![]() Best use of saxophone and best song title goes to the best track, “Into You Like a Train”. Truthfully there’s a lot going on in these songs so I’m not sure if I’m totally absorbing them yet (I think the excessiveness of the instrumentation makes them an “80s band” as much as anything else). Hey, any of y’all heard this “Pretty in Pink” song? Pretty good, eh? Okay, okay-this one reminds me of the Echo & the Bunnymen album in that it’s another “big”-sounding post-punk album, but this one sounds a little better to me initially because it feels a little less one-note and more…fun. It’s growing on me a little already.Īpril 27th: The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk (Columbia) Sixteen songs that roughly point the way to where UK indie pop would go in the next few years, plenty of immediate tunes (“In Love”, “Honey”, “Flying Over Russia”) but as a whole this one takes a bit. Compared to their other album, Lazy Ways (which I’ve heard), it’s even more rudimentary/simple/whatever, with the barest of instrumentation accompanying the vocals. Things are pretty different with Marine Girls’ minimalist indie pop sound, and Beach Party is especially stark. There’s a new Everything But the Girl album, but today I’m going way back to the first album from Tracey Thorn’s FIRST band. This album is almost fifty minute for some reason, and probably shouldn’t be-the second half’s clearly weaker but there’s also not an obvious “cut” song.Īpril 26th: Marine Girls – Beach Party (Whaam!) Plenty of great power pop songs here (“In Quintessence”, “Piccadilly”, “Heaven”), although like most of the best bands of that genre they’re not “just” that. I think they’re sort of in the purgatory of being too big to be a hip “underground” band for alt-kids to be into but not big enough that they made it to the next generation in a more mainstream capacity. Squeeze! It took me a while to get to them but I’ve come to appreciate them lately. It actually feels ahead of its time in how it combines all of this together in an accessible way-there are a lot of bands who are trying to sound like this (albeit with more layers/more shoegaze influence generally).Īpril 25th: Squeeze – East Side Story (A&M) It’s loosely post-punk, sure-I see the traces of it-but these tracks are very airy dream pop and ambient-inspired indie rock songs. I checked out LC to fill in this gap, and what I got was definitely not what I expected. The Durutti Column were an OG Factory Records band and one of the few post-punk “Names” I know very little about. So, without any more ramblings from me, let us dive deeply into music from over four decades ago.Īpril 24th: The Durutti Column – LC (Factory) There are plenty of great albums from 1981 ( Solid Gold, Stands for Decibels, Re*ac*tor, Black Snake Diamond Role, Youth of America, Odyshape, and at least a dozen more) I already know and love and thus do not appear here.īandcamp embeds are provided when available, but most of these albums aren’t on there, so I’ve created a playlist ( Spotify, Tidal) of a song from each one of these records (Parts 1 and 2 are combined into the same playlist) you can use to listen along if you’re so inclined. Keep in mind, these records are all ones that I’d never listened to in full before. I covered sixty albums in total the first thirty appeared in the first blog post, and here below are the second thirty. It’s not too hard to explain, though: over the past couple of months, I’d listen to one new-to-me album from the year 1981 (first one every day, later reduced to every other day), write a couple sentences about my thoughts on it, and post it in the Rosy Overdrive Discord channel. Welcome! This is Part 2 to a post that went up last month, so I’d recommend checking that one out for context if you haven’t already.
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