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Battle Hymns For Children Singing

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Haysi Fantayzee, “Battle Hymns For Children Singing” (RCA, 1982)
Haysi Fantayzee were like a missing link between the politico-musical vanguardism of early Rough Trade postpunk and the flamboyant bric-a-bric pop gloss of Duran Duran, Culture Club, et al. They combined pioneering hip-hop/electro-pop fusion, Afro-beat influences both pop and trad, the Bowie/Roxy Music side of glam and a kitchen-sink accumulation of other sounds (including square dancing!) into one of the most aggressively odd records ever to break Top 40 anywhere.
Picks: 4, 5 and especially 9. 1 was the hit; I named my book after it.

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Battle Hymns for Children Singing

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Haysi Fantayzee, “Battle Hymns for Children Singing” (RCA, 1983)
Referred to by a prominent critic as “one of the most annoying records ever made” and “like having painful dental surgery performed by screaming nine-year-olds,” this has long been a favorite of mine. On the furthest wild, inventive end of early-‘80s Brit new-wave pop, this might better be likened to Culture Club if they were possessed by the devil. Quasi-Congolese electrobeats, playground-chanting male/female vocals, and a general everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink air of abandon make this an authentic realization of early Rough Trade postpunk experimentalism as electro-dance bubblegm.
Try 1/1, ¼, 1/5, 2/4
8/16/15

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