Category Archives: Deadpan Women

Want List: Model Citizens Comprehensive Reissue Coming To LP + CD

Posted on March 6, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Not long ago we were discussing the comprehensive reissue program that the label Modern Harmonic had lavished on NYC band The Dance, when the lead singer, Eugenie Diserio, left a welcome comment stating that the precursor band she sang in … Continue reading →

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Superproducer Trevor Horn Recounts “Adventures In Modern Recording” In His Autobiography

Posted on January 5, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I’m not sure that I ever mentioned this one here, but this might have been a case where my wife saw the book was out and ordered it for the library where she works. Due to a shipping snafu, she … Continue reading →

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Record Review: xPropaganda’s “The Heart Is Strange” Charms The Savage Breast UK BR [pt 2]

Posted on September 8, 2022 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The pre-release single from the album was the other pure pop number here. The delightfully defiant “Don’t [You Mess With Me].” Right there as the lead song on side two, if you’re of an LP persuasion. … Continue reading →

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Record Review: xPropaganda’s “The Heart Is Strange” Charms The Savage Breast UK BR [pt 1]

Posted on September 7, 2022 by postpunkmonk

It’s been tricky listening to this album even though I’ve had the Blu-Ray disc for over three months! Many of those weeks saw all of the music and things to play it on out of our home and in storage. … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Propaganda – “Wishful Thinking” UK DLX RM CD [part 2]

Posted on August 3, 2022 by postpunkmonk

My entrée to the world of Propaganda had been their 12″ single of “Duel;” one of the most vivid examples of the Hegelian dialectic between the Apollonian and the Dionysian rendered into song. The same song as performed and arranged … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Propaganda – “Wishful Thinking” UK DLX RM CD [part 1]

Posted on August 2, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Propaganda: Wishful Thinking DLX RM – UK – CD [2012] Abuse 3:30 Machined 6:54 Laughed! 8:54 Loving 0:47 Jewelled 7:44 Loved 6:43 Abuse 4:18 Thought 2:38 Strength To Dream (Outtake 04.02.84) 2:29 p:Machinery (The Beta Wraparound) 10:47 The Murder Of … Continue reading →

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REDUX: Record Review: November Group

Posted on July 25, 2022 by postpunkmonk

January 7, 2016 November Group: November Group US EP [1982] Shake It Off Flatland Pictures Of The Homeland We Dance The popular Front How I remember mail order ads for this EP in the back pages of Trouser Press back … Continue reading →

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