Bill Nelson - Atom Shop

Bill Nelson - Atom Shop
available at the Bill Nelson Record Store
Released on Discipline Global Mobile (UK) on September 29, 1998
US release date is October 13, 1998 on Discipline, distributed by Rykodisc
Compact Disc is enhanced and contains the DGM catalog.

Just 'Atom Shop' for the UK

Just 'Atom Shop' for the rest of the world

Both 'Atom Shop' and 'What Now, What Next' for the UK

Both 'Atom Shop' and 'What Now, What Next' for the rest of the World

On this album, Bill Nelson plays the following guitars:
A 1956 Supro Belmont, a 1960 Wandre Plastic Body, a Continental Tricone Resonator, and a Danelectro Guitarlin repro by Hondo of Japan.

Guitar processing by Zoom and Digitech.

Keyboards made by Yamaha and Emu Systems.

Thanks to David Singleton and everyone at Discipline Global Mobile, Richard Chadwick at Opium (Arts) Ltd, Yuka Fujii, Rick Harrison and the staff of Music Ground, Doncaster, England, Mark Rushton at The Bill Nelson website, USA.  Chocolates and Flowers to you all.

Special thanks to Mitchell Froom and Robert Fripp

Love, as always, to Emiko, without whom skies would be cloudy all day.

Permanent Flame - The Bill Nelson Web Site resides at http://www.billnelson.com

Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg and 
William Burroughs and the fabulous ghosts of
mythic America
All music and lyrics composed, performed, engineered, and produced by Bill Nelson at various intervals during 1996-1997.
Recorded at Tape Recorder Cottage and the Atom Shop Record-o-mat, Yorkshire, England.
Mastered by David Singleton assisted by Alex R. Mundy at DGM HQ.
Recorded on an ancient Fostex 16 track analog tape machine via an equally ancient Allen and Heath systems 8 mixing desk.
Art direction by Bill Nelson Sleeve art produced by Mixed Images Ltd.
Photograph of Bill Nelson by Anderson & Low.
All songs published by Nelsongs/Complete Music Ltd.
Bill Nelson is represented worldwide by Opium (Arts) Ltd, London, England.  Fax (44) 171 229 4841
A Big Buzz In A Small Jar production for Discipline Global Mobile 1998.


US/UK track listing:
  1. Wild And Dizzy
  2. Dreamsville
  3. Magic Radio
  4. Pointing At The Moon
  5. Train With Fins
  6. Popsicle Head-Trip
  7. Propellor of Legend
  8. Viva Le Voom-Voom
  9. Billy Infinity
  10. She Gave Me Memory
  11. My World Spins
  12. Rocket Ship
  13. Girlfriend With Miracles
  14. Dizzy On The Dial
  15. Atom Shop (Is Closing)

Reviews:
Have you seen a review of this album?  If so, please send it to webmaster@billnelson.com
 
Mojo magazine (UK music magazine)
By David Sheppard. 

A veritable glut of Nelsonia released to coincide with the cerebral Yorkshireman's live re-emergence at London's
Southbank Centre. 

After his success with Be-Bop Deluxe and Red Noise, Nelson's profile dipped in the '80s to the extent that six albums'
worth of subsequent solo material went unreleased. This 31 track double CD retrospective of his own Cocteau label
material proves that his gifts for skewed melodic rock and burbling cut 'n ' paste arrangements weren't dimmed by
anonymity. 

From the T. Rex-in-space hit Do You Dream In Colour? to the delicate ambience of Opium, everything here is
executed with purposeful precision. Of the "lost" albums, Bungalow Funland and Noise Candy are the most
represented - both full of typically Nelsonian guile and eclecticism. 

Atom Shop partly returns Nelson to the angular, surrealistic pop of his early '80s incarnation while reprising the
junglist-with-a-PhD soundcrafting of 1996's After The Satellite Sings. Matching wonderfully executed guitar stylings
with lyrics set in a fantastic '50s sci-fi timewarp(Rocket Ship, Train With Fins, etc.), this is a curiously seamless blend
of sibliant drum 'n' bass (Pointing At The Moon) and twisted powerpop (Popsicle Head Trip). A welcome return. 

 


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