Delta 5
Sadly
Postpunkjunk.com bit the internet dust the other day. A google cache of their page states that their own hosting company shut down their site due to the load it was putting on the servers! Wow. Glad no one reads missingtoof.
PPJ says they will soon be reincarnated in a new form. We all await that day. No one could ever replace the great resource that Postpunkjunk.com was, but here’s some Post Punk Classics to hold you over until their return.
MP3: Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
MP3: Mo-Dettes - White Mice
MP3: Gang Of Four - I love a Man In A Uniform (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s remix)
MP3: Thee Headcoatees - Cara-Lin
Rough Trade Shops released a pretty comprehensive Post Punk compilation in 2003. 2 discs worth. Grab that here
. If you like your post punk the way it was served back in the day; on 45’s, hit up ebay & Gemm.
DISAMBIGUATION
A lot of the stuff tagged as ‘New Wave‘ could arguably also be labeled ‘Post Punk‘ & vice versa. So as to not get into an endless argument on the differences between Post Punk & New Wave I’ll begin tagging both Punk Punk & New Wave as 80’s.
Marketing directors are douche bags. Sometimes a company will hire a semi-cool agency who will know a tad about music & cast a Modest Mouse song in a minivan commercial. Or enlist Midwest Product for a Hummer advertisement. Yesterday I saw a smart phone commercial featuring MSTRKRFT’s version of Death From Above 1979’s ‘Sexy Results’. Kudos to them for having good taste.
However for the most part marketing companies pick a horrible, horrible pop song to back the horrible, horrible products they are pitching. Or instead of opting to pay a reasonable amount to the artist to use their song, they’ll pay their in-house music department to do a cheap knock off. Even worse still, is when they take a perfectly good song and use a vomit inducing cover of it to advertise.
Many a good song have fallen victim to terrible covers. One of the worst would have to be the theme song to ‘Charmed’ which is a cover of The Smiths’ ‘How soon Is Now’. Oh god, it’s bad. Pepsi, more recently used a horrific rendition of Plastic Bertrand’s ‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’. I don’t know what terrible band is responsible for it, but they should go to church & repent for they have sinned.
Here is an example of good cover of Ca Plane Pour Moi:
Thee Headcoatees - Ca Plane Pour Moi.
Soda companies & shitty bands everywhere,
take note.
