Last Dance at the Death Disco
Sep
06
2010 Comments

If you haven’t been listening to the live broadcast, you missed the best rendition of this song ever put to wax. Luckily, they made a video!

Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love?

#1 Buzzcocks - ‘Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)’

themusicnextdoor:

“I can’t see much of a future / Unless we find out what’s to blame / What a shame / And we won’t be together much longer / Unless we realize that we are the same”

Perhaps I am just being contrarian by putting this at #1, but it is my genuine feeling that no other ’70s punk single has the same combination of emotional resonance, catchy songwriting, and straightforward energy. Buzzcocks are a brilliant band, and this is the pinnacle of their achievements.

We’re in the middle of a short minimal wave/synth set tonight, and I’m currently playing ‘A Gift of Tears’ from the excellent Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol 1 compilation (I’m holding hope for volumes 2+)!
coldwaves:

Jeunesse d’Ivoire, Italy, 1983
Tell me about the song you have on the compilation, what were the ideas behind it? 
Danilo Carnevale (guitar, electronics): As far as I’m concerned, it was all quite spontaneous, we were very young (late teens, early twenties), and instinct played a major role on what we were doing at the time. Still, what we were after was a pristine, minimal and spacious sound where all the elements could have room to breathe. We were aiming at moving people at different levels - emotional, aural and intellectual - without being overwhelming. Then, I guess we were making the most out of what were our possibilties, technique was far from being our interest: this was were our punk/new wave roots were showing. In a way it was a development of that scene and we were trying to stretch it as far as possible.

Read the rest of the post on coldwaves.

We’re in the middle of a short minimal wave/synth set tonight, and I’m currently playing ‘A Gift of Tears’ from the excellent Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol 1 compilation (I’m holding hope for volumes 2+)!

coldwaves:

Jeunesse d’Ivoire, Italy, 1983

Tell me about the song you have on the compilation, what were the ideas behind it?

Danilo Carnevale (guitar, electronics): As far as I’m concerned, it was all quite spontaneous, we were very young (late teens, early twenties), and instinct played a major role on what we were doing at the time. Still, what we were after was a pristine, minimal and spacious sound where all the elements could have room to breathe. We were aiming at moving people at different levels - emotional, aural and intellectual - without being overwhelming. Then, I guess we were making the most out of what were our possibilties, technique was far from being our interest: this was were our punk/new wave roots were showing. In a way it was a development of that scene and we were trying to stretch it as far as possible.

Read the rest of the post on coldwaves.

POSTPUNK-POP-DISCO live at 10pm on WMBR Cambridge, 88.1 FM, and online…

Listen live online via wmbr.org (88.1FM in Boston & Cambridge, MA), tonight from 10PM to midnight, Eastern!

Choose yer speed: Lo / Med / Hi

Follow along with the live playlist via @deathdisco, Facebook, or MySpace

Tonight: Rik is obsessed with the time period 76-84. You’d think there wasn’t any music made before or after if you listened to him. Luckily, Danny is here to balance things out. We’re going back to basics tonight. Postpunk. ‘Pop’. Disco. After exploring life in the City two weeks ago and in the suburbs that passed itself as a ‘city’ last week, Rik’s going to explore what came out of the suburbs across the Atlantic, in the UK and France. Danny’s keeping it UK cosmopolitan with some new (to him) disco, Hi-NRG and synth-pop 12”s.

Featuring: Isolation Ward, Sudeten Creche, Ruth (from Rik); Kylie, Pulp, Magnetic Fields (from Dany)

Frankie Says you are only 1% a person.

C64 Longplay - Frankie Goes To Hollywood Part 1/2 (via DerSchmu)

Before you can reach the Pleasuredome you must become a full person. Complete yourself in all four attributes: sex, war, love, and religion. (more info)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the video game (C64, 1985)
via Retrospace

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the video game (C64, 1985)

via Retrospace

Sep
04
2010 Comments 1 note
2010-08-30 Hey Hey, Go-Go ♫
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] Plays: 10

Playlist 2010-08-30 Hey Hey, Go-Go ♫
Exploring the L.A. music scene, 76-82: Hell on Earth or Punk Paradise?

Rik and Danny wanted to do a real good L.A. Punk show. They really did. The Go-Go’s were punk once, and Rik and Danny wanted to really delve into the LA punk scene they came from and the other women of LA punk they played. But we really like pop music. So…. we compromised. But we think you’ll like what we came up with!

You can download this online (only available until the next playlist is posted).

Clicking on an Artist or Song will open a new window displaying all other times that Artist or Song has been played.

(Source: deathdisco.fm)

Sep
01
2010 Comments
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