“Precious as these ultra-rare primitive recordings are…the tracks can’t equal the berserk energy of how I remember The Screamers. I saw the band every time they played NY – Paul Roessler even crashed at my apartment on one trip – and they were an absolute revelation”
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“My current mood (and really always mood) is deep with the post punk, no wave, avant garde ladies. So for this Ewe I’m going to roll with Queen Nina Hagen and Born in XiaXia.”
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“I haven’t stopped listening to ‘Your Dream’ by Kim Jung Mi since I somehow discovered it through some sort of algorithmic blessing. I believe she was a bit of a psych-rock superstar in her home country Korea in the 70’s. That voice! To me ‘Your Dream’ embodies every element of the perfect song – it’s bittersweet, triumphant and above all, catchy as hell.”
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“Their vocal delivery is totally unbeatable in my eyes! The line “what’s it doing, what does it want?” about a big bird flying around above you is the best.”
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“I do tend to get totally fixated at times and myopically focused on a single track or artist. Over the last year its been Roxy Music, in a major way. Musically, visually….just so incredibly dynamic, surprising, rocking, beautiful and so very often in one track!”
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“Joan Jett is an absolute hero of mine. I don’t know if I want to be her or be her best friend. Maybe both. She writes these great, cool as fuck, pop songs! Yes they’re pop songs, and this is a great example of how similar punk and pop really are. I try to channel a lot of that in my own song writing.”
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“Listen to the Sirens” by Tubeway Army (which later became just Gary Numan) is top choice. This song!!!! It hits everything for me. It’s synth, it’s rock, it’s primal, it’s slick and rough. Total perfection of its era and the Eno, Roxy Music influences are so well carried on to a new place. It goes into my top 20 of all time ever for sure. It’s also extra cool that Gary Numan is top of the charts in Great Britain right now! Very glad that this music is still alive and loved.”
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“Robert Gorl is the whole reason we own both an original Korg MS20 and MS10, his work in DAF is amazing.”
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“It was the ungodly mix of fizzing punk guitars and 60’s scifi synthesizer that got me. There was also a real 1968/78 synergy, when Paris youth rioted in the streets, chucking paving stones at the Gendarmes echoing and actually influencing Malcolm McLaren’s punk theatre.”
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“I first heard this song in the early 70s when Fraser and Debolt’s first album showed up in a pile of promos I’d picked up at a used record store. Put it on the turntable this morning. It still holds up”
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“Well there’s Suicide, which I had the pleasure, if I can call it that, of witnessing live last year; Coil’s Scatology album whom a friend, the late great Matthew Stephens Scott, introduced me to years ago – but in keeping with the ‘what you listened to today’ rule, I’m gonna be honest and say Panorama from a Laibach record”
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“3 years before the official release, Westerberg’s vocals are 30 ft from the microphone but you still feel his intensity. Such a mother!”
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