A1  Night fever (Radio edit)
A2  River's edge
B1  Cut Fever (Megamix)

Danish band The Overlords are mostly known for creating early Goa trance with the goa anthem  Sundown from 1991. The 12" Get down (or Night fever) is from three years earlier, and far from the future sound of the band.

Night fever is The Overlords take on the BeeGees classic Night fever from 1977. This is truly a very, very bad version, that sounds like a drunk group of male students singing karaoke trying to get some attention just before the club closes. You have been warned!

It's the second track on the a-side that is interesting. River's edge is a very strange song being a duet, soft beginning and then some rock attitude in the verse and a very catchy chorus ending in a strange bridge leading back to the verse. Fascinating song structure!

If you can get past the very bad singing from Rune Bendixen a.k.a. Sergei Dong, this is a very cool song. His female counterpart Aud Wilken has a very strong voice, that she later used in the band The Poets, and her parts on the track are brilliant. I love these contrasts, almost a bit like beauty meets the beast, and it also reminds me a little of the duet between Nick Cave and Kylie Minouge on the song Where the wild roses grow.

Rediscovered this while browsing through my old records. This is one I picked up in 1988 just because of the look of the cover and the song titles. And it sounded just as it looked - great!

Pop art is a record full of bubblegum pop melodies with  a punk, rock'n'roll attitude and electronic influences. It sounds as the love child of Blondie and Sigue Sigue Sputnik leaving puberty. In my opinion this is a really great record that seems to be a bit ignored or forgotten.

One of Transvision Vamps obvious strenghts is lead singer Wendy James who attracts attention with her sexually charged and rebellious image. But she also have an interesting and expressive voice that fits really well with the bands material.

I love this whole album, but the cocky cover of the Holly and the Italians song Tell that girl to shut up really catches the attention. Also I want you love and Psychosonic Cindy are great up-tempo songs. Other great songs are the softer Sister moon and the opener Trash City.

Transvision Vamp was a really cool band that relesed two more albums before calling it quits. Velveteen from 1989 is also good, but on the final album Little magnets versus the bubble of babble the band had lost their focus.

Really happy to have seen them live at Hultsfred in 1991.