The Demics - New York

27 song compilation of everything from this somewhat unknown punk band from 1977/78 and a great find for fans of this time period. The Demics began in the late `70`s in London, Ontario and soon moved from the small club setting where their style of punk was barely appreciated to the hotbed of the Canadian punk scene itself -- Toronto. In 1978, the Demics had gained enough fame to land spots opening for a number of big punk rock- and new wave-style acts. A few months later, the band released a debut five-track EP, Talks Cheap. The vinyl record is now a hard-to-find collector`s commodity. The biggest hit the group had from the recording, and the song the Demics is probably best known for, was "New York City." "Ain`t rock`n`roll swell? There are few other places where you can be thoroughly derivative and still utterly entertaining. Witness London (later Toronto), Ontario`s Demics, four students (half of them British) in the sneer-and-swagger school taught by the New York Dolls and, later, the Damned. The band`s self-titled album bristles with eager-to-please energy (never mind that the boys play at being nasty). The poignance when they drop the mask and sing, "I want to go to New York City / They tell me that`s the place to be" is positively heart-wrenching. The earlier EP (recorded with a different guitarist) offers five equally innocuous and likable slices of punkishness in the same vein, including the aforementioned Stones-like "New York City.""-TrouserPress.

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