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Chris Bond<p>Recorde <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 47 years ago:</p><p>The Mekons - Peel Session 1978</p><p>The complete session recorded by The Mekons on 7 March 1978 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 14th of that month.</p><p>Tracklist:</p><p>1. Dance And Drink The Mekons (0:16)<br>2. Dan Dare-Out of Space (It's A Really Nice Place) (3:05)<br>3. Garden Fence Of Sound (5:46)<br>4. Letter's In The Post (8:18)<br>2. Where Were You? (9:14)<br>4. Lonely And Wet (11:39)</p><p><a href="https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/07/mekons-peel-session-1978.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012</span><span class="invisible">/07/mekons-peel-session-1978.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMekons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMekons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeelSessions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeelSessions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostPunk</span></a></p>
KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot<p>🔊 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/KEXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KEXP</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Early" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Early</span></a></p><p>The Mekons:<br> 🎵 Hello Cruel World</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheMekons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMekons</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mekons.bandcamp.com/track/hello-cruel-world-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mekons.bandcamp.com/track/hell</span><span class="invisible">o-cruel-world-2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1AiF6sA9MUQ4ohbonZCWmg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/1AiF6sA</span><span class="invisible">9MUQ4ohbonZCWmg</span></a></p><p>🎶 show playlist 👇<br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6P</span><span class="invisible">DmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ</span></a></p><p>🎶 KEXP playlist 👇<br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNA</span><span class="invisible">LrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg</span></a></p>
dj zenn<p>1000 Day Album Challenge (#85) The Mekons: The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll (1989) [25.03.24]</p><p>destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late <br>the battles we fought were long and hard<br>just not to be consumed by rock n' roll <br>capitalismos, favorite boy child, we must apologize</p><p>Fear and Whiskey (1985) was my entry point into the Mekons world and if you say that is The Mekons best album I’m not gonna argue, but as time has passed, The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll, is the album that I’ve returned to most often. it is a truly great punk rock album.</p><p>I can do no better than the liner notes to the 2001 rerelease:</p><p>“The first cut, "Memphis, Egypt," which anyone not examining the package thinks of as "Rock 'n' Roll," confronts the beast and calls it a beast--"the Devil," to be precise, "Capitalismos, favourite boy child," his "foul breath" like "fine perfume." Was it really that parlous, that soul-consuming, that bad? Nah, but that's how it felt, and so Steve Goulding keeps pounding and Jon Langford keeps declaiming and the feedback keeps yowling till it swallows Tom Greenhalgh's recitation and everything else in its wake. Segue to Sally Timms reminiscing about a more literal prostitution in "Club Mekon," and then to Greenhalgh, who seems to give it up to the forces of evil with "Only Darkness Has the Power"--which is in fact the nakedest love song the Mekons ever recorded, one of the nakedest love songs anyone ever recorded, candid and vulnerable and romantic and doomed.<br>If I say the album never gets any better, don't be too hard on the Mekons, who we know have never made a fetish of consistency--those are three of their best tracks ever, yet Rock 'n' Roll is so strong it nearly matches them anyway. My nominations would be the closing "When Darkness Falls," a grim answer song to "Only Darkness Has the Power"; "Amnesia," where a slave ship "takes rock 'n' roll to America"; the nihilistically devil-may-care "Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet"; and the Greenhalgh-shouted live staple "Heaven and Back," left off the U.S. major-label debut by the arbiters of taste at A&amp;M but included on the Blast First version and this one. Lesser songs nip at the beast's heels in an exuberantly embittered celebration/critique of capitalism's big beat--cf. "Someone," where "the studio's empty but the beat goes on"; "Learning to Live on Your Own," with Timms throwing "rock 'n' roll songs on the fire" in her existential rue; and the failed liberation scenarios of "Cocaine Lil" (drugs) and "Empire of the Senseless" (culture). If the Mekons were going to serve the false god of rock 'n' roll, they were going to give him what for in the bargain." (<a href="https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cdrev/mekonsro-not.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">robertchristgau.com/xg/cdrev/m</span><span class="invisible">ekonsro-not.php</span></a>) <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/1000DayAlbumChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1000DayAlbumChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheMekons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMekons</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheMekonsRockNRoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMekonsRockNRoll</span></a></p>
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