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This collection of rare and unobtainable tracks from the U.K. punk legends was unearthed from the vaults and includes brilliant outtakes, alternate versions, cover tunes, B-sides, and a handful of live radio sessions which cover the Mekons' earliest incarnation dating 1978 to 1982.
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- “Where Were You?”
- “Space in Your Face”
- “Millionaire”
- “The Curse”
- “Powers and Horror”
- “Hard to Be Human Again”
- “Waltz”
- “Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem”
- “Ghosts of American Astronauts”
- “Memphis, Egypt”
Early on the Mekons demonstrated that their considerable ambitions would extend well beyond the stringent confines of first-wave punk. That creative restlessness was never more evident than on 1978’s brilliant and slyly self-effacing single “Where Were You?” Pitched someplace between the populist major-chord reverie of Sham 69 and the awkward plain...
The galloping, upbeat “Space In Your Face” is 3:30 of pure, uncut pop pleasure replete with hooks and thrilling energy that belies the fact that it was released nearly forty years into the band’s career. While sounding perfectly fresh, the song is still vintage Mekons: It covers everything from the tragedy of the 1910 bombing of the L.A. Times, to ...
While the Mekons are the furthest thing from predictable, they are never less than humorous. “Millionaire” is a fantastic example of the band’s innate ability to be incredibly hilarious while sounding unbelievably cool to the point of almost — almost — seeming indifferent. Timms’ laconic delivery of vicious lines like “Lust corrodes my body/ I’ve l...
Beginning with a winsome, Chieftains-like violin figure and baptized with the unforgettable initial gambit: “Magic, fear and superstition/ this is the curse of the Mekons,” 1992’s opener to the brilliant The Curse Of The Mekonsis an equal opportunity account of a band that has ostensibly failed in conventional terms but succeeded in all of the ways...
Shedding for a moment the hard armor of their overarching cleverness, this devastating, piano-driven ballad is a wounded confessional told from the perspective of an estranged lover who has neither country nor relationship to call his own. The implied terrors invoked by the title are a cancer that destroys relationships both intimate and societal. ...
If there is a foundational text to the Mekons’ experience, a kind of combined New and Old Testament, surely it must be the lacerating, blues-driven “Hard To Be Human Again,” a bruising travelogue and cautionary tale that reveals with utter certitude that no one is to be trusted, and god bless them for that. The Mekons’ world is one in which betraya...
The Mekons possess an almost savant-like gift for catchy, upbeat rock, so it is strange to consider that much, if not most, of their best work occurs when the tempo slows. Such is the case with “Waltz,” whose Orwell-echoing sentiment “You animals can’t see/ your own activity” is the desperate highlight of The Curse Of The Mekonsalbum. Right from th...
The lead track to 2002’s Out Of Our Headsis perhaps the best existing commentary on 9/11 and the tragic, ultimately fruitless wars that followed in its wake. With razor’s edge acuity, and fashioned over a tribal beat like something out of Paul Simon’s worst nightmares, the band makes the case that the march to endless war is apiece with 3000 years ...
“Ghosts Of American Astronauts” is one of the Mekons’ most poignant and beautiful tracks. Ostensibly concerning NASA and the Apollo 11moon landing, the song is really more about the awful sadness that plagued America in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Sally Timms, sounding positively ethereal in a lovely bed of late-’80s production touches, intones “...
The lead track from the band’s astounding, toxic triumph The Mekons Rock ‘N’ Rollis a distillation of the rage, humor, and irony that populates so much of the group’s greatest work. Over a driving riff and unforgettable refrain, “Memphis, Egypt” lays waste to rock’s mythologies while unapologetically indulging in its sensual pleasures. Here Langfor...
The Mekons are a British band formed in the late 1970s as an art collective. They are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands. [2][3] The band's style has evolved over time to incorporate aspects of country music, folk music, alternative rock and occasional experiments with dub. [4] .
The Mekons. British rock band, formed in 1977 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. In the mid-1980s they changed their style to folk/folk rock. The band's name was derived from the Mekon, the villainous Venusian from the British comic strip Dan Dare.
Formed in the late 1970s as an art collective, Mekons are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands.
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Mar 6, 2002 · Fear and Whiskey was the first great statement of "shambolic punk" band the Mekons, and yes, it is as great as all their rabid fans have always said (though "the greatest rock album in history"...
