Dec 27,  · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Specialty Records Pressing Vinyl release of Present Tense on Discogs. Label: Elektra - 6E • Format: Vinyl LP, Album Specialty Records Pressing • Country: US • Genre: Rock • Style: Power Pop, New Wave4/5().

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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the PRC-W - PRC Compton Press Vinyl release of Present Tense on Discogs. Label: Elektra - 6E • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Stereo PRC-W - PRC Compton Press • Country: US • Genre: Rock • Style: New Wave, Power Pop/5(16).

Shoes Present Tense records, LPs and CDs.

The first of Shoes' three Elektra albums, Present Tense is almost a happy accident in ways -- not that the band hadn't already shown its particular approach beautifully with earlier efforts, but at a time when major labels were trying to figure out what punk and new wave could provide, Shoes just found a perfect balance. Recorded in England and co-produced by the band, Present Tense didn't end 8/

Shoes is an American power pop band, formed in Zion, Illinois, United States, in by brothers John and Jeff Murphy, and Gary Klebe and incorporating several different drummers including Skip Meyer, Barry Shumaker, Ric Menck, John Richardson, and Jeff Hunter.. Shoes formed their own record label, Black Vinyl Records, and owned and operated their own commercial recording studio (Short Order.

Present Tense is a power pop charmer from back in the heyday of New Wave and probably their best album (although you could make a case for 's Black Vinyl Shoes). Tongue Twister is a later and lesser effort of more interest to hard-core fans. Apparently, the only way to get a copy of Present Tense now is on this twofer.4/5(26).

present tense is kind of a polished up black vinyl shoes type record as black vinyl shoes was originally released by the band themselves in before they hit the major label here, the disc also includes loads of bonus stuff like home demos and some live stuff from the late 70s into , the second disc here is tongue twister from and /5(26).