Category Archives: Your Prog Roots Are Showing

Though Punk sought to wipe everything that came before from the map [with the best of intentions], Post-Punk wasn’t so rigid and thus some characteristics of Progressive Rock – Punk’s antithesis, thrived anew in the aftermath of Punk.

Rubellan Remasters Releasing Perfect Slow Children CDs, with Peter Baumann’s New Wave Disc As Well

Posted on May 10, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Do you remember all of that effort I spent making CDs of the first and second Slow Children albums in 2020? And finally writing about it last year? Well, I’m ready to toss those discs on the scrapheap of history. … Continue reading →

Posted in Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1981, 1982, DLX RM, Peter Baumann, Rubellan Remasters, Slow Children, Tangerine Dream | Leave a comment

The Night Of The Proms: Middlebrow Eurokitsch?…Or The Final Frontier Of Your Obsessive Collection?

Posted on April 28, 2022 by postpunkmonk

It was during the medium-high internet record collecting years around the turn of the century, that I became aware of a European phenomenon called “The Night Of The Proms.” This was begun in 1985 in Belgium by two students and … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Live Music, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Alphaville, Bryan Ferry, Grace Jones, Heaven 17, Joe Jackson, Kid Creole + The Coconuts, Martin Fry, Midge Ure, OMD, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears | 7 Comments

‘Fripp Goes New Wave’ “Exposures” Megabox Prepares To Stun Our Senses

Posted on March 10, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Robert Fripp: Exposures SDLX BSOG – UK – 25xCD, 3xDVD, 4xBR [2022] Commercial titles as originally released in red. New mixes in blue. Disc 1 Major Loops I Disc 2 Major Loops II Disc 3 Major Loops III … Continue reading →

Posted in Bowie, Core Collection, Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1979, 1980, 1981, 5.1, boxed set, Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson | 19 Comments

Record Review: Poeme Electronique – The Echo Fades GER CD

Posted on March 4, 2022 by postpunkmonk

The reason why I am the Post-Punk Monk is that, as I mentioned on the recent Billy MacKenzie thread, was that even when Post-Punk was all around me, and I was there trying to gulp it all down, you can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Buried Treasures, New Romantic, Record Review, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1982, 2010, Anna Logue Records, Dave Hewson, minimal synth, Poeme Electronique | 2 Comments

Collecting Lene Lovich Marginalia [part 2]

Posted on September 23, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] So yesterday, we were discussing all of the loose appearances of Lene Lovich from the point of her own fame moving forward. We left off at 1989 and things were actually going to heat up during … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Want List, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged Lemmy, Lene Lovich | 2 Comments

The Arcadia Project: Down The Black Lace Rabbit Hole [part 3]

Posted on July 2, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from this post] “Missing” was the only song of this project that existed in Simon LeBon’s notebooks prior to Nick Rhodes calling him up and telling him that he wasn’t going on a holiday for six months, but was … Continue reading →

Posted in Assorted Images, Core Collection, New Romantic, Record Review, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1985, 1990, Arcadia, Bryan Ferry, Duran Duran, Nick Rhodes, Simon LeBon | 8 Comments

The Arcadia Project: Down The Black Lace Rabbit Hole [part 2]

Posted on July 1, 2021 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Throughout it all one could hear Carlos Alomar’s rhythm guitar arcing an elegant line throughout the percussive mix. And it was a very percussive mix with not one but two, top flight percussionists throughout the album. … Continue reading →