Fire Walk With Me
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
white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
my Dragon Age sideblog
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
-
confession: i only watched labyrinth once and the whole time i was thinking “MAN this would have been...
-
yeah, so, charli xcx covering i want it that way is probably the most important thing that will happen to me in 2013 that doesn’t...
-
-
A little break from the usual post, but this video where Filmmaker Matthew Clarke replaces his two-year-old daughter Coco with a...
-
“…Looking at my bookshelves, I am aware of another kind of forgetting—the spines look familiar; the names and titles bring to mind perhaps a character...”
rip it up and start again
I am on fire and it’s the rainy season
in this desert you made me createTonight’s backing music
Howard Devoto - Rainy Season (by dutylux)
He was in two great bands AND he had some decent solo tracks. Howard Devoto ladies and gentlemen.
(also, this video is so hilariously Early-MTV.)
Picture a female-fronted Gang of Four with even stronger baselines and a heavy gender relations theme and you have The Au Pairs, a criminally underrated Post-punk band from the early 80s.
Periodically I feel the need to remind the world that this band existed, and was amazing. Every serious fan of postpunk should own a copy of this album.
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
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.
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
