Lowe, Nick- Wireless World [DUSTBIN GREEN VINYL] - New LP
Repackaging of Nick Lowe's 1978 album Jesus of Cool (UK version) / Pure Pop For Now People (US version), combining the track listings of both versions. Pressed on green dustbin splatter vinyl. Jesus of Cool by Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: On the cover of his solo debut album Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe is pictured in six rock & roll get-ups -- hippie, folkie, greasy rock & roller, new wave hipster -- giving the not-so-subtle implication that this guy can do anything. Nick proves that assumption correct on Jesus of Cool, a record so good it was named twice, as Lowe's American record label got the jitters with Jesus and renamed it Pure Pop for Now People, shuffling the track listing (but not swapping songs) in the process. As it happens, both titles are accurate, but while the U.K. title sounds cooler, capturing Lowe's cheerfully blasphemous rock & roll swagger, Pure Pop describes the sound of the album, functioning as a sincere description of