I Don't Wanna
	Produced by Michael Been and The Call and Don Smith
	Released on 1987
	no chart information
	Find it at GEMM
7-69461 w. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

I ain’t here to tell you what a great song this is, because it ain’t. U2 and Big Country did this sort of thing so much better. “I Don’t Wanna” doesn’t even have a discernible melody, just a little keyboard line that sounds like OMD’s “ABC Auto-Industry” which gets built upon by bass, drums and guitar. The whole thing leads up to a cheesy keyboard solo that could have been played on an $80 Casio for all I know (I’m pretty sure there’s a sour note in the solo too). Big Country and U2 made timeless music; The Call made music of the times. History, I suspect, will forget them. I’m not trying to be cruel, I just don’t see anybody unearthing this stuff fifty years hence and going “Eureka!” (“A-Ha!” maybe, but that’s a different story). The B side is “Day or Night” from the same album (Into the Woods) and (in my hoary oculi) is the better of the two tracks.

TRACK LISTING

1. I DON'T WANNA (EDIT)    (Michael Been)    4:14
2. DAY OR NIGHT    (Michael Been/Tom Ferrier)    4:12
   
   US 12-inch promo single
   
1. I DON'T WANNA (EDIT)
2. I DON'T WANNA (LP VERSION)

CREDITS

return to THE CALL discography

For more discographies visit...

© 2006 Connolly & Company. All rights reserved.