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🦋 New Wave Nuggets

Nominations are open for cleek's 2011 Reader's Poll -- what are your favorite records of all time, as of 2011? I'm interested to see what records get nominated -- the readers there are a group of good, eclectic tastes.

I've been thinking about what records I should submit for a week or so, since cleek announced the poll... A nice state to be in since it means I have songs from my favorite records running through my head. What I came up with (some Dylan, some Robyn Hitchcock, some folk music...) will generally not be too surprising for anybody that knows the inside of my head like I do. I was a little surprised to find early on that it was important to include in the list a record that I have not listened to or thought about much in years, viz. I.R.S. Greatest Hits vols. 2 & 3 -- I spent a lot of time listening to this record in high school and college and, while I never was into the New Wave very much besides this record, it seems like it shaped my musical ear in some important ways.

So anyways, I'm listening to it right now for like I say, the first time in years, and the songs sure hold up. Recommended. (It was never released on CD; but if you search for it you'll find torrents that people have ripped from vinyl.) I'm putting the track listing and YouTube playlist below the fold -- Seriously every track is giving me the "great song" response, where as I listen to the first couple of bars I get an ecstatic wave of recognition and melt into the song. (Well I don't love "Uranium Rock" like I love every other song -- but it is not out of place either. Sort of interesting bit of punk rock rockabilly.)

Track listing:

1. Cold, Cold Shoes, The Fleshtones
2. Ain't That A Shame, Brian James
3. Baby Sign Here With Me, Henry Badowski
4. Action Time Vision, Alternative TV
5. Backtrack, Squeeze
6. Disgracing The Family Name, Skafish
7. Wait For The Blackout, The Damned
8. Thrills, Klark Kent
9. Straighten Out, The Stranglers
10. Urban Kids, Chelsea
11. Uranium Rock, The Cramps
12. I Live In The City, Humans
13. Fallout, The Police
14. Can't Keep Away, Tom Robinson/Sector 27
15. Memphis (Berry), John Cale
16. Mess Around (Ertegun), Jools Holland
17. Jukebox, Payola$
18. Rebellious Jukebox, The Fall
19. Computer Datin', Patrick D Martin
20. Only A Lad, Oingo Boingo
21. You Say You Don't Love Me, Buzzcocks
22. Office Girls, Klark Kent
23. Lips, Wazmo Nariz
24. Sodium Pentathol Negative, Fashion

posted afternoon of Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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wow. i think i know one of those. :)

posted afternoon of September 27th, 2011 by cleek

Which one, "Only a Lad"?

posted afternoon of September 27th, 2011 by Jeremy

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