Shoes
Black Vinyl Shoes

Listening notes

Shoes were a rock group whose catalog intersects the genres of new wave, pop, power pop, and pop rock. This 1993 CD release on Rev-Ola, cataloged as CREV 016CD, brings together fifteen tracks under the title Black Vinyl Shoes — a title that, given the band's name, carries an evident self-referential quality.

The tracklist runs from "Boys Don't Lie" through to "Nowhere So Fast," covering considerable ground across its fifteen positions. Among the titles collected here are "She'll Disappear," "Writing A Postcard," "Someone Finer," "Capital Gain," and "Fire For A While," alongside "Tragedy," "Fatal," "Running Start," and several others. Track durations are not documented in the available data.

Rev-Ola was a reissue imprint, and this release appearing in 1993 under that label suggests the material predates this particular edition, though the original recording and release history of the underlying content is not something the available facts speak to directly. What can be said plainly is that this CD represents one documented configuration of the Shoes catalog as it existed under that label at that time.

For collectors and researchers approaching Shoes through a vinyl-oriented reference framework, the title Black Vinyl Shoes carries some additional irony given that this specific release is a compact disc rather than a vinyl pressing. The catalog number CREV 016CD makes the format explicit.

Fifteen tracks spread across genres that overlap substantially — new wave and power pop share considerable territory, as do pop and pop rock — makes precise genre placement a matter of some judgment. The genres listed here are those associated with this release in the available record.

This draft is unreviewed and should be checked against primary sources before publication.