Fischer-Z is an English group formed in 1976 by John Watts and Steve Skolnik. David Graham and Steve Liddle will be added some time later.
Their first hit "The worker", taken from the album "Word salad", was released in 1979.
But it is above all the astonishing Single "Crazy girl", released in 1980, with the yet psychadelo-danso-distressing sound that will reveal them to the general public. Title extracted from the album "Going deaf for a living" which will also extract another hit called "So long".
The success is confirmed especially in Europe and Australia but little in England, as paradoxical as it may seem.
In 1981, the album "Red skies over paradise" was released, which had an honest commercial journey, in part due to the title "Berlin".
It will be the last album of Fischer-Z first version because Watts decides to dissolve the group.
A group that was reborn in 1988, still under the leadership of Watts but with a completely overhauled team.
The album "Reveal" was released the same year.
Album from which the excellent "Perfect day" will be extracted.
Other albums will be released later but with less interest.
To discover or rediscover...
Discography (among others ...) :
70s Decade :
• Wax dolls 1978
• The worker 1979
80s Decade :
• So long 1980
• Crazy girl 1980
• Room service 1980
• Marliese 1981
• Berlin 1981
• The perfect day 1988
• Big drum 1988
• Masquerade 1989
90s Decade :
• Sausages & tears 1990
• Destination paradise 1992
• Will you be there ? 1993
• Human beings 1994
• You'll never cross the same river twice 1994
• Protection 1995
• Stream of unconscious 1995
2000s Decade :
• Beep 2002
• Fury 2002
• Plummeting 2002
2010s Decade :
• Just a man 2015
• The tale of Bales 2015
• Martha Thargill 2015
• Damascus Disco 2017
• Wild wild wild wild 2017
• There's a wilderness here 2017
• So close 2017
• Big wide world 2019
• Love train drama 2019
• Cardboard street 2019
2020s Decade :
• Choose 2021
• Waterside 2021
• Same boat 2021
• A.I.Owns.U. 2022
• The Hamburg beat 2023
• A plea 2024
Tracks :
1978 ... very psychedelic beginnings and totally wacky. The trend is given, they will do nothing like the others ...
1979 ... a wacky debut but a debut all the same noticed since they obtained their first classified title here. Rather encouraging for the rest of the events ...
1980 ... the rise. The style asserts itself, a style so particular that will forever remain their trademark. A style that pays in any case since they get here the biggest success of their entire career !
1980 ... the title which should normally have ensured them a direct ticket for posterity. A unique sound and voice that produces one of the most explosive songs of this decade. A title that will however go completely under the radars. Incredible but true...
1980 ... paradoxically, this title, there, will know a semblance of success while its melodic quality leaves something to be desired. Go figure ...
1981 ... they really alternate the good and the clearly less good. Fortunately, this will be part of the 1st category. Phew ...
1981 ... rocko-germanic delirium, in the purest musical style of this early 80's. The problem is that too much delirium kills delirium. And the success that goes with it ...
1988 ... 7 years of reflection before this comeback and above all, this winning return. Surely one of their best titles. Like what, it was enough that they land a little and everything is fine !
1988 ... a salutary rebirth which they combine with an obvious change of style. All good little guys even if success is not necessarily there. The main thing is the intention as they say !
1989 ... what is certain is that something has not changed since their beginnings : they are still as wacky ! Unfortunately, too much eccentricity kills eccentricity, hence the fact of having had a mixed career ...
1990 ... new decade change. Which is done more smoothly than the previous one, it's clear ...
1992 ... in folk mode, a radical change of sound. Not necessarily their business but why not ...
1993 ... the last hit of the group and again, a very small one. The adventure will continue but we really wonder after which runs the group given the lack of success garnered for several years ...
1994 ... we are slowly but surely getting closer to the end. But what an adventure. Admittedly, fragmented in two but which nevertheless produced several very large pieces ...
1994 ... come on, a little last for the road. The opposite of their original sound. An impressive and extremely rare gap in the musical history of the 80s. But it is also what made their charm !
1995 ... certainly the group will disappear from the Charts but that does not mean that the adventure will stop, far from it. The grassroots fans did not doubt it for a second...
1995...the group still has things to offer and especially things to sing. And not second choice but real quality...
2002...we will lose sight of them for almost 7 years but here they are again anyway. They won't let go until the end and it doesn't matter if there is success or not...
2002...a will to believe in it until the end which indisputably commands respect. Because a lot of others like them disappeared but never came back...
2002...you still have to remember that they started in 1979, which underlines all the more an exceptional longevity...
2015... there it is downright a 13-year air hole that the group will go through. But he returns once again, still as determined not to let go...
2015...and even if he doesn't really stick to the latest musical trends of the moment, he is far from deserving, it is clear...
2015...in any case once again it is the basic fans who are delighted as soon as a new opus sees the light of day. And us with them necessarily...
2017...the 2010 decade will see them produce a number of titles that are impressive to say the least. A flashback that is a pleasure to see...
2017... like what, in music, nothing is ever over. You just have to believe in it a little bit and everything is always possible...
2017...who would have thought when they started their career at the end of the 70s that they would still be there almost 40 years later. Not many people, that's for sure...
2017...they are still there anyway and determined to go as far as possible. It must be said that this decade 2010 sees an impressive number of groups from the 80s return, which shows that they are not the only ones to believe in it...
2019... this desire to believe in it until the end undoubtedly commands respect. Not sure that the bands that were born during this 2010 decade last in time as long as a certain number of bands from the 80s...
2019... what is obvious is that they take obvious pleasure in doing what they do otherwise the case would be over for a long time, that's for sure...
2019...a motivation almost as intact as when they started, a long-term model from which young bands should largely draw inspiration...
2021...they will have gone through the 70s, then the 80s, then the 90s, then the 2000s, then the 2010s and here they are at the gates of the 2020s. Who would have thought that possible...?!
2021... will this decade be the last, only the group is able to answer this question. In the meantime, we enjoy as they say...
2021...nothing is able to stop them for the moment anyway. And as always it is the grassroots fans who are delighted at the highest point...
2022... will they have the same level of productivity as during the previous decade, only time will tell...
2023...
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2024...
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