Category Archives: Deadpan Women

Female New Wave singers with unemotional delivery. I love ’em enough to categorize them!

Record Review: The Waitresses – “King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents” US CD

Posted on July 16, 2021 by postpunkmonk

The Waitresses: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents – US – CD – [1997] Intro Quit No Guilt Wise Up I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts I Know What Boys Like Pussy Strut Wasn’t Tomorrow … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Grace Jones – “Nightclubbing” US CD [part 2]

Posted on June 8, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Track three was the deepest dive into the reggae bucket that the Compass Point All Stars band made their usual living in. The harsh, angular stabs of white noise synthetic percussion delivering a THWACK every bar … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Grace Jones – “Nightclubbing” US CD [part 1]

Posted on June 7, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Grace Jones: Nightclubbing – US – CD [1987] Walking In The Rain Pull Up To The Bumper Use Me Nightclubbing Art Groupie I’ve Seen That Face Before [Libertango] Feel Up Demolition Man I’ve Done It Again As amazing as it … Continue reading →

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Hard To Believe That There’s A Universe Where The First B-52’s Album Hadn’t Always Existed! [part 2]

Posted on April 30, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] “Lava” was a fantastic deep cut with all three vocalists trading lines off of each other, while the only organ line in the song was the monophonic rhythmic pulse at various points in the song. I … Continue reading →

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Fashiøn “Fabrique De Luxe” Ultrabox Hits The Streets [part 1]

Posted on March 15, 2021 by postpunkmonk

We’ve been hearing about this for a few years now. The epochal second album by Birmingham’s Fashiøn from 1982, “Fabrique” had been a bolt from the blue that took the high tech production acumen of Zeus B. Held [famed for … Continue reading →

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Want List: The Jyl Album Is Now Available For Less Than Three Figures In A New Pressing

Posted on February 16, 2021 by postpunkmonk

It was over four years ago when somewhere, somehow [and I can’t remember] I became aware of the “Jyl” album as issued in the UK and Germany in 1984. I had never heard of it at the time, and now … Continue reading →

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Want List: Fashiøn – “Fabrique Deluxe” Ultrabox Coming…Finally!

Posted on December 2, 2020 by postpunkmonk

I’ve watched from afar the slow, stately process of vocalist Dave Harris and Zeus B. Held compiling and remastering all of the tracks surrounding the 1982 “Fabrique” album from Fashiøn. Word has bubbled under in the Fashiøn fan community for … Continue reading →

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