Album Review:
...And His Orchestra
- Release Date: 1987
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Pop Llama
- Artist: Fastbacks
- Flags: Lyrics are included with the album
- Rating:
- Styles: Indie Rock, Punk-Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
- Track Picks: "Seven Days," "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong"
- Similar Albums: George Best [George Best Plus],
Succumbs , Now That's What I Call Quite Good!, Charmed Life, Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest/Topsy Turvy, Let It Bee, Mosquitos, Post-Mersh, Vol. 2, Cloudcuckooland, Drum, Treehouse, The Love Songs, Bucky Fellini
Review
Fastbacks' first album was slapped together from three sessions tracked out over 11 months (one in an actual recording studio, two on TEAC four-tracks in rehearsal studios), and as a result it lacks some of the punch and cohesion of their best work. But Kurt Bloch's songs were well worth hearing from the start, and ... And His Orchestra features several winners, including "K Street," "Seven Days," and the horn-enhanced "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong." And the band sounds tight and enthusiastic throughout, even if the audio sometimes lets them down; Fastbacks also come clean on their fondness for '70s hard rock with a ragged-but-right take on Sweet's "Set Me Free." A more than promising start for a band destined for better (if not always bigger) things. The CD reissue tacks on nine songs from the group's first two self-released EPs as a bonus. ~ Mark Deming, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Seven Days | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:45) | |
| Light's on You | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (4:01) | |
| If You Tried | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:53) | |
| Don't Cry for Me | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:47) | |
| In the Winter | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:39) | |
| Wrong, Wrong, Wrong | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:49) | |
| K Street | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:18) | |
| You Will Be the One | Richard Stuverud | Fastbacks | (3:22) | |
| Call It What You Want | Kurt Block | Fastbacks | (5:22) | |
| Set Me Free | Andy Scott | Fastbacks | (3:42) | |
| I Need Some Help | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:33) | |
| Midnight Confessions | Lou Josie | Fastbacks | (2:44) | |
| See and Say | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:25) | |
| Only at Night | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:19) | |
| What Will They All Say? | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:37) | |
| In America | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (4:38) | |
| No Lethal Hope | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:05) | |
| Fast Enough | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:37) | |
| Wait! | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (2:34) | |
| Whenever I'm Walking | Kurt Bloch | Fastbacks | (3:42) |
