Tag: The Pop Group
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
Greg Fenton reviews Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 – Cherry Red Records Coined by Paul Morley the term New Pop is not one I cherish sounding a little too contrived, too smooth to taste. Although, as with all these things labels stick with a certain accuracy. Words aside I love a lot…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982
Greg Fenton reviews Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 – Cherry Red Records Another brilliantly realised compilation from the team at Cherry Red readily captures that sense of creative excitement, as if anything could happen – and it did – in the highly charged atmospheres surrounding the late seventies to the early…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Moving Away From The Pulsebeat
Greg Fenton reviews Moving Away From The Pulsebeat – Post-Punk Britain 1978-1981 – Cherry Red Records Shall we discuss Post-Punk again? Maybe not beyond sounding like it was dreamt up as one of those catch-all titles, though lacking the necessary breadth to fit the great divide between its wild diversity of styles. In reality, the…
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Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984, 3CD Box Set – Cherry Red Records
Listening to the opening numbers from A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo confuse the very idea of post-punk recasting it more as post-funk. It was always an odd expression to begin with anyway, slightly ill-fitting yet also neatly apt to describe the flame of inspiration which fuelled Punk’s ethos while defiantly creating something altogether new…