| On Fyre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | Normandy Sound | |||
| Genre | Garage rock | |||
| Length | 32:10 | |||
| Label | Ace of Hearts [1] | |||
| Producer | Richard W. Harte [1] | |||
| Lyres chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  
[2] |
| Robert Christgau | B [3] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | 
[4] |
On Fyre is the first full-length studio album by American garage rock band Lyres. [5] [6] [7] It was released in 1984 by the label Ace of Hearts and reissued in 1998 by Matador Records. [8] It features "Help You Ann," arguably the band's signature song and the best-known song of the 1980s garage revival, which a commentator at KQED radio in San Francisco called "one of the greatest singles ever made." [9]
The album contains several quotes from songs from the 1960s: "Don't Give It Up Now" contains an excerpt of the guitar riff from " Lucifer Sam" by Pink Floyd, and "I'm Telling You Girl" contains an excerpt of the guitar riff from " You Really Got Me" by the Kinks.[ citation needed]
The album includes covers of the Kinks' 1965 hit " Tired of Waiting for You" (the title is shortened to simply "Tired of Waiting"), the Kinks song " Love Me Till the Sun Shines," and Pete Best Combo song "The Way I Feel About You."
Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that "while [Jeff] Conolly's Vox Continental organ keeps his 1960s obsessions up-front throughout, the rest of the band is capable of generating a hard-driving groove, and the performances capture what was exciting and soulful about 1960s punk without drowning in a sea of 'retro.'" [2] PopMatters wrote that "the stop-and-start rhythms of 'Soapy' will prove irresistible to just about anyone with a pulse." [10] Trouser Press called the album "simply the [garage-rock] genre’s apotheosis, an articulate explosion of colorful organ playing, surging guitars and precisely inexact singing." [11] The Washington Post wrote that "it's the passion of Connolly's organ-pumping, tambourine-bashing persona that makes The Lyres' variations on three chords sink deeper and ring truer than most rock acts, past or present." [12] It ranked No. 35 on the Village Voice annual Pazz & Jop poll for 1984. [13]
Track listing
- Don't Give It Up Now – 4:13
- Help You Ann – 2:29
- I Confess – 2:50
- I'm Tellin' You Girl – 1:40
- Love Me Till the Sun Shines – 3:56
- Tired of Waiting – 3:05
- Dolly – 4:17
- Soapy – 3:43
- The Way I Feel About You – 2:42
- Not Like The Other One – 3:18
Personnel
- Jeff Conolly – vocals, organ and tambourine
- Danny McCormack – guitar
- Paul Murphy – drums
- Rick Coraccio – bass, background vocals
References
- ^ a b "The Lyres to set Toast on fyre Aug. 20".
- ^ a b "On Fyre – Lyres | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Album: The Lyres: On Fyre". www.robertchristgau.com.
- ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. pp. 701–702.
- ^ "Lyres | Biography & History". AllMusic.
-
^ Call, LEN RIGHI, The Morning (21 November 1985).
"THE MUSICAL TRUTH ABOUT BOSTON'S LYRES". mcall.com.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ Palmer, Robert (July 18, 1984). "THE POP LIFE; PETER WOLF AND LIFE AFTER J. GEILS (Published 1984)". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Margasak, Peter (14 November 2012). "12 O'Clock Track: Lyres, "Help You Ann"". Chicago Reader.
- ^ "Children of Nuggets". 17 August 2006.
- ^ "Lyres: On Fyre / Lyres Lyres". PopMatters. January 21, 2013.
- ^ "Lyres". Trouser Press. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ SASFY, JOE (July 6, 1984). "Garage Rock: Gutsy Revivals" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 1984: Critics Poll".
| On Fyre | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | Normandy Sound | |||
| Genre | Garage rock | |||
| Length | 32:10 | |||
| Label | Ace of Hearts [1] | |||
| Producer | Richard W. Harte [1] | |||
| Lyres chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |
[2] |
| Robert Christgau | B [3] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |
[4] |
On Fyre is the first full-length studio album by American garage rock band Lyres. [5] [6] [7] It was released in 1984 by the label Ace of Hearts and reissued in 1998 by Matador Records. [8] It features "Help You Ann," arguably the band's signature song and the best-known song of the 1980s garage revival, which a commentator at KQED radio in San Francisco called "one of the greatest singles ever made." [9]
The album contains several quotes from songs from the 1960s: "Don't Give It Up Now" contains an excerpt of the guitar riff from " Lucifer Sam" by Pink Floyd, and "I'm Telling You Girl" contains an excerpt of the guitar riff from " You Really Got Me" by the Kinks.[ citation needed]
The album includes covers of the Kinks' 1965 hit " Tired of Waiting for You" (the title is shortened to simply "Tired of Waiting"), the Kinks song " Love Me Till the Sun Shines," and Pete Best Combo song "The Way I Feel About You."
Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that "while [Jeff] Conolly's Vox Continental organ keeps his 1960s obsessions up-front throughout, the rest of the band is capable of generating a hard-driving groove, and the performances capture what was exciting and soulful about 1960s punk without drowning in a sea of 'retro.'" [2] PopMatters wrote that "the stop-and-start rhythms of 'Soapy' will prove irresistible to just about anyone with a pulse." [10] Trouser Press called the album "simply the [garage-rock] genre’s apotheosis, an articulate explosion of colorful organ playing, surging guitars and precisely inexact singing." [11] The Washington Post wrote that "it's the passion of Connolly's organ-pumping, tambourine-bashing persona that makes The Lyres' variations on three chords sink deeper and ring truer than most rock acts, past or present." [12] It ranked No. 35 on the Village Voice annual Pazz & Jop poll for 1984. [13]
Track listing
- Don't Give It Up Now – 4:13
- Help You Ann – 2:29
- I Confess – 2:50
- I'm Tellin' You Girl – 1:40
- Love Me Till the Sun Shines – 3:56
- Tired of Waiting – 3:05
- Dolly – 4:17
- Soapy – 3:43
- The Way I Feel About You – 2:42
- Not Like The Other One – 3:18
Personnel
- Jeff Conolly – vocals, organ and tambourine
- Danny McCormack – guitar
- Paul Murphy – drums
- Rick Coraccio – bass, background vocals
References
- ^ a b "The Lyres to set Toast on fyre Aug. 20".
- ^ a b "On Fyre – Lyres | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Album: The Lyres: On Fyre". www.robertchristgau.com.
- ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. pp. 701–702.
- ^ "Lyres | Biography & History". AllMusic.
-
^ Call, LEN RIGHI, The Morning (21 November 1985).
"THE MUSICAL TRUTH ABOUT BOSTON'S LYRES". mcall.com.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ Palmer, Robert (July 18, 1984). "THE POP LIFE; PETER WOLF AND LIFE AFTER J. GEILS (Published 1984)". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Margasak, Peter (14 November 2012). "12 O'Clock Track: Lyres, "Help You Ann"". Chicago Reader.
- ^ "Children of Nuggets". 17 August 2006.
- ^ "Lyres: On Fyre / Lyres Lyres". PopMatters. January 21, 2013.
- ^ "Lyres". Trouser Press. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ SASFY, JOE (July 6, 1984). "Garage Rock: Gutsy Revivals" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 1984: Critics Poll".