Art Punk Redux

 

Of all the posts that have shown up on the proliferous Cargo Culte  blog, the one I have gone back to quite often is I Hate Art, Can’t Stand It, which provides a nice companion soundtrack to Simon Reynolds’ book Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. With the permission of the Demagogues of the Cargo Culte, I have compiled 15 more hits from Art Punk’s formative years. Some of the bands are mentioned in Reynolds’ book; others are not. While you are listening to the tunes, you may also want to check out a recent addition to the 33 1/3 series, Wire’s Pink Flag, Wilson Neate’s in-depth research into that seminal album. I did not put anything from Pink Flag on the list, but I did include a couple of Wire-related projects.

No More/Suicide Commando

The Red Krayola/Born in Flames

Rejects/Vision Smashed

D.A.F./Nacht Arbeit

Girls at Our Best/Getting Nowhere Fast

The Prats/Disco Pope

Glaxo Babies/Maximum Sexual Joy

Swell Maps/The Helicopter Spies

Rema-Rema/Rema Rema

Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst/Women of the World

Dome/Jasz

Colin Newman/I’ve Waited Ages

Ruth/Mon Pote

Tampax/U.F.O. Dictator

Roxy Music/Editions of You

 

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She was my dark haired Lydia

Of my suburban German dreams

And he was the boy-boy-boy called James

And it will all end up like the New York scene

Too much drugs, too much pills

And too much-too much-too much songs

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

King Kong was a murderer

But it-but it-but it was me

I can’t stand the scene at all-the scene at all-the scene at all

You are hip and you are down

You are hip and you are down

Find a city, find a room

And find a-find a-find a drug

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

She was my dark haired Lydia

Of my suburban German dreams

And he was the boy-boy-boy called James

And it will all end up like the New York scene

Too much drugs, too much pills

And too much-too much-too much lies

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

Suicide commando suicide is suicide is suicide

Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide

Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide Sui-cide

Artist: No More

Song: Suicide Commando

Release Date: 1981

 

Contributed by Babyhuey