TREND, THE - The Trend is In! LP
•Ultra rare U.S Powerpop album from 1982 reissued for the first time ever
•A U.S. powerpop killer & D.I.Y-nugget – Original album is rare and highly in demand
•Deluxe reissue housed in gatefold sleeve
•Expanded with bonus tracks
•Printed inner sleeve filled with rare photos
•Extensive liner notes by Kieron Tyler (Mojo)
•Carefully restored and remastered sound
•Colored vinyl
The Trend is high explosive, hyperactive teenage powerpop. The Trend
hailed from Kennett, Missouri and was formed back in 1979. Aged fifteen
to sixteen at the time, and armed with guitars, striped t-shirts, skinny
ties, tambourines and colorful drainpipe trousers. The Trend Is In was a
full on hyperactive teenage powerpop and bubblegum-explosion.
One self-released (and nowadays mega-rare) album in 1982 and a
just-as-hard-to-find 7-inch single from the previous year was all that
The Trend unleashed on record during their short lifespan. Since then,
appearances on compilations like Yellow Pills and Numero’s Buttons have made sure The Trend is in high demand amongst powerpop aficionados all over the world.
Trend’s debut 45 “She’s Hi-Fi” b/w “Lucky Day” is blistering class AAA
powerpop that will most likely make anyone with the slightest interest
in the genre strip off all clothes and do the helicopter. “The Girl At
The Holiday In” shows that The Trend had moved on since the single. So
much so that “The Girl I Used To Know” could have been recorded by one
of the then contemporary Paisley Underground bands from Los Angeles.
“Real Cheap Thrill” is raging pop-mayhem bordering to killed by
death-punk. “Two Plus Two” is suffused with the spirit of late 1960s
Paul McCartney. Above all, The Trend is about direct, driving upbeat
pop. “Go For Broke” could have clicked as a single, while “Southsiders
(Waiting To Go Northside)” caught The Trend’s outlook in a nutshell:
“power pop, bubblegum, punk rock, here we come.”
Housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve that comes with a printed inner
sleeve richly illustrated with rare and previously unpublished photos.
In the extensive liner notes The Trend’s main man and song writer John
McMullan tells the full story to Kieron Tyler (Mojo Magazine).
The Trend is finally in!!!
File under: ”beyond essential to any serious rock’n’roll, powerpop-, garage- and punk-rock fan”.
Sweden’s One Way Ticket Records is a sister label to On The Dole Records
who gave you “Jobcentre Rejects” (and much more) and to Sweet Mental
Revenge Records who gave you Rodger Wilhoit and Richard Gibbs. OWT is
also a sub-division of Stora Skivmässan – Scandinavia’s biggest record
fairs .
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