CODE BLUE (EP)
Code Blue recorded in Van Nuys, California and also in London; changing producers along the way, their first album, Code Blue was finally released in 1980. I only have a promotional EP for their first album as shown above (also called Code Blue), but it is such uniformly excellent music that I had to include them as a UARB. Code Blue mounted a national tour, opening for Thin Lizzy (with yet another bass player on hand, Joe Read); but it was reportedly not well-received. A second album called True Story came out in 1982 on a different label, and shortly afterward, the band broke up.
Meanwhile, the Code Blue EP was insinuating itself into the part of my cerebrum where my favorite songs are stored; after just a few plays, I was really starting to love these four songs – “Whisper/Touch”, “Face to Face”, “Hurt”, and “The Need” (all written by Dean Chamberlain). They were even starting to play inside my head, as all four of them have been doing regularly while I have been putting this post together. That is pretty rare actually: Once again, I have been reminded that I do not consciously pick the music that I love.
(September 2012)
