Public Image Ltd. - Public Image (1978)
Following the breakup of the Sex Pistols after their US tour in early in 1978 and subsequently the corporate demise of the punk scene in general, front-man Johnny Rotten/John Lydon returned to England determined to create something that was explicitly neither punk nor rock. Working with first-time bassist Jah Wobble, ex-Clash guitarist Keith Levene, and Canadian drummer Jim Walker, Public Image Limited produced an album that represented the punk sound after it had shot itself in the head.
PiL debuted in October 1978 with “Public Image”, a song widely seen as an attack on Malcolm McLaren and his perceived manipulation of Lydon during his career with the Sex Pistols.
the wrens :: everyone choses sides
ever since the wrens twittered that june may be a possible release date for a new album i have been spending a lot of time listening to the meadowlands
The Band In Heaven
Moving on from our previous Eno-centric post, here’s an amazing show by Talking Heads in the summer of 1979 at Boston’s Berkelee School of Music. Eno, of course, doesn’t appear with the band, but they were certainly steeped in Eno-dom at the time, touring behind Fear of Music and gearing up to record Remain In Light. The Heads were peaking as a live act at this point, sounding pretty much — contrary to “Life During Wartime“‘s chorus — like one of the greatest party bands of all time. At the beginning, the announcer asks “Are you ready to DANCE?!” One can imagine that the crowd did indeed dance, given the twitchy, tight and brilliant art funk that is played subsequently. As good as the band is, however, the real selling point here is the incredible performance by David Byrne, who sounds positively intense throughout. On Fear of Music, he created a paranoid, scary narrative voice with the help of endless vocal overdubs and studio wizardry. In a live setting, it’s just him — and he rises to the occasion. Byrne opens up and lets it rip — howling, crooning, barking and yelping. It’s something else. This was the last time the Heads toured as a four-piece, drafting other musicians on future jaunts. They went out on a high note, as this recording shows.
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(oh and hey this is the 100th post on Doom & Gloom! yayyyy)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Nobody Here
hey if anybody can help me get my hands on Memory Vague it would be well appreciated and possibly paypal-rewarded. just the tunes even.
Seattle Alive at Sunset (via Surrealize)
One day this winter, there will be a brisk day that looks like this. It’s worth the normal winter slog for a day like this. Yeah, I’m not moving from this place like ever.
Supercollider, the minimalist Los Angeles ‘rock’ duo from the early 90s, would be the top of my list of bands to reissue if I were given a 16-ton weight of dough from the sky to start a music label. Both their albums Supercollider (1991) and Dual (1993), both released on Emigre Records, are testaments to metronomic ambient gloom in the vein of bands like Durutti Column, This Kind Of Punishment, and 154-era Wire. I’ve included the track “Seized” from Dual. This style is the direction toward which many bands are still striving. “Post rock” or “post punk” don’t really mean anything anymore. This is Part 1 in a small series I’ll call “Loss Angeles” for now.
