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In pop music there is such a thing as being too fucking smart for your own good, and Don and David Was certainly fit that bill. It's no accident that What Up, Dog? the third and best album by Was (Not Was) is being released on the group's third record label: the band's razor-sharp amalgam of soul, rock and dance music doesn't fit into any radio format currently known (at least on this planet). And the lyrics speak in a voice ranging from bemusement to disgust of a world inhabited by mooks, morons and maggots.
The creative and performing axis of Was (Not Was) is an unlikely yet remarkably well-matched quartet composed of lead vocalists Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson and songwriters and instrumentalists Don Was (Donald Fagenson) and David Was (David Weiss). A floating entourage of sidemen make up the rest of the band, which tends to average somewhere around ten members in performance and on video.
Atkinson, who used to work on a Chrysler assembly line, is a smokyvoiced soul belter in the tradition of Wilson Pickett; Bowens formerly worked with the O'Jays, and if his singing style invites a comparison, it is to Phillipe Wynne, the late Spinners vocalist. As a vocal team, >> more...
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Spy in the house of love |
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Boy's gone crazy |
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Anything can happen |
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Somewhere in america there's a street named after my dad |
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Out come the freaks |
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Love can be bad luck |
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Shadow & Jimmy |
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11 miles an hour |
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Robot girl |
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What up, dog? |
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Anytime Lisa |
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Wedding vows in Vegas (Franck Sinatra Jr) |
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Walk the dinosaur |
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I can't turn you loose |
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Dad I'm in jail |
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