LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS - MAINSREAM - VINILO ORIGINAL EN BARCELONA

LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS - MAINSREAM - VINILO ORIGINAL PRIMERA EDICION POLYGRAM 1987 LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS - MAINSREAM - VINILO ORIGINAL PRIMERA EDICION POLYGRAM 1987 En 1987 llegó el inesperado canto del cisne: el dolido y agudo Mainstream: tal vez el mejor disco sobre el fin de la adolescencia entendiendo por adolescencia eso que dura hasta los 30 años. Postales y despedidas para el disco del adiós: canciones sobre los papelones de aspirar papeles en discotecas, sobre la vejez de los propios padres y la novedad del propio matrimonio, sobre cumplir los 29 y sentir “que todo lo que hay que hacer es arrastrarse” para entrar en caja y en molde, de sentirse como Sean Penn (circa Madonna) sin serlo, de hacer el amor antes del divorcio, de llamar por teléfono al amigo de la infancia y encontrarlo y que nos cuelgue, de sentirse un insatisfecho en los tiempos de la nueva y gran peste, y de descubrir que para volver a empezar primero hay que sentirse acabado. Todo eso que ya estaba anunciado en Rattlesnakes cuando se nos preguntaba una y otra vez si estábamos listos para que se nos rompa el corazón. Y sangrar. Pocas veces alguien fue más felizmente triste.   Mainstream is the third and final studio album released by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. It was produced by Ian Stanley and released by Capitol Records in the US and Polydor in the UK on 26 October 1987. It contained the hits " From the Hip ", " My Bag ", and " Jennifer She Said ". Although the album reached number nine in the UK, it failed to chart in America and was not embraced by all critics: Mainstream is the only Lloyd Cole and the Commotions release not to sell at least 100,000 copies in the US. The album took two years to make as finding a producer proved difficult. The band first went with Chris Thomas, when that did not work out they brought in Stewart Copeland. With Copeland they only recorded one track, " Hey Rusty ", then finally found Ian Stanley. Donegan reflected in 2004 that "with the previous LP, Easy Pieces, we had tried to broaden out and make more of a pop record and it hadn't really worked. It sounded rushed and the songs were not all up to standard. So, a year after Easy Pieces, we went into the studio to try and make something more powerful. But the LP that we actually made took so long that we lost our initial vision by the time we finished it. The songs that Lloyd was writing were more introspective, so the stadium rock idea gradually went out the window." Track listing: All tracks written and composed by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, except where noted. 1."My Bag" – 3:56 2."From the Hip" (Neil Clark, Cole, Blair Cowan, Lawrence Donegan, Stephen Irvine, McKillop) – 3:57 3."29" – 5:28 4."Mainstream" – 3:14 5."Jennifer She Said" – 3:02 6."Mr. Malcontent" – 4:49 7."Sean Penn Blues" – 3:28 8."Big Snake" (lyrics: Cole, music: Ian Stanley) – 5:16 9."Hey Rusty" – 4:30 10."These Days" – 2:27