The Shades – Basement Sessions, 1978-1980 Music CD

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The Shades – Basement Sessions, 1978-1980 Music CD

Name: The Shades – Basement Sessions, 1978-1980 Music CD
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I have to be honest here: I don't have confident, verifiable knowledge about Shades (or The Shades) from Central New Jersey specifically enough to add meaningful new context beyond what's already in the label copy without risking fabrication. Given the rules, here's what I can write that adds genuine framing without inventing facts: --- New Jersey's late-70s underground ran deeper than the Asbury Park narrative ever captured. These basement recordings document a working band operating in the gaps between punk's first wave and new wave's commercial breakthrough, at a moment when four-track home recording was becoming its own form of preservation, not just rehearsal. --- If you can share additional verified details about the band, members, or their history, I can sharpen this considerably.

Before the East Coast new-wave circuit had a map, The Shades were already driving it. Formed in Central New Jersey from the high-school group Nobody Special, the six-piece developed it's own songs while holding down four-set bar nights and carrying them to the Hot Club, City Gardens, the 9:30 Club, the Rat and Bookies. They shared stages with the Mumps and, in September 1979, The Police. Between 1978 and 1980, sound engineer John DeMarzo captured The Shades in the Evans brothers' basement on a TEAC quarter-inch four-track machine. Basement Sessions 1978-1980 gathers nineteen of those previously unreleased demos, then adds both sides of the band's 1979 Go-Go single, ""Hello Mr. Johnson"" b/w ""Are You My Angel?,"" originally distributed in Britain through Rough Trade. Four-track tapes, six musicians and hooks enough to escape the basement. Liner notes by David M. Snyder. Remastered by Prof. Stoned.

Tracklist:

Hello
Are You My Angel?
Mr. College to You
Paint By Numbers
Happy Endings
Estella
Don't Mess Around
Arbor Row
Hey Linda
Crime Club
Trying Harder
Close at Hand
Just Because
Where's My Hat?
No Place for Me
Men from the Boys
It's a Secret
Turn It Over
It Pays to Be Cool
Hello Mr. Johnson (Single Version)
Are You My Angel? (Single Version)

UPC: 601570655913
Label: Think Like A Key Rec
Release Date: 10.30.26
Format: CD

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