Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe (LP) (1982) - €10,00

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Friend or Foe is the debut solo album by English singer and musician Adam Ant, released in October 1982 by Epic Records in the United States and Columbia Records elsewhere. The album peaked at number 5 in the UK, Adam Ant's highest charting solo album. 

Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni ditched the rest of the Ants not long after the release of the widely derided Prince Charming, which provided them with the perfect opportunity for a new statement of purpose in the first Ant-less album, 1982's Friend or Foe. 

They had already begun moving away from Burundi beats and Indians on Prince Charming, but here they ditch any pretense at the underground, favoring big, glitzy glam pop. There's still residual artiness, of course, since Adam and Marco are post-modernists that love to paste together seemingly incongruous strands of pop culture in an attempt to craft something new. 

The difference is, they've wrapped this instinct in big, big production and cheerful, unabashed pop hooks, best heard on "Place in the Country" and the hits "Friend or Foe," "Desperate But Not Serious," and "Goody Two Shoes," the latter becoming Adam's biggest hit in the U.S. Since these are deliberate pop trifles, several critics laughed off Ant as a silly lightweight, but that's missing the point -- these are intentionally tongue-in-cheek tunes, delivered with an excess of flair and good humor. 

Though Friend or Foe does lose momentum on the second side and the cover of the Doors' "Hello, I Love You" falls a little flat, this is good, giddy fun, one of Ant's best records and one of the best new wave albums. 

Side one

1.  Friend Or Foe - 3:21

2.  Something Girls - 3:50

3.  Place In The Country - 2:48

4.  Desperate But Not Serious - 4:12

5.  Here Comes The Grump - 3:33

6.  Hello I Love You - 2:37

Side two

1.  Goody Two Shoes - 3:28

2.  Crackpot History And The Right To Lie - 2:44

3.  Made Of Money - 3:28

4.  Cajun Twisters - 2:57

5.  Try This For Sighs - 3:03

6.  Man Called Marco - 3:26

Personnel

• Adam Ant – vocals, bass guitar, production
• Marco Pirroni – guitar, production, vocals on "Man Called Marco"
• Bogdan Wiczling – drums, percussion
• Martin Drover – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Jeff Daly – saxophone
• Jude Kelly - vocals on "Desperate But Not Serious"
• Sam Brown, Sonia Jones, Vicki Brown - backing vocals on "Hello, I Love You"

Technical

• Alan Douglas - engineer
• Allan Ballard - front cover photography

Notes

Release:  1982

Format:  LP

Genre:  Pop, Rock & Roll

Label:   CBS Records

Catalog#  25040

Vinyl:  Excellent

Cover:  Excellent

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