Mike Norman Economics: Frazier Chorus

A 1980s English Pop Band From Brighton, UK

I played this to my girlfriend the other day and I thought she would like it, as I love it, but she she was totally unimpressed. Elevator music, she called it. So I tried some more tracks from them, but it still fell on dead ears. Then it was my turn to listen to some of her music, and crikey, that was hard, modern R&B, funk! That's really not my thing. I only like eccentric pop.

When I was a teen all my friends got into each others music, but as we got older we all got fragmented, so no one really got into many of the bands that I was into, including Frazier Chorus, and my favourite if all, Robyn Hitchcock. It got lonely!

Anyway, Frazor Chorus are so unusual that I thought I would post some of their tracks, as I like to put out a music post from time to time. I normally stick to bands that have a much wider appeal, a rule I broke with the Magnetic Fields, but I did that because the video where Stephen Merritt created a song was so good. I haven't got an excuse for this one, except that Frazor Chorus are so unusual that not many people would come across them otherwise, so I thought, let's put it out here because someone might like it.

Frazier Chorus were an English pop group from Brighton, England, (1986 - 1996). A pop group that utilised flute, clarinet, bongos and hushed vocals. The 1980's production has dated, but they still sound good. Tim Freeman wrote and sang the songs, but he narrated them rather than sang them. He also played the guitar and keyboards. Frazor Chorus were classically trained musicians and I think this was part of their appeal to me, as I love the flute and the clarinet, plus the other classical instruments they used, although I'm not into classical music. It's pop music which may have been slightly related to the British New Romantic movement.

They only made three albums, but the third flopped, so the record company dropped them.

While I'm here, we used say when we were young, what could come after rock, and we couldn't think of anything? But now we have this mixture of R&B, Rap, and Rock, like Linkin Park, and I really don't like it. I finally got old.

Later I will do a post on the La's, which are another very unusual band.

Typical