What Are You Listening To?

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BRUCE FOXTON "touch sensitive" vinyl/cd 1984

solo career stats:
studio albums............2
singles......................4

this album stats: #68 UK
singles:
"freak"..............................#23
"it makes me wonder".........#72
"this is the way".................#56

debut solo effort from the former Jam bassist....
it was always going to be a difficult act trying to follow the success of The Jam(even Weller's Style Council never quite got there),
but with Foxton who was a part time vocalist and writer for those guys it was never going to be easy....
like Weller,Foxton strayed away from the trademark Jam sound...pretty much 1980s pop on here and a couple of ballad type songs,
there is one that is a bit more heavy sounding and that was the lead off single "freak"....
that track was written after Foxton saw "the elephant man" movie.
a couple of tracks in "trying to forget you" and "you make me laugh",well, if you read between the lines they could either be about a brokendown relationship with a woman
or about the anger he held for Weller after he disbanded The Jam right at their commercial peak...Foxton has never spoken about these tracks publicly but his hatred for all things Weller was well documented at the time....
after the failure of this album Foxton joined UK band Stiff Little Fingers for several albums before going back to his furniture making/polishing business until the mid 00's when he formed a Jam covers band called "from the jam", more recently he and Weller buried the hatchet,healed the wounds and Foxton played on Weller's 2010 album "wake up the nation", he then made guest appearances on Weller's UK tour in the same year, since then he has released another solo album,on which, Weller played guitar....
the cd version of this album contains three bonus tracks, a Foxton b-side "sign of the times" and two covers...Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and Temptations "get ready", both of those covers are crap and arent required or warrented for release!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: writings on the wall
best track: this is the way

tracks:

1. freak **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c-54-t9izg live(not as good as the studio version,but its all they had!)
2. it makes me wonder **
3. this is the way **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5twbSfpfIw audio
4. my imagination(s.o.s) **
5. what i'd give **
6. whatever the reason **
7. you make me laugh **
8. are you ready **
9. trying to forget you **
10.writing's on the wall *
11.25 or 6 to 4 *
12.sign of the times *
13.get ready *

3s=0
2s=9
1s=4

rating: 1.7