"You Don't Know" is track 6 on the remastered album, Fatal Slide.  It has a mid-tempo Stones/Clash rocker, Bowie 80's keyboard, driving drum and bass, with Mick Jagger style vocals.  

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Fatal Slide (Remastered)

You Don't Know

You Don't Know (Remastered) ● The Reds®

Funkasaurus has a pounding bass and drum drive, while keyboards and synths blast insanely around the beat to increase your heart rate.

7 BC

Funkasaurus

Funkasaurus ● Bruce Cohen

“Too Much” is a lean proto assault inspired in part by Dave Allan’s “Blues Theme” and early Stooges, with blazing fuzz as loud as ever, primal groove at its rawest, and sweaty howling peak.  

Lyrically the song's theme, “Vices are the virtues that tear you apart.”  The temptations that cross your path will be your demise.

Tightrope Ride

Too Much

Too Much ● Rick Shaffer

In 1984, The Reds®, consisting of founding members Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, found themselves in a situation, not unfamiliar.  Constant adversity, but with this change, the loss of drummer, Tommy Geddes, and bass player, Jim Peters.  The evidence is on their five song extended play album, Shake Appeal, named after the track on the Raw Power album, recorded by one of their musical influences, Iggy Pop.  The results are best exemplified on tracks "Laughing," "Waiting For You" and the closer "Beat Away" which has a booming Joy Division feel propelled by Shaffer's haunting vocals and disturbing lyrics.  Re-released in 2013 worldwide by Warner Bros., and in 2014 by Tarock Music in the USA.  It’s time to listen with new ears.

Shake Appeal

Laughing

Laughing ● The Reds®

Some Say is track 2 on Rick Shaffer’s 2014 album release, MISADVENTURE, and it  has him back in the garage again, with some of his best songs, performance and production to date.  The ragged edges, room echo, distortion, great hooks, and underlying menace are right in place for some compelling tension and adrenaline drenched garage blues.

Misadventure

Some Say

Some Say ● Rick Shaffer

“BOGALUSA” is a tough late 60's R&B’s influenced rock track.  "Heading for the Land of a thousand dances."

Sleeping Dog

Bogalusa ● Rick Shaffer

With the single release of Link, Rick Shaffer, founding member of The Reds®, has now focused his talent beyond his garage rock solo albums, to boost the garage rock genre with a Link Wray, and swamp blues inspired instrumental.  

Link

Link ● Rick Shaffer

Buy And Sell has a reverb soaked guitar hook, oversaturated riffs, driving Maureen Tucker drum beat, and a subdued confessional lead vocal, with some nice mid-60’s cool background vocals.  This song has one of the more catchy hooks on the album, and is a true candidate for a single.   This song is track #2 on Rick Shaffer's solo album, Hidden Charms.

Hidden Charms

Buy And Sell

Buy And Sell ● Rick Shaffer

Influenced by the British Rocker style of the 1960's, HARD TIMES SIXTY, is another Rick Shaffer instrumental single.

Hard Times Sixty

Hard Times Sixty ● Rick Shaffer

Dance Of The Siren, has flute like synths that play on top of a syncopated spacial sound. Strings elevate the music for this dance of death by the deadly Siren.

8 BC

Dance Of The Siren

So Tired is track 4 on Rick Shaffer's sixth solo album, Jitterbug Shake.  The song is a reflective freewheeling approach to one’s morality, and media overload.

Jitterbug Shake

So Tired

So Tired ● Rick Shaffer

Atmospheric  guitar treatments a textured Iggy / Bowie sound.

Pleasure

Funky Gojira is for all the Godzilla hipsters.  But, this time, the Big Guy’s theme is a funky Eno exploration, with bouncing bass plugs, along with stomping funk drums. 

Two BC

Funky Gojira

Funky Gojira ● Bruce Cohen

"Going Down Slow" is track 2 on Rick Shaffer's album Outside Of Time.  The song is late 60’s early 70’s late night hard rock pile driver.

Outside Of Time

Going Down Slow ● Rick Shaffer

Four BC

Seen ● Bruce Cohen

Modern Lie is a reflective cautionary approach to deception, with a 1970’s British hard rock glam style production.

Stolen Moments

Modern Lie ● Rick Shaffer

Wild has a Rolling Stones loose feel rocker, mid tempo with 60's style percussion and very Jagger like vocal. Track is alternative sounding and would be good in action, drama, horror and thriller.  Wild  is track #1 on The Reds® album, Fugitives From The Laughing House.

Fugitives From The Laughing House

Wild

Wild ● The Reds®

DIGGIN' IT is track #3 on The Reds® album, EARLY NOTHING.  FOLLOW THE REDS® on TWITTER at twitter.com/TarockMusic, or join Rick Shaffer on Facebook at, facebook.com/TheRedsMusic.

Early Nothing

Diggin' It

Diggin' It ● The Reds®

This instrumental by Rick Shaffer is a Link Wray / Yardbirds homage . . . let it rock.

Rave Up

Rave Up ● Rick Shaffer

Bruce Cohen's single release, "BIG GUY RETURNS," has a has a great 1970’s Herbie Hancock Head Hunters funk groove, with ambient textures.

