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Was (Not Was): Are You Okay?

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Label: Phonogram Records
Released: 1990
Time:
 49:47
Category: Soul
Producer(s): Don Was, David Was
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: worldwidewas.com
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Purchase date: 2000.12.30
Price in €: 2,99



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[1] Are You Okay?
[2] Papa Was A Rolling Stone
[3] I Feel Better Than James Brown
[4] How The Heart Behaves
[5] Maria Novarro
[6] I Blew Up The United States
[7] In K Mart Wardrobe
[8] Elvis' Rolls Royce
[9] Dressed To Be Killed
[10] Juat Another Couple Broken Hearts
[11] You! You! You!
[12] Look What's Back

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Don "Was" Fagenson - bass, keyboards, producer
David "Was" Weiss - flute, keyboards, vocals, producer
Randy Jacobs - guitar
David McMurray - saxophone
Rayse Biggs - trumpet
Jamie Muhoberac - keyboards
Ron Pangborn - drums
Debra Dobkin - percussion, vocals
Sweet Pea Atkinson- background vocals
Sir Harry Bowens- background vocals
Donald Ray Mitchell - background vocals

Additional personnel:
The Roches - vocals
Leonard Cohen- vocals
Syd Straw- vocals
Iggy Pop - vocals
Jon Jaz-Was - saxophone
Brad Buxer- keyboards
Luis Resto - keyboards
Jeff Lorber - keyboards, programming
Downtown - background vocals
Julie Brown - background vocals
Andy Gill - background vocals
Ewreck Benson - background vocals
Doug Fieger - background vocals

Jeff Lorber - Engineer
Steve Deutsch - Engineer
Don Was - Engineer
Ed Cherney - Engineer

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The "hit" is a remake of "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," but the album is more memorable for typically oddball tunes like "I Blew Up the United States" and "Elvis' Rolls Royce," which features a droll vocal by Leonard Cohen.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide



Eine amerikanische Scheibe von 1990, die endlich einmal "amerikanische Musik" voll auf die Schippe nimmt. Illustre Gäste, wie Leonard Cohen und Iggy Pop, gehen hier lustvoll zur Hand. Gefühlsduselige Countryklänge wechseln mit tollen Beats. Die Brüder Was, die u.a. schon die Rolling Stones produziert haben, lassen wirklich kein Stilmittel ausser Betracht, um uns hier eine interessante und witzige Scheibe zu präsentieren. Anspieltips: "I feel better than James Brown", "Elvis' Rolls Royce" gerapt von Leonard Cohen. Sarkastische Texte, gemixt mit toller Musik, eingespielt von der Creme amerikanischer Studiomusiker, die sich genüsslich selbst durch den Kakao ziehen. Was will man mehr ?

M.K.



Auch auf ihrem vierten Album "Are you okay?" versöhnen die pfiffigen Klangregisseure wieder Tradition und Moderne.

H. Kepler in Stereo 11/90



Was (Not Was) plays contemporary R&B dance music, with lyrics that range from the satiric to the bizarre. The group is led by Detroit-natives David Weiss (David Was), who plays flute and writes those lyrics, and Don Fagenson (Don Was), who plays bass and writes music, but the group is fronted by singers Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson. Was (Not Was) first gained notice for a dance single called "Wheel Me Out" in 1980. Their first album, Was (Not Was) (1981), did not reach the charts, but its follow-up, Born to Laugh at Tornados (1983), did. Then little was heard from the group for five years. They returned in 1988 with What Up, Dog?, which featured the #16 hit "Spy in the House of Love" and the number seven hit "Walk the Dinosaur." (During this period, Don Was had become a prominent record producer, handling the board for Bonnie Raitt's Grammy-winning Nick of Time, among many other mainstream pop records.) The fourth Was (Not Was) album, Are You Okay?, appeared in 1990. Are You Okay? wasn't as commercially successful as the previous What Up, Dog? After the album's release, Don Was continued to pursue his production career, which began to increase tensions between him and David. In 1993, Was (Not Was) officially parted ways.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide
 

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