In The Trashcan
Records GEM074
"What's the final solution? Make no mistakes! Dance
the mystery dance and tell me later..."
See vols 5 and 11 for more info about this short-lived UK outfit. "She's expecting you" is a cool synth-pop tune from 1981 on Stiff Records.
Ska pop tune by The Equators, that has nothing to do with the 60s soul song. They were Desmond Dekker's backing band, formed in 1977 by Jamaican immigrants in Birmingham. This is 1981 release on Stiff Records.
Pre-Crapheads from Japan in a minimal synth wave mood. Even better is the flipside "Robot", which can be found on vol 47. Both songs also appear on their 1979 debut album "Welcome Plastics", issued by Invitation.
This is from the 1980 release on Rough Trade, but this song was already around in 1976, a year after the birth of this more than interesting band from Cleveland Ohio. Ex-Rocket From The Tomb proto-punk David Thomas aka Crocus Behemoth was the frontman and the soul of the band that is still alive.
Declan MacManus was born in Liverpool. Nobody could expect him to be one of the leading voices of the new sounds after punk's arrival in 1977. That year he released 7 singles, including "Watching the detectives". On the flipside Stiff Records put the short song "Mystery dance", one of his best and wildest songs.
Orange vinyl release on Stiff Records in 1979 as flipside to "One step beyond". Great, almost forgotten Two-Tone ska by these Prince Buster aficionados.
Synth dub wave from 1980 by Dan Treacy of Television Personalities fame. Not to be confused with Van Morrison's "Bright light big city". See also vol 4.
Second 45 by this UK outfit from 1985. Produced by Andy "XTC" Partridge. The ultra-fast hypnobeat rhythm works like a strobo, like a runaway train. Simply their best song ever.
Best Devo song ever? "Mongoloid"! Its flipside is also unbelievable. It's their anthem. It contains an instrumental part that reappears in Spizzenergi's "Where's Captain Kirk?" which was released two years later in 1979. This is 1977!
She was only 16 when she recorded this in 1979. A girlie teenieboppin' version of Shakin' Stevens, but her version of "Baby let's play house" ain't that bad after all. A Stiff Records release.
"Nag nag nag" was and still is their best known song. This was their follow-up single, also from 1979 on Rough Trade Records.
A Virgin Prunes spin-off, featuring Daniel Figgis aka Haa-Lacka Bintii. This is from their second 45 on Rough Trade in 1985. For lovers of Gavin Friday and of course Virgin Prunes.
Underground discotheque hit in Belgium from these Swiss electronic guys, formed by Carlos Peron, Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. Peron left prior to this release. It's from a double-7" on Stiff Records from 1983.
They had several singles on Stiff Records, including this fab "Rawhide" version from 1982. To be complete: it's a Cowpat Records release as well.
I first heard the Jesus And Mary Chain version and then I found out that the writer was Vic Godard and that he was the singer of Subway Sect, a new wave band formed in London,1976 after attending a SexPistols gig. He soon left the punk scene and turned towards jazz and singer-songwriter pop.
Recorded in 1975 but released in 1979 on Rough Trade. It's the first group of Nick Knox, the Cramps drummer. Proto-punk from Ohio, the US state that gave us the weirdest bands in the 70s. "Agitated" is perhaps the wildest Ohio song ever. This is the flipside.
