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Every country in the world has its musical shit but there is something unique about Britshit. Really truly shaky musical propositions can get surprisingly far - onto music paper covers, TV youth shows, record deals, and even into the charts. This is a thread for the shit that could only have...

here's a good analysis of the techniques by Joe Carducci, who worked at SST and actually produced that Saint Vitus album if I recall right

There's heavy as in a set of musical techniques creating a feeling and heavy as thematics articulating that feeling. This one has both - the singer singing as the personification of Depression, taunting the listener

The Bug is another one. It feels very '90s to me. Ccru and that lot. But then there was "language is a virus", which was from Burroughs I think - and feels more like an '80s / Industrial Culture Handbook / RESearch magazine type concept.

Fake news dub, uh oh

ah but what's this? I hope this doesn't mean Mad Professor is a covidiot

people used to talk - in the nineties - about "the dub virus" but here's dub at war with the virus - meaning coronavirus

I saw PiL for the first time a month or so ago! It was surprisingly good! "Death Disco" seared, even without Wobble + Levene The how, why, and what here - http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2022/05/no-i-do-not-want-to-hear-new-stuff.html

Robert Fripp manifesto for Let The Power Fall - appeared on back cover but also on a postcard given away with the LP

I don't know if this sounds like a river exactly , but this Lee Perry production sounds like something natural and moist - the sea, rainfall

I think also along with the amusement or ironic enjoyment of the periodicity of something, there is also a poignancy, which gets more and more plangent as you become aware of the passing of time in your own life. Whether it's a record or an ancient clip of a performance, there's this energy...

I don't like garage punk for the quaintness - although I am aware of the quaintness, as I am with almost anything that isn't contemporary. I mean, jungle is quaint, at this point. So is 2step. Would you say that the primary pleasure in listening to Sly Stone or Al Green is the quaintness? Or a...

and of course you've got your equivalents now to the Nomads or Hoodoo Gurus or Barracudas or Hives - producers doing their it's-1992-FOREVER or it's-1994-FROZEN-FOR-ALL-TIME period precise recreations, like Phineus II for some reason I have slightly more time for the ardkore-retro thing than I...

Love the Rotters Club (although rereading those bits it's disconcerting how expository and on the nose it is - and the follow-up takes those tendencies much further, to its detriment) What's interesting about those excerpts is that Coe equates progressive rock with Labour (and the the post-WW2...

there's totally the same spirit animating it as ardkore and early jungle - frenzy, cutting loose, juvenile dementia, a DIY explosion. And some of the same broad sonic attributes: speed, rhythm, riffs, overloaded FX, smeared and distorted sounds, kids messing with technology (amplification and...

Helpfully - but really for my own convenience / enjoyment - I shoved nearly everything in this thread (excluding a few things too wimpy or too 1970s) into a YouTube playlist, so that's a bit more like Spotify

In a way, this is an extension of garage - in terms of guitar tone and simplicity - but it's got the slower boogie-ish swing of the end of '60s / start of '70s (a bit Canned Heat 'On the Road', a bit anticipating T.Rex and Mungo Jerry). There's some bubblegum in there with the chorus and backing...

I heard this version of "Psychotic Reaction" first and owing to this fluke can't help preferring it (although there's not a lot in it - the guitar freakout is just a little bit more freaked out)

grievance scenarios amped up to absurdity in this bitter kiss-off to an unfaithful mistreater of a girlfriend "I bought you two Mustangs and a Cadillac" "you're ugly and you're fat and you got no teeth... got no hair on your head"