The Swimming Pool Q's "The Swimming Pool Q's" 1984

Swimming Pool Q's second release and first for a major label is an excellent album that's unfortunately been all but forgotten. Sounding very focused and sure, this was the band's most consistent work and the well-crafted songs keep coming one after another. Boston's vocals are a key reason the album works so well, giving a majestic sound to songs such as "The Bells Ring" and "Purple Rivers" and in the end, the album is more power pop than jangle. ~ Rob Caldwell, All Music GuideThe Q’s first full-length release, The Deep End [1981], reissued in 2001 as a deluxe CD, was an immediate classic of the new creative pop sound being forged in Atlanta and Athens at the turn of that decade. The band signed with A & M Records in 1984 and released two highly acclaimed albums, The Swimming Pool Q’s [1984], produced by David Anderle with Ed Stasium, and Blue Tomorrow [1986], produced by Mike Howlett. "Visionary pop eccentrics from Atlanta," noted Melody Maker. "Some of the most compelling rock sounds in all of America...lofty architectural style distinguished by the elegant and muscular guitar duets between Jeff Calder and Bob Elsey and [Anne] Boston's rhapsodic alto phrasings," said The Village Voice. In Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder wrote, "Overlaid with Calder's unusually literate songwriting sensibility, this musical melange is one of the freshest sounds coming out of the South." The Swimming Pool Q's were chosen as support act for LOU REED on his New Sensations comeback tour. from: http://www.swimmingpoolqs.com/

THE SWIMMING POOL Q’s:
Anne Richmond Boston: vocals, keyboards / Bill Burton: drums / Jeff Calder: vocals, rhythm guitar / J.E. Garnett: bass / Bob Elsey: lead guitar

traxfromwax:
1. The Bells Ring 2. Pull Back My Spring 3. Purple Rivers 4. The Knave 5. Some New Highway 6. Just Property 7. Silver Slippers 8. She's Bringing Down the Poison 9. Celestion 10. Sacrifical Alter