Condition Blue
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| Condition Blue | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Pop, alternative rock, pop rock | |||
| Label | Creation | |||
| Producer | The Jazz Butcher | |||
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Condition Blue is an album by the English musician the Jazz Butcher, released in 1992.[1][2] "She's a Yo-Yo" was released as a single.[3] The Jazz Butcher supported the album with a North American tour; the live album Western Family, released in 1993, documents the tour.[4][5]
The album title is British slang for an act's exit from a performing venue.[6] The Jazz Butcher thought that Condition Blue was his band's first album to present all of its musical characteristics and traits.[7] He considered it to be a plea for the return of an ex-lover as well as a document of a nervous breakdown, and saw similarities between his situation and the work of Martin Amis.[8][9][10] The Jazz Butcher was affected by the mainstream "breakup" pop—Phil Collins and Michael Bolton—that he heard in pubs while dealing with his problems and decided to create something with similar but rawer lyrical themes.[11] His band urged him to rewrite some of the more depressing lyrics.[12] "Our Friends the Filth" describes spycraft in 1960s Beirut.[8] "Girls Say Yes" is an homage to the music of Dave Stewart.[13] "Shirley MacLaine" is less about the actress than about a certain kind of self-indulgent book and self-regarding attitude.[13] "Harlan" is named for Harlan Ellison.[14] "Honey" expresses a desire to find a woman who will watch Twin Peaks with the Jazz Butcher.[3]
