When the world was a toy shop

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today we hear "The Toy Shop" by the Immaculate Fools

After their ambitious but largely unnoticed second album, Another Man's World, Kevin Weatherill, his bass-playing brother Paul and the remaining three "flawless fools" took two years to make their third attempt at writing the perfect pop song . The new work is now called "The Toy Shop" and can be considered a complete success. The Immaculate Fools have discovered the electric guitar: Even in the opener "Stand Down" it squeaks and bangs and crashes with all its might.

"Good Times" is not much inferior to this and the remaining eight pieces are also much harder and more varied than last time. In addition to the usual violins, mandolins, harmonicas and various other folk instruments, there is also big country music. moderate guitar sounds were experimented with ("The Leaving Song") and even the traditional Spanish flutes of the "Xermolos", a Spanish folk group, were shamelessly incorporated into the Fools' music. Immaculate mastermind Kevin Weatherill, who played on all ten Songs acts as author and lyricist, but still remains true to himself. No flirting with trends and fashions.

"The world is a toy shop," says Weatherill, "men play with cannons and rockets." The five fools' trip to this toy store also lives primarily from the usual insinuating, melancholic melodies, extremely original arrangements and Kevin's chewed, slurred singing. The six-minute icing on the cake on top: "How The West Was Won" - just for this one eerily beautiful ballad, the Immaculate Fools finally deserve the big breakthrough. Because this piece is coming After all, it's pretty close to the perfect pop song we've longed for.

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