A courteous young lady got me to thinkin' about 1980s music. She asked what I was diggin'. Remember, I graduated high school in 1981.The The, Infected. 1982.
Well, this is about the greatest power pop/industrial wave shit on PLANET EARTH. I do not know how I could have forgotten this recording for as long as I apparently did. Matt Johnson was on it, and a half. And isn't that Nenah Cherry on a couple of cuts?
I recall seeing the entire EP done as music videos, maybe on WTBS's Night Tracks.
To this day, a smokin' hot album. To iTunes, biotches!
UPDATE: The tune one was most likely to have heard...
UPDATE II: Arabia!
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3 comments :
Took yeh long enough to properly answer! :)
i was a The The fanatic in the 80's. I have tons of stuff: 7", 12", boxset, etc. I don't listen much to any of it now but when i do, brings me smiles! My first ever import from the UK i bought was the 12" of This Is The Day. About 4000 records later, i still buy the expensive imports, dammit!
and of course, 20 years later, the track Armageddon Days Are Here Again (from Mind Bomb) is totally made for this Iraq War.
When the Operation Desert Storm started, our local indy radio station played many appropriate songs, inluding Armageddon Days.
My friend in college introduced me to The The.
(and I see Amazon has some The The remixes for download. Hmmm.)
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
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