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7" / The Bad
Form / "Bleeding Fool" & "No Dinner"
b-w ""Its Gonna Rain" & "Sell Yourself" /
Youth Attack! Records
"Great, noisy, sloppy punk. Sorta reminds of the late '70s/early
'80s when punk was gearing up for hardcore but wasn't quite there yet."
[read more] ---Peter
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CD / DAT Politics
/ Plugs Plus / Chicks On Speed Records
"Yes - there are many collaborators. Does the music have any continuity
with all these hands in the pie? With DAT Politics continuity is irrelevant.
The sound this trio make is not music in a conventional sense anyway.
Is it satisfying? Choosing a song and playing it alone - yes. Playing
the CD in a single listen - maybe not. It does not have much for you to
hold on to. There is little structure. It is the anti-electronica."
[read more] ---Carl
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2xCD / various / Do
The Pop! / Shock Records
"Do the Pop – a chronological 2 disc set- documents the cream
of the Australian punk/indie crop, spanning 10 years of the down under
scene from the late 70s to late 80s. The booklet has lots of essential
info about the bands and spinoffs."
[read more] ---Tina Glyptis
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CD / Generation
X / Valley Of The Dolls / Chrysalis UK
"In 1979 'power pop' started: Generation X's new sound was similar
to The Rich Kids, the band Glen Matlock started after being booted from
the Pistols. Stateside, The Mumps, The Speedies, The Dots, and The Boyfriends
mastered the new sound with excellent singles. Generation X were just
developing in the direction they were meant to go. In many ways 'Valley
of the Dolls' is similar to Dead Boys 'We Have Come For Your Children'
LP. Both records saw the bands getting way cleaner (commercial) in sound,
with great songs that held you in the new attention deficit world of punk."
[read more] ---Carl
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7" / Happy
Supply / "Theme Song" & "Grinning Song"
b-w "Ha Ha Ha" (Flipper cover) / Dutch Courage Records
"Cutesy boy-girl duo from Chicago plays nice pop ditties with cheap
rhythm box, keyboard and guitar."
[read more] ---Peter
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10" / Lydia
Lunch with the Anubian Lights / Champagne, Cocaine, and Nicotine
Stains / Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
"The Los Angeles beat/lounge/pop nouveau act Anubian Lights have
gotten Lydia Lunch to collaborate with them on a 5 song EP in the same
style as her 1980 'Queen of Siam' LP. The results are better than you
might expect. Three of the five songs are great. Lydia's voice is suitably
trashed. At times she has the rasp of Marianne Faithful or Nina Hagen,
while at other times she sounds pure vintage Lydia."
[read more] ---Carl
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