and the Ants contributed to the second British Invasion of the early 80s is simply criminal. If you are an mlps collector you will be very disappointed at Epic's disrespectful treatment of a great album but they couldn't take away from the great track content that still sounds wonderful today.
Give this expensive, pathetic mlps version a miss but do get the remastered jewel case version for better value.
Description of Kings of Wild Frontier
Japanese only 2009 remastered paper sleeve pressing. Sony.Alternative Rock CDs
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