VINTAGE 1979

THE CONTINENTALS

FIZZ! POP!
 (MODERN ROCK)

PROMO 10" EP VINYL RECORD

TOMMY RAMONE PRODUCER

CBS/EPIC NU DISK 3E 36452

CONDITION

JACKET: NM / SLIGHT SHELF CORNER CREASES
VINYL: MINT / UNPLAYED VINYL

Includes original insert promoting the "new" 

(and long discontinued) Nu-Disks on Epic Records.

BACK OF JACKET RETAINS ORIGINAL LABEL THAT READS:
"PROMOTIONAL RECORD FOR BROADCAST & REVIEW - NOT FOR SALE"

TRACKS

FIZZ POP (MODERN ROCK)
WALKING TALL
HOUSEWIVES DELIGHT
TWO LIPS FROM AMSTERDAM

One of the few entries in the short-lived CBS NuDisk experiment of four-to-five-song 10" EPs -- Cheap Trick, New Musik, and the Nina Hagen Band were some of the other bands that tried it — Fizz Pop (Modern Rock) is the Continentals' one and only major label release. Their brand of gutsy power pop is on the Plimsouls/Last side of the equation, with noisier guitars and rougher vocals than you'd find on a Rubinoos or Raspberries album. Ex-Ramone Tommy Erdelyi's production sounds great. The two songs on side one, the anthemic title track and the similarly passionate "Walking Tall," are terrific. On the flip, the anti-radio rant "Housewives' Delight" and the puerile "Two Lips From Amsterdam" sounds a little like the Knack, complete with Doug Fieger-style vocals.