🎧 "One World (Not Three)" (1981) zooms me back to Summer, 1983 in DC. I DJ'd Happy Hour in the courtyard of a new office building. 19th and L-ish—outside a "Cantina."
Yuppies and Guppies and Jose Cuervo, mostly. This track made them move!
For my friends on the #Fediverse who like #TheyMightBeGiants, here is an FYI - the band dropped a digital live version recorded in 2013 of their very first album, the Pink Album (1986), on their website for...FREE for a limited time.
45 years ago today
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by the pop punk / newwave band Blondie, released on this day in 1978, featuring the singles "Hanging on the Telephone", "Heart of Glass", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another"
i'm new to mastodon so i might as well do an intro post! anyways, my name is jt but i also go by steven. i use he/him pronouns and am really into #postpunk, #punk, and #newwave music. i also am a big musical instrument nerd and i play 6 musical instruments. occasionally i write posts on my #blog which is centered around #music and other things, and i'm starting to get into making music myself! feel free to follow me or whatever. always looking to make new friends.
Since I was just given a free copy of their new, upcoming album, it's only fair that I talk about them here on Fedi for the first time 💗
I think I found out about this Norwegian 🇳🇴 project through post-punk.com if I remember correctly, and right off the bat I absolutely fell in love with them. Many of my gothy friends don't share this sentiment, but for me the sound of this release is just right up my alley. The post-punky, reverbed, chorused guitars mixed with the retro-hypnagogic-sounding synths (especially in "New Kind" and "Drives Me On") to me almost feel like a post-punk/vaporwave fusion - and if you know me, then you probably can tell that is just the perfect kind of stuff for my ears.
I love it so much. :gothsparkleheart: 💗
Their music disappeared off streaming recently, but they've mentioned that they plan to make a comeback sometime in the future :)
47 years ago today
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
This record and XTC's English Settlement spent a lot of time on my turntable in 1981/1982.
It was a pretty big pivot from the first three albums, leaving the "pure" guitar trio behind, and using quite a lot of synthesizer. Plus, Hugh Padgham gave these more ambitious tracks a big, atmospheric sound...something that would continue into their next (and last) record.
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977. Photo by Kelly Bugden
Billy Idol releases his debut, self-titled solo album, “Billy Idol”
As his first band, “Generation X”, began to see less commercial success, producer Bill Aucoin (managed Kiss through most of the 1970s) helped push Billy Idol to become a solo act.
This debut album has a lot of great tunes, and several that charted. “Hot In The City”, “Dancing With Myself”, and my personal favorite, “White Wedding”. I have a fond memory of watching the video for White Wedding on MTV, as part of my intro to “new wave” music.