I recall them sounding like a Weimar Republic-era version of the Pogues, if that helps
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:27 (nine months ago) link
uhhh...hmmmm...
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:31 (nine months ago) link
This is the song I remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFZ_YdfJzg
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:36 (nine months ago) link
only the first tapes and EP are any good imho
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:48 (nine months ago) link
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
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:50 (nine months ago) link
Two words. Red Math. Mea culpa.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:08 (nine months ago) link
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
― bendy, Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:39 (nine months ago) link
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
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:11 (nine months ago) link
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
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:13 (nine months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Friday, 29 December 2023 18:43 (nine months ago) link
i'm not ashamed to admit that i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. well, maybe a little ashamed...
#nostalgia
― scott seward, Friday, 29 December 2023 18:44 (nine months ago) link
Easterhouse was the first promo I was ever assigned. Gave them a good review, of course. I still listen to it!
― bendy, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:53 (nine months ago) link
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.
― bendy, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:57 (nine months ago) link
that’s an awesome assignment in 2005 tho.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:19 (nine months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:02 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SsXt6I7Xrg
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:05 (eight months ago) link
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
― enochroot, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:34 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, I dig those tracks. I’ve never seen that LP in the wild.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:07 (eight months ago) link
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?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:28 (eight months ago) link
jesus my frozen fingers aren't typing too well! eyeless in gaza ffs
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:30 (eight months ago) link
this is great tbh, huge this heat vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUqXsDqDrUReluctant Stereotypes - The Lull
somehow after that they got signed by WEA and morphed into quite a shitty-sounding ska band
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:35 (eight months ago) link
The lone album by The Secret was on Oval. Not on YouTube but this track is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hiu3IJO9R0
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
was kinda hoping that was a 999 cover, oh well
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 12 January 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
Reluctant Stereotypes - The Lull
Also reminds me of that Edward Gorey album Robert Wyatt sang on (Michael Mantler?)
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 18:11 (eight months ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 January 2024 16:17 (eight months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:58 (eight months ago) link
i love some tight ass nervous ants in your pants new wave vibes, this is doing it nicely
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:00 (eight months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:05 (eight months ago) link
given yr of release that polyrock is pretty next level
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 19 January 2024 03:48 (eight months ago) link
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
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2024 08:44 (eight months ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:17 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auOoDmnmrI
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:07 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5KnBSG46uUDole - 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?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:13 (eight months ago) link
(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)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:21 (eight months ago) link
shoutout to polyrock. 'romantic me' is very classic. both of those albums are great new wave.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:41 (eight months ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:43 (eight months ago) link
cheers dan! this sounds great tbh, fun band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFku3zHNtUo
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:50 (eight months ago) link
oops thats very shitty sound quality, this is better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3CeUynEsA
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:51 (eight months ago) link
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
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 25 January 2024 23:05 (eight months ago) link
Model Citizens Shift the Blame single was ubiquitous for a long time. I think I've owned like 4 copies.
― dan selzer, Friday, 26 January 2024 02:26 (eight months ago) link
holy shit, i did not know that there was actually a band member named brinsley schwarz, also i did not know this rumour was that rumour.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 January 2024 02:41 (eight months ago) link
I see Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs were mentioned up thread. I think they were doing their own thing with a number of previous references but seemed to take their own tack. There were definite Birthday Party connections, Scott and Piece apparently made a habit of going to BP shows grabbing the mic and singing "Danger Zone in the heart of Missouri" and they were captured on the beginning of Drunk On The Pope's Blood doing so. That has lead to some resources listing the song as a BP one. I hear a lot less Cramps, do hear Beefheart and Creedence and a few other things. I was really hoping somebody would do a reissue preferably all their extant studio recordings maybe plus some Groovy Chainsaws stuff plus a load of live material. They supposedly filmed all their shows so I wonder if audio from that would have been good enough quality.Story was that the band never rehearsed they just filmed every show, watched them collectively and tried to change what they didn't like. I really don't know the degree of truth to that. Does seem like it's a good story though and there apparently were a LOAD of videos.I saw them a load of times in the Hope & Anchor and elsewhere. Did get to Buffalo Mansions the house that Scott and a few others lived in a few times too.Scott went on to do sound for a lot of bands around London throughout the late 80s and 90s. He died a couple of years ago so I don't know if the videotapes survive. Somebody edited some footage and stuck it up on youtube a few years ago anyway. Piece who had been the singer in the Fuckpigs who had been the band the Wild Dogs came out of though they had Razzle who went onto Hanoi Rocks on drums. Scott had played guitar at that point, the 2 swapped roles for the new band. Piece went on to play guitar with the Weather Prophets, Pete Astor's band. Not sure what he went onto after that, but he's now dead too. Several years prior to Scott.Did enjoy that band so would love a compi.
― Stevo, Friday, 26 January 2024 10:18 (eight months ago) link
picked this one up at lunchtime...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymoSK3eumb0Perfect Vision - This Hook (from 'Our Broken Crown', 1984)
band describe themselves as 'like depeche mode but with guitars', i'd never heard of them before but i quite like it. think they were from cambridge, uk
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 26 January 2024 18:44 (eight months ago) link
nice. they need the reissue treatment. a cassette-only debut album!
― scott seward, Friday, 26 January 2024 21:05 (eight months ago) link
kinda wonder why they didn't get scooped up by a label during the new romantic gold rush. they coulda been contenders.
― scott seward, Friday, 26 January 2024 21:07 (eight months ago) link
listening to this norwegian label comp from 1984 and the vibe is soooooo cool. frosty even. but just the way the tracks are sequenced/chosen makes this such a great vinyl LP experience. and it sounds great too. some of the stuff was licensed from elsewhere (like eyeless in gaza, etc). but its definitely an all killer no filler label sampler. and it ends with Popol Vuh! there is a copy for 6 bucks on discogs so its not like anyone is really looking for it. but its one of the best things i've heard in weeks.
https://i.discogs.com/5RgPmURXrySUzgdIbIrF9HD0vlOju1TbmY4FvDc_XNc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMTUx/OC0xNjEwMDIwMzQ2/LTg5OTUuanBlZw.jpeg
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:45 (eight months ago) link
my fave song on the comp. so beautiful. someone should cover it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktaEY9BOgyo
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:46 (eight months ago) link
and THIS. new favorite song much? you could do a great doom metal version of this song. that chorus is made for heavy guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5V3f4wETc
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:50 (eight months ago) link
meanwhile, De Press were already on their 3rd album by the time they made that song. i wouldn't mind having a 1980-1983 CD comp.
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:54 (eight months ago) link