Category Archives: NWOBJP

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Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 2]

Posted on May 31, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The high melodrama of “She Gets Out The Scrapbook” was a tour de force of songwriting and lyric, that gave us a glimpse of High Pulp years before the band themselves were capable of rising to … Continue reading →

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Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 1]

Posted on May 30, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Furniture: The Wrong People – UK – CD [2010] There are occasions where a reader of PPM might inquire as to whether I’ve heard a particular album and being only human, there are a lot of stimuli that manage to … Continue reading →

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Want List: Carmel’s “Wild Country” Album Her First Original Studio Album In 27 Years…And Nobody Told Me!

Posted on June 21, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Things have been very quiet on the Carmel front since her 2015 single “Sad Situation” b/w “Second Wife Blues.” It was a Bandcamp release that I still haven’t yet purchased from the 3-mile want list, but for reasons unknown, I … Continue reading →

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Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 3]

Posted on November 18, 2021 by postpunkmonk

The Blow Monkeys Limping For A Generation 1984 3.5 The first Blow Monkeys album arrived over two years following that debut indie single. Changes had occurred in the band with original drummer Angus Hines being replaced with Tony Kiley by … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Antena – Camino Del Sol BENELUX CD

Posted on September 3, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Antena: Camino Del Sol – BEN – CD  [1989] The Boy From Ipanema Camino Del Sol To Climb The Cliff Silly Things Sissexa Achilles Bye Bye Papaye Noelle A Hawai Les Demoiselles De Rochefort Spiral Staircase Unable It was some … Continue reading →

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Song Of The Day: The Blow Monkeys – Atomic Lullaby

Posted on February 28, 2018 by postpunkmonk

Today I have this early single by The Blow Monkeys coursing through my circuits. The last few Saturdays have seen me drawn to the middle period house phase of the band where they were the only British New Wave band … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Carmel – The Drum Is Everything [part 2]

Posted on August 12, 2015 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Side one of the album winds down with a real anomaly. “The Prayer” was another of the six and a half minute tracks that anchored the album, but while “More, More, More” and “Bad Day” were the … Continue reading →

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