Sixteen Tulips At Vanity Fair

 

Tom Verlaine - Kaleidescopin' [VLANE 612 UK 1990 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

Verlaine's career post-Television has been mostly low key, with a posse of hardcore fans but dwindling in numbers as the years progressed. Following those Elektra/Warners years, and after an aborted career on Virgin Records, Verlaine found himself on IRS in the USA and Fontana in Europe. The albums up to an including Flash Light were well received by music critics although the more polished Flash Light failed to deliver the sales which many of Verlaine's contemporaries achieved at the time.

The best reason to enjoy this twelve inch single is not the Julian Mendelsohn mixed a-side (which sounds a bit too much late eighties Shriekback), it has to be the two fantastic riff-rocking flipside tracks, Sixteen Tulips and Vanity Fair. For penguinflight who donated this single a few years ago, which I have finally gotten around to ripping. 

A1 Kaleidescopin'

B1 Sixteen Tulips

B2 Vanity Fair