Big Guy Returns

Big Guy Returns ● Bruce Cohen

Trip and hop to And How's heavy groove with the melodic strings of the Angelo Badalamenti orchestra.  This song is track #8 on Bruce Cohen's solo album, ONE BC.

One BC

And How

And How ● Bruce Cohen

The heart of Necessary Illusion's sound is delivered in the opening track, ”Lucky Day,” where bad luck and fate take an altered metallic stomp, thumping drum percussion, with a dark bluesy vocal, framed in slashing guitar leads.  Track #2 on Rick Shaffer's solo album, Necessary Illusion. 

Necessary Illusion

Necessary Illusion ● Rick Shaffer

Hard drum heavy modern rocker, driving bass, hard guitar, possessed vocal and electronic keyboards in an Eno style.  Track #1 on The Reds® album, Fatal Slide.

Fatal Slide

Five Year Plan

Five Year Plan ● The Reds®

Track #1 on The Reds® debut album entitled, The Reds.

The Reds

Victims

Victims ● The Reds®

Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, a/k/a The Reds®, composed and performed the score of "MANHUNTER."   The soundtrack album was released in limited quantities in 1986 on MCA Records (#6182), but the film's failure at the box office prevented a release on the then new compact disc format. Soon afterwards, the 12" record and audio cassette were deleted making them highly sought after by fans of the film. Currently, the film is a cult classic and can be viewed almost daily on various cable channels all over the world, while the soundtrack has become a huge collectors item.  The original 1986 release was on MCA Record, and re-released on Intrada Records in 2010.

Manhunter

Jogger's Stakeout

Jogger's Stakeout ● The Reds®

One More Heartache is about living in the present with your convictions, not being swayed by money or media, with the aspect of sometimes having the truth suffer, through no fault of your own, but it’s still the truth.  It has a 1960’s R&B rocker feel, with melodic guitar hooks, and repetitive verses/chorus.  

Idiot Flats

One More Heartache

One More Heartache ● Rick Shaffer

CRY TOMORROW is track #8 on The Reds® album, CRY TOMORROW.

Cry Tomorrow

Cry Tomorrow ● The Reds®

KILLING YOU is track #8 on The Reds® album, STRONGER SILENCE.  In February 2020 Tarock Music released a remaster of Stronger Silence.  Go to the track on Tarock Music's SoundCloud profile to listen.

Stronger Silence

Killing You

Killing You ● The Reds®

All funk all the time, while bass and drums drive the groove and sweeping synths add the melody,

Five BC

What Is It ● Bruce Cohen

“High Point” by The Reds was written and produced by original founding members Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen.  With this 2019 single release The Reds return with their signature raw, hypnotic and atmospheric definitive spirit.  Recorded in Miami, the duo created a ferocious and relentless attack of sound.  The metallic fragmented guitars, dense electronic textures, tribal groove and haunting world-weary vocals give the listener a rocking, powerful and absorbing tune to grab onto.

Credits: Cover design, Theresa Marchione; Original artwork "Roar" by Chris Dale, http://artchrisdale.blogspot.com/

To read the entire bio and discography of The Reds visit THE REDS OFFICIAL WEBSITE ► https://www.TarockMusic.com

High Point

High Point ● The Reds®

Killing You is track #8 on The Reds® remastered album, STRONGER SILENCE.

Stronger Silence (Remastered)

Killing You (Remastered) ● The Reds®

Under The Nova has some Enoesque funk, with groove oriented bass and drums, while synths and organ sweep in and out.

Six BC

Under The Nova ● Bruce Cohen

Rick Shaffer’s track, Like Fire, is a late night classic full of haunting emotion that’s a poignant overdose tale that harkens back to the psychedelic undertow of Jim Morrison and The Doors.  The song contains some guitar work stylings like the work Shaffer did with The Reds on the Band of the Hand soundtrack.  His guitar work has mysterious, taut and razor sharp phrasing and, not to be ignored, his vocal is a dark soulful rasp with an undiminished singers’ poetic passion.

Broken Souls

Like Fire ● Rick Shaffer

In 1977, Tarock Music, was started as a music publishing company, in Philadelphia, PA, by Rick Shaffer, founding member of The Reds®.  In 1982 the company moved to New York City to combine artist management and music licensing by partnering with Basic Management, adding an independent record label in 1992, with the release of The Reds® album, Cry Tomorrow.   In 2006, to accommodate an in-house recording studio, the company relocated to Pennsylvania midway between New York City and Philadelphia, for easy access to both cities.  

Our song writers and recording artists, are Rick Shaffer (Blues/Garage Rock), and Bruce Cohen (Electronica/EDM), who together are known as The Reds® (Indie/Alternative Rock).   Visit our web site TarockMusic.com to see our artist profiles. 

The publishing and masters in our catalog are owned 100% by Tarock Music for quick and easy licensing within the parameter of any project budget.
 
MANAGEMENT: Theresa Marchione, Basic Management 

NOTE ∎ The Reds® is a Registered Trademark, with the first use date of 3/17/77.

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