I Can’t Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82 Maximum Joy SKU: SSR001 Barcode: 5055869559614 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Silent Street Released Date: 18th October 2017 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “Maximum Joy is an aspiration, a claim to passion. To call a band ‘Maximum Joy’ is to ask a huge question – what is the very best you ever felt or hope to feel and more importantly how far can you take it?” Silent Street is a new collaborative label from Chris Farrell (Idle Hands) and Kiran Sande (Blackest Ever Black). For their first release they’re proud to present I Can’t Stand It Here On Quiet Nights, a compilation of singles by one of our shared musical lodestars; Bristol’s extraordinary Maximum Joy. The band was formed in 1980, by 18 year-old photography student and vocalist Janine Rainforth alongside Tony Wrafter, a trumpeter/saxophonist previously affiliated with Glaxo Babies. Wrafter’s former accomplices, Charlie Llewellin (drums) and Dan Catsis (bass), completed the original line-up, alongside erstwhile Pop Group guitarist John Waddington. With a youthful confidence and energy that leaps out at you even now, they took their diverse influences – punk, modern jazz, disco, dub, funk, soul, early hip-hop, Afrobeat and chansons – and distilled them into some of the greatest, most intoxicating pop music ever made. Together they carved out a story which today stands as a sumptuous feast for anyone interested in the roots and evolution of “the Bristol sound”. Along with prior associations with The Pop Group and Glaxo Babies, there are links, back and forth, with The Slits and Dennis Bovell, Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound, the Berry Street “hole in the ground” studios, and so on, through to the Wild Bunch, Massive Attack, Smith & Mighty, and Tricky’s ‘Aftermath’. Thirty-five years on its impossible not to be blown away by their combination of instrumental virtuosity and DIY pluck, and by their fearless application of disorientating dub FX. In terms of open-minded, progressive and life-affirming music made in the post-punk era, little else comes close. I Can’t Stand It Here On Quiet Nights – the first ever official UK reissue of Max Joy material – is centred around the trio of singles the band released on Y Records between 1981-1982. Their first, ‘Stretch’, was licensed to seminal American label 99 Records and soon after became an anthem on the New York club underground, a cult staple at Danceteria and on late-night radio. This comp gives pride of place to their first B-side, ‘Silent Street / Silent Dub’: a languid, haunting tribute to long summer nights in St Pauls (where the Idle Hands shop presently resides) and specifically the Black & White Cafe, “where dub-reggae reigned supreme, 24/7”. Llewellin’s mesmerising one-drop kit and Catsis’s outrageously heavy bassline anchor the track, allowing Rainforth’s exquisite vocal and Wrafter’s trumpet to soar within the intense, expressionistic dub mix. In both subject matter and execution it is the definitive Bristol tune. ‘White And Green Place (Extraterrestrial Mix)’, ‘In The Air’, and wistful instrumental ‘Simmer Til Done’ also feature; the non-Y bonus is the 12” version of ‘Do It Today’, Maximum Joy’s contribution to the Fontana compilation Touchdown, which originally came out in ’82 as a white label split with The Higsons. I Can’t Stand It Here On Quiet Nights will be released on 2×12” vinyl, with sleevenotes by Janine Rainforth, Tony Wrafter and Kevin Pearce. Time to acquaint, or reacquaint, yourself with the eclectic, exhilarating work of Bristol’s finest, brightest pop idealists. Artist Maximum Joy Genre Rock And Pop Label Silent Street Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings A:Silent Street / Silent Dub B1:White & Green Place (Extraterrestrial Mix) B2:In The Air (12" Mix) C1:Building Bridges / Building Dub C2:Simmer Til Done D1:Stretch (7" Mix) D2:Do It Today Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Inner Tongue Favours Rock And Pop | Mount Silver Records | 1LP Released 25th May 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Inner Tongue Favours £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mount Silver Records SKU: 6753396 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hugar Rift Rock And Pop | XXIM Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th March 2022 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hugar Rift £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XXIM Records SKU: 19439941571 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Foo Fighters The Colour & The Shape Rock And Pop | RCA | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th December 2011 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Foo Fighters The Colour & The Shape £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RCA SKU: 88697983221 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th December 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Editors In This Light And On This Evening Rock And Pop | PIAS | 1LP Released 10th August 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Editors In This Light And On This Evening £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASR185LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Cox Head Above Water Rock And Pop | Earmusic | 2LP Released 20th January 2023 £23.00 Select options Laura Cox Head Above Water £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Earmusic Formats: 2LP Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Suzanne Vega Close-Up Vol 4, Songs Of Family Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd December 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzanne Vega Close-Up Vol 4, Songs Of Family £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP524 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Foreign Tongues Fragile, As Said Before. 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