THE ORCHIDS - THE ORCHIDS (1980)
After producing The Runaways. Kim Fowley produced the Dyan Diamond
solo album and a few years later he managed and produced
another all-girl group "The Orchids" with a former Runaways Laurie McAllister who had
replaced Vickie Blue and Laurie Bell who can be heard
on the Bomp compilation "Vampires From Outer Space".
The Orchids released only one album which combines the best features of The Runaways (the raunch and sassiness) and Dyan Diamond (the melody and strong vocals) and comes up with what may well be a winning formula. Yes, these girls can rock, pop, sing, play and roll with the right amount of competence, commercialism and subtlety. "Girls" is a strong Cars-ish opener with guitars and vocal arrangement featuring five part harmonies.
WU (222 mb)
Even though the album is available on some streaming services, i'm sharing the LP edition because the digital stream quality is quite awful, some songs having a 11 khz cutoff, only 4 songs are lossless, and all the other ones are lossy mastered.
2 comments:
Thanks for a decent rip of The Orchids. A real period piece. Che Zuro & Jan King let me crash at their place in LA back in the day on one of our trip there. I hope Fowley didn't taunt them too much.
Super .... thanks Angelo.
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