Bizarro

Bizarro is the second studio album by The Wedding Present. It was released in October 1989 by their record label, RCA. The Wedding Present's second studio album and first "proper" album for RCA came hot on the heels of the Українські Виступи в Івана Піла folk music sidestep and showed that the band had grown both musically and lyrically. The same production team was used as on debut album George Best, but Bizarro sounds a lot tougher, which had p... more

Bizarro is the second studio album by The Wedding Present. It was released in October 1989 by their record label, RCA. The Wedding Present's second studio album and first "proper" album for RCA came hot on the heels of the Українські Виступи в Івана Піла folk music sidestep and showed that the band had grown both musically and lyrically. The same production team was used as on debut album George Best, but Bizarro sounds a lot tougher, which had probably also to do with an increased recording budget. Lyrically, Gedge still chronicles the same tales of lust, love, jealousy and revenge, but is a lot more mature about it, while musically the band sounds much tighter and experimental, often ending songs in Velvet Underground-like extended rhythm guitar workouts. Technically speaking, only one single was taken from the album, "Kennedy", which provided the band with their first Top 40 hit, reaching #33. In early 1990, The Wedding Present re-recorded "Brassneck" with Steve Albini, which... less