From The Cradle To The Grave

 

Crispy Ambulance - From The Cradle To The Grave [AAR-001 MCR 1980 24-Bit FLAC]

Digging an old favourite out of the singles box.... I last ripped this single in June 2011, so let's hear how it sounds now!

From Manchester with love, very likely one of the most misunderstood bands from the early eighties. Yes the doom & gloom of a decadent & despairing young quartet is very similar to where Joy Division were a year earlier. The Crispy attitude was that if they can do it, so can we and we will try to be better (they probably didn't achieve that).

From The Cradle To The Grave is dark & broody with poignant lyrics and a booming chorus, Four Minutes From The Frontline is JD's Interzone and the Bauhaus interpretation of Third Uncle rolled into one. Alan Hempsall famously stood in for Ian Curtis at the notorious Derby Hall fiasco in April 1980. Crispy Ambulance have never split up and subsequent material was to develop with a more psychedelic feel, however they were responsible for two of the very best Manchester post-punk singles, this and the immense The Presence.

A1 From The Cradle To The Grave

B1   Four Minutes From The Frontline