The Rembrandts, new masters – their third album “L.P.” – 1995
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Track:Turn Me On
(Tenth in a series)
After the somewhat diminished success of their second LP, ??Untitled??, it took three years to produce the next one, ??*L.P.*??. They switched labels, from Atco to the lesser-known East-West. After recording 14 songs for the new release, the “Friends” theme they’d thrown together in three days came back to haunt them when the show became a massive hit. For the full story behind that song, see #2 in the series, *"click here":http://mog.com/Q4_der_mahrk/blog_post/157311*. Although the song became very popular, it was not released as a single until later, forcing those who wanted it to buy the song to buy the album, driving it to #23 on the Billboard album charts. And these impulse-buyers bought it, had their fill, and dumped the album in droves. It can be found in every single used CD store I’ve ever been in, and copies on eBay go for one cent plus shipping. As big a fan as I am, this proved to be their most disappointing album. The songs in general were just not as strong as on their first two, and there were even some I actively disliked. Oddly enough, though, the CD single released from the album contained its best song, “This House Is Not A Home”, a great cover of “Money” (which I will feature this Sunday), and TWO more great songs NOT on the LP and better than anything else on there. 
“A House Is Not A Home” can be heard on this amusing video (their last to date) which blends footage of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy black and white TV series with footage of the boys. Unfortunately, the last little bit of the song is cut off. The red-button song attached to this post is “Turn Me On”, one of the excellent supplementary songs on the single, complete with some lyrical cynicism about the record industry – well-deserved. The “Friends” theme success created two unhappy pigeons who were pigeonholed with that song . It destroyed whatever credibility they’d developed and they were forevermore to be linked to the IMHO-crappy sitcom. Geez, if you go to YouTube and type in Rembrandts, you get hundreds and hundreds of amateur performances of that song from the bedroom-stage talentless. It seemed to irk Phil Solem in particular, and the Rembrandts split up. Next: The next nine years would see them releasing solo material, in the case of Danny Wilde, and Phil Solem recording with a new band before they came back together.
After the somewhat diminished success of their second LP, ??Untitled??, it took three years to produce the next one, ??*L.P.*??. They switched labels, from Atco to the lesser-known East-West. After recording 14 songs for the new release, the “Friends” theme they’d thrown together in three days came back to haunt them when the show became a massive hit. For the full story behind that song, see #2 in the series, *"click here":http://mog.com/Q4_der_mahrk/blog_post/157311*. Although the song became very popular, it was not released as a single until later, forcing those who wanted it to buy the song to buy the album, driving it to #23 on the Billboard album charts. And these impulse-buyers bought it, had their fill, and dumped the album in droves. It can be found in every single used CD store I’ve ever been in, and copies on eBay go for one cent plus shipping. As big a fan as I am, this proved to be their most disappointing album. The songs in general were just not as strong as on their first two, and there were even some I actively disliked. Oddly enough, though, the CD single released from the album contained its best song, “This House Is Not A Home”, a great cover of “Money” (which I will feature this Sunday), and TWO more great songs NOT on the LP and better than anything else on there. “A House Is Not A Home” can be heard on this amusing video (their last to date) which blends footage of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy black and white TV series with footage of the boys. Unfortunately, the last little bit of the song is cut off. The red-button song attached to this post is “Turn Me On”, one of the excellent supplementary songs on the single, complete with some lyrical cynicism about the record industry – well-deserved. The “Friends” theme success created two unhappy pigeons who were pigeonholed with that song . It destroyed whatever credibility they’d developed and they were forevermore to be linked to the IMHO-crappy sitcom. Geez, if you go to YouTube and type in Rembrandts, you get hundreds and hundreds of amateur performances of that song from the bedroom-stage talentless. It seemed to irk Phil Solem in particular, and the Rembrandts split up. Next: The next nine years would see them releasing solo material, in the case of Danny Wilde, and Phil Solem recording with a new band before they came back together.
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