Tag Archives: 1981

Shriekback Progenitor Restaurant For Dogs Manifest On Silver Disc For A Brief Time If You Act Now

Posted on January 24, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Restaurant For Dogs was the resulting band following the US tour of The States with Barry Andrews as a member of Robert Fripp’s League Of Gentlemen. Being in America, Mr. Andrews decided to wallow deep, and while wallowing in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Record Review | Tagged 1980, 1981, 2023, Barry Andrews, Restaurant For Dogs, Shriekback | 3 Comments

Landscape Are Preparing Comprehensive Boxed Set Of God With “Landscape-A-Go-Go”

Posted on January 19, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last week I received an email from commenter Richard Anvil who managed to strike gold in his internet travels. We share many music obsessions and the great Technopop band Landscape was among them. He ran across a current Landscape website … Continue reading →

Posted in BSOG, New Romantic, Records I Used To Own, Want List | Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, Landscape, Richard James Burgess | 21 Comments

Cherry Red Issuing New Musik 4xCD Box With All Three Albums + More

Posted on December 28, 2022 by postpunkmonk

We’ve always got time for New Musik; Tony Mansfield’s enormously appealing Technopop project that happened at just the right time in the ’79-’82 period, where analog synths were jostling up against new digital technologies like sampling to give him a … Continue reading →

Posted in Want List | Tagged 1979, 1981, 1982, Cherry Red, New Musik, technopop, Tony Mansfield | 25 Comments

The Cramps Were Always A Virus No Amount Of Penicillin Could Tame As World Catches Up With “Goo Goo Muck” on “Wednesday”

Posted on December 21, 2022 by postpunkmonk

One of the amusing things about the incessant thirst of the ravening maw of the Entertainment Machine™ for new sources of mood and nuance is how every now and then, an arbitrary spark manages to catch a dusty old chestnut … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Immaterial Music, Uncategorized | Tagged 1981, 2022, The Cramps | 22 Comments

Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 2]

Posted on December 19, 2022 by postpunkmonk

The next album was the “Aerosol Burns” And Other Misdemeanours” collection. This was a collection of the ten A/B-sides from 1978 and 1981 not already accounted for on the first two LPs. “Aerosol Burns” was the debut, which felt like … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2022, Essential Logic, Lora Logic, Poly Styrene, Rough Trade | Leave a comment

Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 1]

Posted on December 15, 2022 by postpunkmonk

One of the fascinating players in the Post-Punk explosion was Lora Logic [a.k.a. Susan Murphy] who was moved to join X-Ray Spex as a teenager after seeing their want ad in the UK press. Like few female musicians of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, Essential Logic, Lora Logic, Polly Styrene, Rough Trade | 3 Comments

Another Ultravox Artifact From A Parallel Universe Fell Through A Wormhole Last Friday And It’s For Sale, But Not For Long

Posted on December 1, 2022 by postpunkmonk

We all know that “Rage In Eden” was [magnificently] produced by Conny Plank, who capped a three album arc of producing Ultravox with the climactic “Rage In Eden.” But nothing is black and white anymore in the 21st century. And … Continue reading →