Dogday Genre: Post punk / Dub / Thrash From: "Stockholm, Sweden A few weeks ago I received a vinyl EP from Swedish post punkers Dogday (not to be confused by the completely different though identically titled Canadian popsters Dog Day [...]
from the Real Genuis soundtrack: the Comsat Angels - I'm Falling
I was taking Adeline , our beagle-boxer, out for a walk this morning when I lost my footing on the slope out behind the house. I hit the ground hard, knocking the wind right out of me and wrenching every muscle in my back, shoulders, and chest. I don't think any severe damage was done, but I have been reduced to shambling around the house like a hunchbacked Frankenstein's monster and I feel a dull ache in my ribs each time a take a breath. Maura (a.k.a. Little Miss Sunshine) tells me that it will feel even worse tomorrow. [...]
This week's mixtape starts off with a classic that I've been searching a long time for, from the Comsat Angels...hope you dig it as much as I have throughout the years. And special thanks to BC for tracking it down for me... Will You Stay Tonight - The Comsat Angels Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine No Need To Cry - Neko Case [...]
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." Audrey Hepburn Alas, it seems that the enemy of affection is the schedule, the chore, the duty. Le sigh. Do feel free to set a spell. I'm here... Comsat Angels - Will You Stay Tonight? (out of print, but you can find the vinyl on eBay )
Animal Collective - "Fireworks" Oh, and... Comsat Angels - "Independence Day" ( previous, info-filed post on this ) ...more Neon Lights stuff to come. Today even. Got a second now? Enter the contest ...
Awhile ago my roommate and I were discussing Real Genius , one of my favorite light-hearted comedies. For one reason or another - we must've either been discussing Val Kilmer or popcorn - I was telling her about the ending. Shocked that she had missed out on this movie, I added it to Netflix and forced her to watch it. While watching it, we discovered that this movie has a really fantastic '80s soundtrack. A lot of the music is distinctively '80s, but unlike a lot of music from then, hasn't aged badly. Since the film doesn't have an [...]
Yes, Dearest Friends, that is me you see to the left, whoring myself unashamedly. I have become a brazen strumpet, standing on the corner of Independence Avenue and Groovy Musique Street, offering myself up to all who will pay. But it is for a good cause. Scratch that, it is for (as they say frequently here in North America) an awesome cause. You see, the most excellent DJ Colleen Crumbcake , curatrix of the wonderful Sandy Acres Sound Lab on East Village Radio , needs to raise sufficient funds by month-end to [...]
Why am I starting out the new year by posting something from last year? Well, I've gotten so many requests to repost these tracks that I figured I'd give you kids what you've been asking for. Actually, I just might run through some of my other old posts and see which ones people were saddest/angriest that I took down and put those back up, too. We'll see how I'm feeling. I have a real weakness for 80s movies and one of my favorites is [...]
As you can probably tell , we're a wee bit obsessed with the British post-punk movement of the '80s. But it's hard to blame us, especially when you consider that the U.K. was popping out a great new guitar band every two days during that period. This week's object of desire is the Comsat Angels, a Sheffield outfit that released three stellar albums ( Waiting For A Miracle , Sleep No More , and Fiction ) between 1981 and 1983, and yet barely got a foothold in America. Thankfully, much of the band's back catalog [...]
The theme for today is “eyesâ€. Ojos. Limpid pools. Vile jelly. My wife went in for a minor procedure on one of her eyelids yesterday that turned out to be far more complicated than advertised. She’s okay now, though sans peripheral vision for the next few days, but the experience-by-proxy has left its mark. Comsat Angels â€" Eye of the Lens (from a 1981 single, collected on the reissue of Sleep No More , 2006) - Paranoiac post-punk that might sound formulaic to some, but it’s a formula that works [...]
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