Was (not was)
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Digipack deluxe reissue of 1981 WAS (NOT WAS) debut album included 8 Remixes & bonus tracks : Here is Rolling Stones (US) 5 stars 1981 review :
The Rolling Stones Review 1981 : *****

Last year, (1980) from out of a left field so far gone that it was in the bleachers, came a twelve-inch single called "Wheel Me Out," the wildest slab of funky junk since Funkadelic's "One Nation under a Groove." The creators of "Wheel Me Out" (now available on the excellent Island/ZE compilation LP Seize the Beat) were a group named Was (Not Was). This loopy, self-contradictory moniker suits their parodic party music just fine.

Now (1981) comes an album, Was (Not Was), that welds George Clinton's medulla to Frank Zappa's oblongata, and results in an eerie, funny eclecticism. The music here sets dizzy, >> more...
ZEREC.CD05
Vinyl : ZEREC.LP05 (12/9999)
Release 01/2004
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