On the topic of post-punk, I am happy about the revival to get all these great reissues, but the contemporary acts are really boring. What happened to politics and experimentation? There are a couple things worth listening to, but they're primarily from a couple years ago and were generally released on Dischord (Black Eyes and Q and not U's last release.) It's all boring songs about going to the disco and no free jazz.
robert wood
> --- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a big weak spot for Bauhaus, too. Through the
>> wonders of Soulseek I uncovered some demos of theirs
>> from '78 or '79, when they were still called Bauhaus
>> 1919, that are just shit-hot guitar-driven stuff,
>> incl. a couple of unreleased songs. They should
>> officially release the material. All the earliest
>> post-punk stuff you mentioned is very good -- The
>> Cure's "Heroin Face."
>>
>
> I love Three Imaginary Boys. The Pornography-era Cure
> stuff is just too unremittingly black for me. It is
> lugubrious to the point of being funny. I think The
> Top is a great album though.
>
> Through the wonders of the budget Moscow street kiosk
> I managed to get all the Cure's main albums in mp3
> format, plus something like 6 Sex Pistols releases and
> releases with all the PiL stuff up through 1992 with
> the exception of Metral Box, for all of 15 bucks. I'm
> happy as a 1977 punk gobbed on by Johnny Rotten. :)
>
> I really wish Bauhaus had covered the Velvet
> Underground. Can you imagine what they would do with
> Sister Ray?
>
>
>
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