{"title":"Class","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"242001","title":"2\/4\/2001","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve ever spent any time in the darkest recesses of the internet, you’ll know that ‘powerpop’ is an emotive term. For every pockmarked tenderfoot flying the flag for some fuzzed-out alterna-rocker’s harmony-drenched new single, there’s a grizzled veteran insisting that there’s not enough jangle, not enough hook, not enough oomph on display (‘I hear the pop, but where’s the power?’). Basically, if you thought ‘what is punk’ was a granular debate, trust me: you ain’t seen nothing yet. Anyway, sidestepping the fact that I clearly am one of their kind, let’s just say a quick ‘fuck those nerds’. This is where Class come in. Class are a four-piece from Tucson, AZ, who are most assuredly all the power, all the pop, all the time. They’ve served time in a bunch of bands you already know and love - most notably everyone’s favourite ‘delinquent slobs’ Rik And The Pigs - and Matt Rendon of their citymates The Resonars is the guy behind the mixing desk, so you know whatever comes out is gonna be good. ‘2-4-1’ compiles the two cassettes they’ve released on Cincinnati's Feel It Records (which also released their debut LP proper, ‘Epoca De Las Vaqueros’) and it’s absolutely rammed with new pop classics. ‘Steady Hands’, ‘Wrong Side Of Town’, ‘Inspect The Receipt’, ‘Left In The Sink’... get learning these titles now, ‘cause you’re gonna get very well acquainted when you spin ‘em until your needle’s worn down to a flattened-out nub. Sound-wise, it’s pop music as envisioned by the punks - straight to the point, no fucking about. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these songs feel like Alex Chilton playing ‘September Gurls’ on a curious cocktail of cheap speed and wayyy too much sugar; others are kinda like the aforementioned Resonars if they ditched their British Invasion records and got obsessed with a heady mixture of The #1s and Richard Lloyd’s ‘Alchemy’. Sometimes it just sounds like a forgotten late 70s punk classic, so I think we’re all in the right place here. It’s scuzzy and scuffed up in all the right places, with blazing guitar solos and crashing drum fills designed to get you where you need to go, with a minimum of fuss. ‘Class’ is an apt name. As you’d expect from a band with three vocalists, there’s more than one style at play here, meaning this record pulls from enough varying strands to keep things interesting without sounding unfocused. There’s no time to get bored, unlike when reading my drivel. What the fuck are you waiting for? This is power pop at its best, punk at its funnest, a whale of a time in less than 30 minutes. Let the nerds wage war on each other - clearly, I’ll be reading it - and claim your own victory by playing this one to death. This band are in a class of their own, and if I’ve not laid it out explicitly enough, you need to start listening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drunken Sailor","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50383126004043,"sku":"2030006","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Class-_2-4-1_c00cec23_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726263838"},{"product_id":"bernstein-elmer-hn","title":"Bernstein, Elmer","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presents the premiere release of Elmer Bernstein’s charmingscore for the bittersweet high-school comedy CLASS (1983), directed by Lewis John Carlino and starring Jacqueline Bisset, RobLowe, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack and Cliff Robertson.The film is about Jonathan (McCarthy) who goes to college and befriends Skip (Lowe), his roommate. The relationship with Skipproves very useful in matters of love, an area where the young student is lacking. His first attempts are a resounding failure, butthen he meets Ellen (Bisset), a woman twenty years his senior. At first everything goes very well, but one day she disappears.When he finds her again, he discovers that she’s Skip’s mom.Elmer Bernstein was no stranger to student comedies in the early 1980s, thanks to his collaborations with John Landis and IvanReitman, although CLASS is, rather, a romantic comedy. His score is a sheer delight, providing a sophisticated component to thefilm. The music is descriptive, romantic and funny, with a powerful main theme that is pure Bernstein.With the elements long gone, assembling this album was a challenge, but working from recently located original mono ¼”tapesand an incomplete set of 24 multi-track stereo elements, the music is finally being released—forty-two years after its recording.The CD contains the main score presentation and additional source music and alternates, all from surviving stereo and monotracks. This collection has been produced, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone. The full color package includes an essay by filmmusic writer Jeff Bond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quartet","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52545900544331,"sku":"R1300-4488","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/p_1b23fd85-3785-45dd-9a47-3d0aa54d805a.jpg?v=1751018646"},{"product_id":"cant-be-still-there-i-was","title":"Can't Be Still \/ There I Was","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLos Angeles brothers Tommy (aka Buster) and Eddie Williams sang in many different groups but only had a handful of releases as a duo or as solo artists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Can’t Be Still’ is their best-known track after being belatedly spun at Wigan Casino in the mid-70s. It became a ‘monster sound’ and was subsequently re-pressed from the original record plates to satisfy demand.  It is now considered a classic northern oldie from the golden era\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe flip ‘There I Was’ is more of an up-tempo harmony pop record than a soul number. Despite its pop sensibility, it has picked up many admirers over the decades and is highly regarded among collectors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Class","offers":[{"title":"7\" - Black","offer_id":56991177310539,"sku":"R6811-6897","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot2026-04-09at23.21.21.png?v=1775773295"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/class.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}