[mp3] Ivy Green

Ivy Green - "The Damage"

I feel as though I should be able to connect this directly with some better-known band, but I can't place it. Despite the horns, it doesn't have the right rhythm to come off as ska. Not really disco. Not exactly new wave. You'll have to pardon my obtuseness.

Huh, okay, the Dutch Rock & Pop Institute Encyclopedia says that they're Dutch, this single is from 1983, and the music is "influenced by 60s beat music". And finally, farther down the page-- man, sometimes the Internet is kind of a bummer-- it says somebody wanted to reissue the Ivy Green records on CD, but the band refused on principle. I will console myself with the thought that the rest of them might not actually be any good.