Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade
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Album Review
Depending on what mood the listener is in, the lightweight pop of Strawberry Switchblade's self-titled debut album can be sickeningly coy or irresistibly charming. Featuring Rose McDowall (guitar, vocals, harmony vocals) and Jill Bryson (guitar, vocals, harmony vocals), Strawberry Switchblade sound like two little girls enraptured and enraged by their first crushes; those with no tolerance for this innocuous stuff will immediately bolt for the exits. But Strawberry Switchblade shouldn't be flogged for being too cute; accepted for what it is, the album is a toothsome collection of new wave bubblegum. McDowall and Bryson have pretty voices; they blend together wondrously. The lyrics reflect an adolescent perspective on love and heartbreak. On "Go Away," the girls sing about a boy who used one of them for sex and then split; there is a heavy sadness in their vocals that shatters the LP's façade of innocence. "Who Knows What Love Is?" is a winsome tale of longing. In the mid-'80s, synthesizers were still in fashion in the new wave scene, and keyboards are bouncing all over Strawberry Switchblade, especially on "Let Her Go." However, there is darkness lurking within Strawberry Switchblade's candy-flavored melodies. Never has a band sounded so sweet while being so bummed out.
Customer Reviews
Since Yesterday!
At last! I've been searching iTunes periodically for 'Since Yesterday' for the last two years and now here it is. Wonderful. Don't you just love that intro (stolen from one of Sibelius's symphonies)? Sigh, warm cozy 1980s teenage feeling all over again.
Out of the Woodwork!
Finally, I have been able to legally download this track. Since Yesterday was the anthem of my youth and shaped all of my future listening, New Order, Depeche Mode etc. A stunning time travel back into synth pop and days of caring of nothing. Thanks iTunes! (o:
Don`t listen to the critics
Everyone always said this album was overproduced and therefore not very good. As the girls also felt that way, and producers were brought in from all over the place, this has at least some evidence to back it up. I do think they should have let David Motion do the lot, but it`s scandalous to suggest that the towering brilliance of "Since Yesterday" is the only good track. It REALLY isn`t! "Deep Water" is fabulous, a dark, beautiful journey that will raise the hackles on your neck, and "Another Day" is easily 99 per cent as good as "...Yesterday" for bouncing pop with a knife edge. "10 James Orr Street" is also superb, an achingly wistful lament to Rose`s childhood home, with great crispy acoustic production. Some tracks - "Little River", "Ecstasy" and particularly "Secrets" have been messed about with far too much, and clog the album a little, but to be honest it`s one of the best pop albums of the 1980s. And you`ve GOT to own it anyway for THAT SONG, the greatest record ever made with the word "Yesterday" in the title!
Biography
Formed: Glasgow, Scotland
Genre: Pop
Years Active: '80s
Top Albums and Songs By Strawberry Switchblade
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Since Yesterday | Strawberry Switchblade | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday (Extended Mix) | Strawberry Switchblade | 6:31 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday | Smash Hits 30th Anniversary - The Eighties | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Jolene | Strawberry Switchblade | 3:52 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday | The Platinum Collection | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Trees and Flowers (Extended Mix) | Strawberry Switchblade | 6:42 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday | Smash Hits 1985 | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday | 80s Mixtape | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Let Her Go | Strawberry Switchblade | 2:47 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Since Yesterday | 100 80’s Classics | 2:55 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
- £7.99
- Genres: Pop, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative
- Released: 1985
- ℗ 1997 Warner Music UK Ltd
