we listen so fast: forgotten/unkown/unloved 80s we are listening to.

yeah second on both ums comments, that was neat

subway sect predate everybody except for the pistols, damned and clash. post-punk starts there!

and HUGE acknowledged influence on all things scottish post-punk.

Absolutely, which is why Alan Horne issued Vic Godard's End of the Surrey People LP on his revived Postcard label in 1993.

you can really hear the wool sweaters on that early subway sect stuff. Vic Godard is a really great pop star name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCuStj9Ld4

xp it is and somewhere out there in indieland is vic picard making bad in in in jokes that feel inevitable only to him

1983/1984. ohio U.S.A. art-rock/post-punk. cool EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvi_rDOXts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUNo0nG2aE

apparently some relation to these people?
Bands That Time Forgot: Wolverton Brothers

do i need to listen to The Band of Holy Joy? guess they were 80s and 90s. and maybe beyond. never heard them. they have a lot of stuff. i have their 1990 rough trade album here. and probably other stuff.

I recall them sounding like a Weimar Republic-era version of the Pogues, if that helps

uhhh...hmmmm...

This is the song I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFZ_YdfJzg

only the first tapes and EP are any good imho

I like those Junta songs. Lead guy went on to a band called Redmath, which is good gloomy dance rock but not as experimental and not as interesting to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-juN-E8V7k

Two words. Red Math. Mea culpa.

Tried playing Band of Holy Joy's Manic, Magic, Majestic the other day, as I remembered the Pogues comparison with McGowan's death. Only song I liked was the one that made me get the record, heard first on a Melody Maker comp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_QOSQUNE8o

i know that scratch acid were big birthday party fans but i forgot about inca babies.

the other two Birthday Party worship acts out at the time, who I've never heard anybody mention but me were Anorexic Dread and Turkey Bones & the Wild Dogs. This was the Anorexic Dread 12" I had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T01Dzktyzxw

and here's the only somewhat less forgotten Turkey Bones & the Wild Dogs, who are biting the Cramps as hard as the BP to be fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ryhm2cx8w

they cover all the bases...

https://i.discogs.com/IbCkaQmxNT4GipUnU5lAlWNHzLoHoIiXu_G1QcN6YBA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:581/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyODA0/NjEtMTU4NTMzNTI3/Ni04OTQ2LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/3rUyUMgHTxdqEfihS0eO-u91czENlkn9Fu9y-FUnMGs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:581/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyODA0/NjEtMTU4NTMzNTMy/MC03NzI1LmpwZWc.jpeg

i'm not ashamed to admit that i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. well, maybe a little ashamed...

#nostalgia

Easterhouse was the first promo I was ever assigned. Gave them a good review, of course. I still listen to it!

My roommate, who also signed up to write reviews for the college newspaper got a less forgotten/unknown/unloved assignment: Licensed to Ill and Yo Bum Rush the Show.

that’s an awesome assignment in 2005 tho.

Squeeze's 70s bass player made a cool album in 1980. the bass is cool on it in that 70s Squeeze way but its the synths that rule on this record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmMBtVzIkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsXt6I7Xrg

That's a nice find (especially since it presumably turned up in western mass)
Maybe he should've teamed up with Klark Kent for some kind of 1980 new wave sidemen supergroup

Yeah, I dig those tracks. I’ve never seen that LP in the wild.

same! sent me down the oval records rabbit hole which turned up some vaguely familiar new wave obscurities i've never got round to listening too. who knew that martyn bates of eyes in gaza was once in a band (the reluctant stereotypes) with paul king of king fame?

jesus my frozen fingers aren't typing too well! eyeless in gaza ffs

this is great tbh, huge this heat vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUqXsDqDrU
Reluctant Stereotypes - The Lull

somehow after that they got signed by WEA and morphed into quite a shitty-sounding ska band

The lone album by The Secret was on Oval. Not on YouTube but this track is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hiu3IJO9R0

was kinda hoping that was a 999 cover, oh well

this is great tbh, huge this heat vibes:

Reluctant Stereotypes - The Lull

somehow after that they got signed by WEA and morphed into quite a shitty-sounding ska band

Also reminds me of that Edward Gorey album Robert Wyatt sang on (Michael Mantler?)

goddamn...Polyrock - s/t album from 1980, tense arty new wave produced by an obscure modern composer named Philip Glass

i am in love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgvNzWqcRo

they spent soooooooooooooooo much money on that album. publicity-wise. so many ads. for so long. someone really wanted it to go big. there are still so many promos of it across the country. they must have pressed a million promo copies.
but, heck yeah, if you are a Feelies or Love Tractor fan, then you will definitely like that first album a ton.

i love some tight ass nervous ants in your pants new wave vibes, this is doing it nicely

that's really funny someone thought it would be popular

i still can't get over how much i like that album by The Thought. Dutch group. its so cool. unfortunately, it has one of those generic "weird" 80s covers that is terrible. i would reissue it with a better cover. after hearing the album for the first time i totally remembered seeing the video for their cover of "eight miles high" on MTV! it impressed me back then in 1985 because the video was of someone on an acid trip and you didn't see that every day on MTV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcjoOSEz_s

given yr of release that polyrock is pretty next level

Really like 'your dragging feet' off that polyrock album, bit of a dreamy one. Still hoping to bump into a copy in the wild here but i must be going to the wrong shops

one of my friends in high school bought that The Thought album in a thrift store and hung it on his wall, we were hoping it would sound weirder than it did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auOoDmnmrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5KnBSG46uU
Dole - Rumroad (from 'The Speed of Hope', PIAS 1986)

^ bought this Belgian postpunk album for cheap today, mainly drawn by the words 'Produced by Adrian Borland' (!!!) on the hype sticker. really liking this song in particular, but it's all pretty decent. sounds a lot like Sad Lovers & Giants or someone of that ilk. anyone else know them?

(also bought an EP by The Dance which it turns out i already had at home, think they're connected somehow to Polyrock who we were talking about just a few posts up? they were also the band that played on that amazing Chandra record iirc)

shoutout to polyrock. 'romantic me' is very classic. both of those albums are great new wave.

People from both The Dance and Polyrock were originally in Model Citizens, who had a great John Cale produced single in 79 and finally got a full comp last year.

cheers dan! this sounds great tbh, fun band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFku3zHNtUo

oops thats very shitty sound quality, this is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3CeUynEsA

Polyrock had 2 tracks on that Blitz comp that came out in 81. $2.99 and people kind of laughed it off, but a good comp. First place I ever heard Sparks, also had great tracks from Bow Wow Wow and Slow Children. And this from Landscape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY1lIBAMP7E

Misses the remit of this thread by a few months, but always loved The Rumour's Frogs Sprouts Clogs and Krauts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY57S7G1dwM