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I could have sworn the first place I heard The Sound was on the TV or more accurately, on my phone as I watched episodes of downloaded TV on my way to work, don’t @ me) and I assumed that the show was Deadly Class – the one-season comic-book adaptation of an assassin’s school boasting […]
It bewildered me that this song was not an official single from Gang Of Four‘s 1979 debut Entertainment!, but according to this piece at 53rd and 3rd, the band refused to allow it to go to radio because it was too accessible. Which was a very Gang Of Four thing to do, and in the […]
Stepping back a bit from my John McGeoch worship-angle of discussing Siouxsie & The Banshees, music portal Louder has posted an extensive retrospective of the band’s career originally published in the January 2021 issue of Classic Rock magazine. I’ve recently been appreciating the other portions of their catalog, particularly the post-McGeoch records; John Carruthers and […]
Everyone loves a list! Discogs has assembled a somewhat predictable but well-annotated list of their desert island post-punk albums. Most I know well, some I mean to make better acquaintance of. All are worth at least a listen or two. And let’s not get into the omissions… 11 Essential Post-Punk and Revival Albums @ Discogs
NME premiered the new video from The Psychedelic Furs‘ 2020 album Made Of Rain yesterday. It kind of keeps with the slow rollout of everything around this record – 30 years in the making, release date delayed by three months, first video out seven months ago, but I guess that’s one of the perks of […]
Even if Boston’s Mission Of Burma had stayed defunct after their initial dissolution in 1983, their place in music history would have been assured. Hell, even if they didn’t release another record after their debut 1981 EP Signals, Calls and Marches, they’d be gods. Just the opening track alone… which is what we’re looking at […]
XTC spent so much of their career as a studio-only entity, it’s easy to forget they were once a formidable live outfit. But thanks to this oft-bootlegged live performance, we have a document of the band at the peak of their on-stage powers – which happened to be right before it all came crashing down. […]
This Cure classic from 1980 was the subject of one of my first posts, but it’s a track that merits further examination. To that end, here’s a ridiculously in-depth piece at Sound On Sound from December 2004 with Mike Hedges. It covers his history with the band – he engineered their first record Three Imaginary […]
It’s probably a sign of aging when one’s favourite song from Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 opus Ocean Rain transitions from the dramatic and brooding “Killing Moon” to the elegant and elegiac title track. I’m not saying I’m there now, but I’m not saying I’m not. There’s enough love in my heart for both tracks. […]
The first single from Cocteau Twins’ masterpiece Heaven Or Las Vegas, released August 27, 1990. Posted for no other reason than it is majestic, or as an excuse to share the fact that their website is very up to date and very thorough with archival material.
