$3.00 for two LPs worth of Wire, Modern Lovers, John Cale, Nico, Sex Pistols (live Winterland tapes), PiL...can you believe this came out on a major label? I'm not ashamed to admit that this album helped turn me toward obscurities. Anyone else?
― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I just bought a copy last week! Um, but i already liked all those people. who knows though, maybe it will turn me toward robin lane & the chartbusters and brian briggs more!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)
Well, y'know, it's not going to be nearly as mindblowing in '04 as it was in '81. I'd literally never heard PiL, Jonathan Richman or Nico before buying it.
Robin Lane is a little too singer/songwritery/trying to go new wave (I've only recently found out that she was down with Neil Young in the early '70s.). But she had a few good songs, "Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow" being one.
― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)
Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The U.S.A.; No Fun (live)
Urban Verbs: Subways; The Only One of You
Robin Lane and the Chartbusters: Don't Wait Till Tomorrow; Kathy Lee
Wire: Map Reference 41°N 93°W; I Should have Known Better
Marianne Faithfull: Working Class Hero; Broken English
John Cale: Temper
Gang of Four: Damaged Goods; Anthrax
Modern Lovers: I'm Straight; Government Center
Devo: Social Fools
Public Image Ltd: Public Image; Swan Lake
Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star; Clean, Clean
Pearl Harbour and the Explosions: You Got It (Release It); Busy Little B Side
Nico: My Only Child
Brian Briggs: Nervous Breakdown
― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
The Charbusters were more classic rock -- lead guitarists, gal with big voice. Memory fails a little but I think they went louder and heavier as the records progressed with an EP being the most crunching.
― George Smith, Thursday, 19 February 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)
I rudely dismissed the first Chartbusters album when it came out. Too conventional, I thought. But I bought the reissue last year, and now it sounds pretty good to me. In a conventional kind of way, of course.
― Not That Chuck, Thursday, 19 February 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Brian Briggs had two albums on Bearsville in the early 80's, but i've never heard them.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 19 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)