Bands in the "Europe" chapter of the 1980 new wave guide I just bought for $2 off a seemingly homeless guy set up on the sidewalk of St Marks

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I think "Europe" means "Not Great Britain" in this case...

herman brood's wild romance
new adventures
plastic bertrand
nina hagen
elton motello
kleenex
stinky toys
young love
the meteors
plan*
einstein
kayak

* - that's "der plan" to you and me, I think.

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

elton was a brit but we didn't want him so he had to go to belgium.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Kayak - bad Dutch prog, headed towards new wave during that era I think.

I've never even heard of New Adventures, Elton Motello, Young Love or The Meteors (unless they're referring to the UK psychobilly bband which is v. unlikely).

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Who were Einstein?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

elton motello wrote 'ca plane pour moi'.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

no, he wrote "jet boy jet girl," which merely sounded exactly like "ca plane pour moi," which plastic bertrand wrote (though some reference works claim otherwise).

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

in fact, at least one reference work claims they were the same person!

i never heard of einstein, stinky toys, young love, or kayak before myself.

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

i think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that (isn't there a thread on this?) motello's band plays on the plastic bertrand version.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

OR the meteors, for that matter. (the book places them in holland, einstein in germany, stinky toys in france, young love in holland, and kayak in holland as matt says above. young love are three girls, stinky toys are a girl and three boys it looks like. meteors and einstein both look like a bunch of boys, but it's hard to tell. einstein look like a whole bunch of amps and keyboards, with no people, judging from their photo! there is no text on these bands.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

wait, so did motello's band play on bertrand's entire first LP? (actually, i guess it's possible he wrote the words to both versions. possible that bertrand did too, for all I know. which one actually came out first, though? i remember talking about the songs on ILM before, but I never saw a specific thread on them, i don't think.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

No text? What kind of guide is that?!

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Stinky Toys get slammed by Ira Robbins in the Trouser Press guide: "Uninspired sub-Rolling Stones rock'n'boogie with terrible vocals."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

well, there is text for a handful of bands in every chapter, and then photos at the end for bands the authors consider less important, I guess.

― xhuxk, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i think motello's version came out first and bertrand gets the credit on his own version for writing the french lyric. i think his band maybe only play on 'ca plane...' and 'pogo pogo'. if i find my (terrible) bertrand lp, i'll have a look.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

stinky toys played the 100 club punk festival and supposedly nearly got beaten up by sid vicious for being french.

― deaf leopard (haitch), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I could've sworn Bertrand's came out first...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Explain the relationship between... Elton Motello / "Jet Boy Jet Girl" and Plastic Bertrand "Ca Plane Pour Moi".

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

I have piece on Nina Hagen's awesome "nunsexmunkrock" that wasn't used in our last issue that will be posted on the web wheni get the revision...(and ill send it yr way chuck)...i only heard it once..but, its something.

heres the cover, for now.

http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/pics/lj/1982_nunsexmonkrock_cover.jpg

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

heres a chunk of that piece's intro:

His subject that week: devil-music; cue the creepy-cricket warbles on the soundtrack and slow-dissolve to the familiar image of crucified Christ (modified into a giant cacodaemon’s makeshift slingshot) and the end effect was such that dear viewers might find themselves outright titillated at being allowed by the father to taste the forbidden; “purse your lips but disavow,” etc. Myself, I hated God, so for me this was supple porno – more visuals followed, then four words on-screeen smashed together in voodoo-amorous scrawl; read like a mantra it went like this: “NUNSEXMONKROCK.” Below the phrase (proclamation, directive) lay the image associated somehow with the NUNSEXMONKROCK musico-mantric profanation: a dark-eyed woman as dope-assured Mother Mary, but Egyptianized, Rastafarized, peeled off a votive of trashy Mexican kitsch.

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

young love in holland

don't appear to have an entry in the dutch pop & rock institute encyclopedia, kayak and the meteors do. and herman brood as well of course. he was holland's biggest rockstar (or: most famous junkie). was married to nina hagen at some point actually, but mostly as a publicity-stunt...

― (jg) ((jg)), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

From what I've found out via the New Wave Outpost site, which has featured The Meteors's "It's You, Only You" and "Stormy Seas", what I've found out about The Meteors is that they were a "Dutch New Wave band that released three albums in the early '80s" before they faded into obscuriy. "It's You, Only You" was actually the same song that Lene Lovich performed -- her version is a cover of The Meteors's. Their third and last album was also titled Stormy Seas and was from 1982. Actually, "Stormy Seas" is my favorite of the two. It's insanely catchy and kinda mellow at the same time.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Oops. Totally neglected that last post. Anyway. That site says that The Meteors were a band that performed "a futuristic sort of 'art' rock which [was] influenced by Roxy Music and David Bowie", which actually sounds dead-on accurate when it comes to "Stormy Seas" and maybe not so re: "It's You, Only You". That song sounds more herky-jerky than that.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

finally finished...so, as promised (im about to fix the section heading)

http://repellentzine.typepad.com/repellentzine/2005/12/reppentsounds_f.html#more

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

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