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Exactly when did The Pop Group split up? I’ve read 1980, 1981 and 1982. I’m pretty sure it was 1981. 1982 seems a bit late, post Pop Group happenings were going on by then, and since I’ve read of gigs by the band throughout the year 1981, I’ll assume they certainly hadn’t split by 1980.<\/p>\n
All that said, their last effort, their We Are Time<\/em> LP, from 1980, is considered a posthumous effort and is indeed a grab-bag effort of assorted demo songs and live tracks. Whilst such a description may lend the assumption of unwanted-dogthrowaway material that isn’t worth the time of day, such is not the case here.<\/p>\nWe Are Time<\/em> features various live versions of songs from Y<\/em>, such as “Thief of Fire” and “We Are Time” – both of which sound excellent and powerful, especially the latter, which emphasises their most obvious Beefheart\/free jazz leanings with sax going mad – several never-released live tracks (“Genius or Lunatic,” “Spanish Inquisition”), and numerous previously unreleased studio efforts (“Kiss the Book”, “Sense of Purpose”, “Trap”, a different version of “Amnesty Report”, all of which are exceptional and worthy in their own right of being released as “official product”). Curiously, many of these tracks were recorded in 1978, though they sound vastly different to the sort of material that wound up on their debut LP. Musically, everything moves along in the same direction set by the For How Much Longer…<\/em> LP, a tight, angular unit steeped in punk, dub, free jazz, funk and Beefheart. Musically, such references have almost become a cliche in this day and age, as every band and their mother go on about their deep love for Miles Davis and Stockhausen and Lee Perry and whoever else, but context is the point here.<\/p>\nThe Pop Group were not following a well-trodden blueprint, they were helping to create it. Sure, there were contemporaries like The Fall and Pere Ubu who were mining similar territory, or obvious roots in their sound like the Last Poets, Ornette Coleman and Red Crayola, but it was their unique synthesis of these influences, coupled with their sense of naivety, commitment and passion that makes The Pop Group still stand out today. There were other exceptional bands of the day that combined radical politics with inventive music, whether it was done in a surreal manner like the Swell Maps or in an overt manner like the Minutemen, and brilliant as both of those bands may’ve been, there’s a certain undecipherable angle to The Pop Group’s work. Their lyrics, their sounds, are presented in riddles not merely for the sake of being “artistic.” Rather, they beg you to decode them. Their music is scorching, unrepeatable, timeless and essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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