Dry the Rain
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections, and I stan for Obama.
stats: boston-based radical nerd in my 30s
yes, I am a grown-ass lady believe it or not
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
Other tags of interest - Places I Wish I Was Right Now, GPOY, owls, you are cordially invited to my pants, this has been a post, OH MY GOD, Favorite of all the things, Maru is the best cat in the whole world
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Holy shit I'm graduating tomorrow
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CRUEL IRONY IN DAO
Cannot purchase backpack: Inventory full.
I don’t think I have a gif that expresses how...
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Why I hate it when other white people say the phrase: "I'm not racist"
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(via postpunkposters)
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shot by both sides -magazine
Shot by both sides
on the run to the outside of everything
shot by both sides
they must have come to a secret understanding
Beatles Cover Day
this is criminally underrated post-punk band The Feelies doing Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
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Dance - ESG
rubyvroom Said:
Unfortunately they stayed pretty obscure, especially in America. I don’t really know why. “Thursday’s Child” should really have been played on the 80s radio right alongside stuff like the Psychedelic Furs and The Cure. All I can think is that there were so many bands mining the same territory that a lot of really good post-punk bands got sort of lost in the shuffle.
I like SO MUCH music from the 80s that I can’t even get started on listing it all.. but I can think of some other post-punk bands that I think were also unjustly forgotten:
- The Feelies
- A Certain Ratio
- The Au Pairs
- Josef K
- I’m also pretty fond of the strain of funkier post-punks like ESG and Pylon and Maximum Joy and Liquid Liquid and Bush Tetras (just for fun cue up “Cavern” by Liquid Liquid on YouTube - you’ll get the baseline for a very famous early hiphop track…)
That’s in addition to the (relatively) more successful postpunk artists like Magazine and Pere Ubu and Gang of Four and Wire which are all some of my favorites. I also love a lot of New Wave and other genres..
Flight by A Certain Ratio
Overshadowed by Factory records contemporaries like Joy Division, A Certain Ratio was really good in its own right. All of Early is quality post-punk.
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can I have a taste of your ice cream?
can I lick the crumbs from your table?
can I interfere in your crisis?
no, mind your own business
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The Cure - Let’s Go To Bed
Bush Tetras- Can’t Be Funky
OKAY I LIED. One more song. It just goes well with “Searching for a Feeling”
All right, last bit of post-punk spam. I started with The Pop Group, so I’ll end with this spinoff band.
Maximum Joy - “Searching for a Feeling”
The Feelies?! Who the hell are these Weezer ripoffs?! I saw this at Sonic Boom record shop in downtown Toronto.
Turns out, this record came out almost 14 years prior to the Blue Album.
I’m wondering if Weezer’s photographer for Blue was all like:
“You know what guys?! I’m feelin’ a feelies!”
