{"product_id":"fitzgerald-patrik-safety-pin-stuck-in-my-heart-lp-43500883491","title":"Patrik Fitzgerald - Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRSD Black Friday release. Patrik Fitzgerald was one of the oddities that punk rock threw up in 1977. a lone singer with an acoustic guitar, regaling punk audiences with lyrical songs and interspersing them with chats, stories and poems. Is this what people died in the Punk Wars for? the answer is an emphatic yes. There's no better example of the punk DIY attitude than the lone, slight figure of Patrik Fitzgerald making it happen and expressing himself on stage, singing songs of alienation, observation and imagined situations and often braving hostile receptions to communicate with an audience. While bands had the safety net of each other and the bombast of volume and wattage, he stood alone. Patrik had realism, pathos and incisive, sometimes uncomfortable, lyrics. Those early songs like \"Safety Pin in My Heart\" and \"All Sewn Up\" have amazingly stood the test of time and sound as relevant today as then. Patrik Fitzgerald was the \"Punk Poet.\" He is the great forgotten songwriter from the Class of '77. Patrik Fitzgerald never became a household name or punk icon like Rotten, Strummer or Weller, but to his loyal followers he is just as important and as inspirational. Same goes for Mark Perry, Vic Godard and Robert Lloyd. Like them, he is one of punk's idiosyncratic, singular voices: artistically successful, but too uncompromising for mainstream and commercial rewards. Fitzgerald's sincere attitude and eccentric appearance - commonly, a badge-cluttered blazer, red drainpipe trousers and sandals - set him squarely apart from his new wave brethren. He was always called a poet rather than a singer, as it was all about the words. Words full of tragedy, comedy, cynicism, realism, bitterness, pathos and just occasionally, hope. Tagged the \"new Dylan\" in '77, he was maybe more the new Leonard Cohen with a touch of social realism, although Bowie was his hero. \"The recordings remain true to me, even when I don't. This is what they are; the voice of a small, insecure, somewhat lost person, living in a small, insecure, somewhat lost country.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBanging and Shouting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSafety Pin Stuck in My Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWork. Rest. Play. Reggae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet We Free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOptimism\/Reject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy Me Sell Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Dippers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrendy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBackstreet Boys 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBabysitter 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIrrelevant Battles 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCruellest Crime 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Paranoid Ward 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bingo Crowd (Instrumental) 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLife at the Top 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRagged Generation (For Real) 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLive Out My Stars 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Sewn Up 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImprove Myself 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Fishes 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll the Years of Trying 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConventions of Life 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs Ugly As You 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I Get Famous 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll My Friends Are Dead Now 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdopted Girl 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bingo Crowd 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Secret Life 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimal Mentality 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePop Star Pop Star\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"79","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50560683573544,"sku":"843500883491","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/2809263.jpg?v=1763984062","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/fitzgerald-patrik-safety-pin-stuck-in-my-heart-lp-43500883491","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}