Música Obscura

1. Real love
2. Everybody's Mad at Katherine
3. I can't wait
4. Justine
5. Mad Love
6. Cost of Love
7. Thin Red Line
8. Ways of the Heart
9. Mrs Peel
10. Here Comes That Wave




Mark Goldenberg - Guitar, Vocals
Peter Bernstein - Bass, Vocals
Steve Leonard - Keyboards, Vocals
Steve Beers - Drums

Mark Goldenberg and Steve Leonard met in junior high school in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The two stuck together and went to Chicago Music College. As a freshman, Leonard was teaching a course on electronic music composition to graduate students. Goldenberg was playing the Chicago folk scene for a while. After forming the Eddie Boy Band, and moving to the West Coast, the band broke up. Stranded in Los Angeles, Goldenberg started making demo tapes of his material. He landed a job as guitarist for Al Stewart's touring band. Stewart's opening act was Wendy Waldman, whose sidemen included Steve Beers and Peter Bernstein. They hit it off together and the three later backed Waldman on tour. They decided they wanted their own band, and so the Cretones were born. Read the included newspaper article for more details...

From Wikipedia:
The Cretones were a Los Angeles based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist & former Eddie Boy Band member Mark Goldenberg, who also wrote the bulk of The Cretones' material, the group had a strong sense of melody and a lyrical wit that placed them a cut above most of their new wave peers.

They had one single which charted on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100: "Real Love" in the spring of 1980, which was from their first album "Thin Red Line". The song "Empty Heart" from their second album Snap Snap was their only other song to receive significant airplay on album rock stations, but it did not chart as a single.

They are perhaps best known as the group which provided four of the songs on Linda Ronstadt's platinum selling 1980's new wave album, Mad Love. Ronstadt's effort served to highlight and introduce Mark Goldenberg's tuneful melodies.

After the band broke up, Mark Goldenberg went on to write the song "Automatic" for the Pointer Sisters which was a hit in 1984. He later toured with artists such as Peter Frampton and Chris Isaak, and had moderate success as a new-age instrumental artist in Japan. Since 1994 he has been lead guitarist for Jackson Browne and continues to write play and produce. Cretones members Steve Beers and Peter Bernstein helped produce and compose the score to the TV show 21 Jump Street. Steve Beers has been producing television ever since while Peter Bernstein has gone on write numerous film and tv scores.

This is a very rare and hard to find album never released on CD. Digitized at 24bit/96KHz.

Encoded at 320K from vinyl album. Includes album cover art, track listing, and newspaper article.

http://rapidshare.com/files/51112421/cretones_trl.rar

Password: music

Check out the Cretone's 2nd album Snap Snap