Cos I like it…and it is different. The Exploited’s ‘Dead Cities’ was not the only ‘punk’ single to hit the charts in 1981!
Info on the release here
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chris
March 10, 2008 at 11:54 amanyone who has read Dennis Neilsen’s biog “killing For Company” will have some nice mental images to accompany this song 😉
Jim
March 10, 2008 at 1:56 pmchris, that book terrified me for years …
Nic
March 10, 2008 at 2:43 pmFor some reason, I read Chris’ initial post as ‘Dennis Nielsen’s BLOG’…
I was wondering what he’d have up for download…
Great record though: apparently its success was thanks (yet again) to John Peel who played it and generated a lot of orders from the UK for it…
Her early performance work is an interesting blend of body-based actions and sound works…and she performed at the Nova Convention…
Jim
March 10, 2008 at 4:16 pm‘body based actions and sound works’…Kate Bush dance or Liz Frazer’s
percussion suit? where live she would hit parts of the body for different
sound effects/percussion……How anal am I?
John Serpico
November 25, 2012 at 1:47 amI imagine by now it’s been well discussed but it really is quite odd how this song can so very effectively be translated as a premonition of 9/11, not only with the words – “Here come the planes, they’re American planes” – and so on but with the strange, sudden stopping of time that the music suggests, like being trapped in a moment. Like the footage of the planes flying into the World Trade Center towers that was at one time played over and over and over again on the news. Everyone knows this song (or they should) but take another listen with 9/11 in mind and it’s really quite weird.