Barnes & Barnes are one of my all-time favorite groups. They're most known for "Fish Heads", but they did a lot more than that, and many in a non-novelty vein. This is one of those songs. It's from the album Kodovoner, which was recorded in 1983... and just released in June of 2005. After recording two popular albums for Rhino records, Barnes & Barnes (a/k/a Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer) saw an ad in a trade magazine for an upcoming imprint on CBS which said that if they liked your demo tape, they'd give you a record. They thought it sounded promising, so they gave it a shot; the label liked the tape, and so preparations were made for an album. An EP was released, although it didn't sell as much as CBS wanted. The intended full-length follow-up had been locked in the vaults, never to come out. Barnes & Barnes went back to Rhino, and put out Amazing Adult Fantasy, a mix between straight New Wave songs and comedy numbers.
As for this song, it's basically the track I would point to as the reason why the record executives were wrong -- even if the rest of the album sucked (which it doesn't!), this song is the reason why it should have been released.
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