Tom Robinson & Jakko M. Jakszyk - We Nerver Had It So Good (1990) / Blood Brother (1997 reissue)

Critically-acclaimed collaboration with Dizrhthmia´s Jakko Jakszyk featuring his virtuoso guitar work plus drum guru Gavin Harrison behind the kit. On the strength of this album Jakko went on to play guitar for Level 42.

The 1997 reissue includes "Rigging" - an outtake from the original album - plus brand new versions of "Jonestown" and "The War Is Over", fist featured on Castway Club CD Vol. 2.

"Tom Robinson and Jakko Hakszyk have prduced one of the best albums I´ve encountered in a long time and anything less than worldwide acclaim will be considered lip service. If "War Baby" (1983) was Tom´s first real show of strenght then this album is his tour de force - a veritable assault on the creeping complacency of the past decade. 

The conflicts of belonging to what is seen as a sexual minority (by the conservative majority) is a major focus of this album. Reflections are recorded here with no rose tinted glasses: "Why this hysteria? You know you´ve never even met me." "Blood Brother" tackles the same thorny issue where notions of sexual ambiguity and sexual denial are tenderly but well illustrated." - Siobhan Long, Hot Press. December 1990.


Tracklist:

1. We Never Had It So Good (4:02)
2. Driving Through The Desert (5:08)
3. Blood Brothers (5:23)
4. What Have I Ever Done To You (5:24)
5. The Baby Rages On (4:28)
6. Tomboy (3:27)
7. Kiss & Roll Over (4:55)
8. Hard Cases (4:08)
9. Can't Stop: Peter's Theme (4:11)
10. My Own Sweet Way (2:24)

Bonustracks:
11. Rigging It Up, Duncannon
12. Jonestown
13. The War Is Over
14. Happy In The Homelands

Tom Robinson & Jakko M. Jakszyk - We Nerver Had It So Good (1990)
(320 kbps, cover art included)