New York Fever (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = New York Fever
| type = album
| artist = The Toasters
| cover = New York Fever (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Ska
| length = 45:10
| label = Moon{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yn80EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|title=Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ’90s Ska and Swing|first=Kenneth|last=Partridge|date=September 14, 2021|publisher=Penn State Press|via=Google Books}}
| producer =
| prev_title = This Gun for Hire
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Dub 56
| next_year = 1994
}}
New York Fever is an album by the American band the Toasters, released in 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-toasters-mn0000479350/biography|title=The Toasters Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&pg=PA691|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=January 5, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezTpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA205|title=New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB|first=Steven|last=Blush|date=October 4, 2016|publisher=Macmillan|via=Google Books}} The band supported the album with a North American tour.{{cite news |title=Toast to the Toasters |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=17 May 1993 |page=1D}}
Production
The album was mixed by Joe Jackson, under the alias "Stanley Turpentine".{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title=Pop and rock |work=Chicago Tribune |date=2 Oct 1992 |department=Friday |page=S}}{{cite news |last1=McLennan |first1=Scott |title=The Toasters, a premier ska band... |work=Telegram & Gazette |date=20 May 1993 |page=C5}}
Critical reception
{{album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
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Trouser Press wrote that the album "gets off to a tremendous start with the tight, energetic title track and the swaggering groove and social commentary of 'Ploughshares into Guns' ... After that one-two punch, though, tight musicianship takes the place of solid songwriting."{{cite web |title=Toasters |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/toasters/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=5 January 2023}} The Kitchener-Waterloo Record opined that "the production on this album is superb, with the bass runs punctuating rather than rolling."{{cite news |last1=Randall |first1=Neil |title=Everyone should hear the Toasters |work=The Kitchener-Waterloo Record |date=15 July 1993 |page=D8}} The Arizona Daily Star called the album "funny, fun and insightful," writing that it "incorporates elements of funk, township jive, calypso and dance-hall music."{{cite news |title=Starlist |work=Arizona Daily Star |date=January 8, 1993}}
AllMusic noted that "the songwriting could be a bit more polished and melodic in places instead of relying on the group's admittedly fine instrumental work."
Track listing
- "New York Fever" - 2:08
- "Ploughshares into Guns" - 3:29
- "History Book Version" - 2:57
- "Too Hip to Be Cool" - 3:35
- "Night Train" - 4:30
- "Social Security" - 2:55
- "Shebeen" - 4:05
- "Johnny, Forsake Her" - 3:58
- "Too Much Happening" - 2:54
- "Pool Shark (Reprise)" - 3:15
- "B27" - 3:47
- "Ploughshares Version" - 3:30
- "Pablo's Shebeen" - 4:15
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070427093038/http://toasters.org/ Official Toasters Website]
{{The Toasters}}
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