Patrik Fitzgerald: Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart - VINYL LP

Patrik Fitzgerald: Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart - VINYL LPTitle: Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart Artist: Patrik Fitzgerald Label: Munster Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 8435008834913 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2014 11 28 Number of Discs: 2 RSD Black Friday release. Patrik Fitzgerald was one of the oddities that punk rock threw up in 1977. a lone singer with an acoustic guitar, regaling punk audiences with lyrical songs and interspersing them with chats, stories and poems. Is this what people died in the

Title: Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart
Artist: Patrik Fitzgerald
Label: Munster Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 8435008834913
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2014-11-28
Number of Discs: 2

RSD Black Friday release. Patrik Fitzgerald was one of the oddities that punk rock threw up in 1977. a lone singer with an acoustic guitar, regaling punk audiences with lyrical songs and interspersing them with chats, stories and poems. Is this what people died in the Punk Wars for? the answer is an emphatic yes. There's no better example of the punk DIY attitude than the lone, slight figure of Patrik Fitzgerald making it happen and expressing himself on stage, singing songs of alienation, observation and imagined situations and often braving hostile receptions to communicate with an audience. While bands had the safety net of each other and the bombast of volume and wattage, he stood alone. Patrik had realism, pathos and incisive, sometimes uncomfortable, lyrics. Those early songs like "Safety Pin in My Heart" and "All Sewn Up" have amazingly stood the test of time and sound as relevant today as then. Patrik Fitzgerald was the "Punk Poet." He is the great forgotten songwriter from the Class of '77. Patrik Fitzgerald never became a household name or punk icon like Rotten, Strummer or Weller, but to his loyal followers he is just as important and as inspirational. Same goes for Mark Perry, Vic Godard and Robert Lloyd. Like them, he is one of punk's idiosyncratic, singular voices: artistically successful, but too uncompromising for mainstream and commercial rewards. Fitzgerald's sincere attitude and eccentric appearance - commonly, a badge-cluttered blazer, red drainpipe trousers and sandals - set him squarely apart from his new wave brethren. He was always called a poet rather than a singer, as it was all about the words. Words full of tragedy, comedy, cynicism, realism, bitterness, pathos and just occasionally, hope. Tagged the "new Dylan" in '77, he was maybe more the new Leonard Cohen with a touch of social realism, although Bowie was his hero. "The recordings remain true to me, even when I don't. This is what they are; the voice of a small, insecure, somewhat lost person, living in a small, insecure, somewhat lost country."

Tracks:
1.1 Banging and Shouting
1.2 Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart
1.3 Work. Rest. Play. Reggae
1.4 Set We Free
1.5 Optimism/Reject
1.6 Buy Me Sell Me
1.7 The Little Dippers
1.8 Trendy
1.9 Backstreet Boys
1.10 Babysitter
1.11 Irrelevant Battles
1.12 Cruellest Crime
1.13 The Paranoid Ward
1.14 The Bingo Crowd (Instrumental)
1.15 Life at the Top
1.16 Ragged Generation (For Real)
2.1 Live Out My Stars
2.2 George
2.3 All Sewn Up
2.4 Improve Myself
2.5 Little Fishes
2.6 All the Years of Trying
2.7 Conventions of Life
2.8 As Ugly As You
2.9 When I Get Famous
2.10 All My Friends Are Dead Now
2.11 Adopted Girl
2.12 The Bingo Crowd
2.13 My Secret Life
2.14 Animal Mentality
2.15 Pop Star Pop Star