Like a Van Parked on a Dark Curve

Like a Van Parked on a Dark Curve Artist: The Sharks
Label: Angel Air
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5055011700901
ASIN: B00005B9K6


Release Date: 2001-04-26

Like a Van Parked on a Dark Curve


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Tracks:

  1. Perfect Days
  2. Gone To The Dogs
  3. Cry Like A Baby
  4. Wake Me When Its Time To Dance
  5. White Man
  6. Jimmy Bell
  7. The First Thing
  8. Die For Love
  9. Cant Stop Thinking About Me
  10. Blues Rags And Hollers
  11. The Shadow Knows

Album Description

Full title Like a Black Van Parked on a Dark Curve.... Long lost third album for UK rock act featuring original members, Chris Spedding (guitarist extraordinaire) & Steve 'Snips' Parsons (vocals) with the addition of Pete Thomas on drums (Elvis Costello & The Attractions) & Jackie Badger on bass. 12 page booklet features sleeve notes. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Where's the groove?.......2003-01-10

25 years after their last album, half the original band puts out a record half as good as their first two. For those who know the early Sharks, their strength lay in a loose, funky groove that propelled their English strutting boogie. Chris Spedding's minimal understated guitar parts allowed the remarkable rhythm section of either AndyFraser or Buster Jones and Marty Simon to pound out some of the funkyest rock and roll ever heard. On Like a Black Van . . . , however, despite the presence of the great Pete Thomas, the rhthym section is totally leaden. None of the songs contain even a hint of that fat groove from the earlier material.

Most will remember Snips has having one of the most gloriously ravaged voices in rock and roll. Strangely, 25 years later, rather than his voice eroding further, his voice has cleaned up (clean living?). Still raw, but lacking that primal croak that made you wonder whether it might just break down completely before the record would end.

It's good to hear Snips and Spedding together again, but unfortunately, this reunion is sadly incomplete without the distinctive grooves of "First Water" and "Jab It In Yore Eye".

5 out of 5 stars Sharks formed in 1973, not 1975.......2002-03-04

Nitpicking, perhaps, but the first Sharks album, First Water, was released by Island Records in 1973.

4 out of 5 stars

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  6. Village of Savoonga ~ Village of Savoonga
  7. From the Beginning ~ The Small Faces
  8. Et Cetera ~ Little Yellow Box
  9. Free Peace Sweet ~ Dodgy
  10. Seven Sisters ~ Meja

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