Moving inexorably towards the 80s. Should get there by the weekend. I most enjoyed Joy Division's 1977 demo for RCA, consisting of "The Drawback", "Interzone", and "Shadowplay". These songs - as is - could have come from just about any of the myriad of bands that formed in the wake of the Sex Pistols and The Ramones. Looking back you know that Peter Hook, Ian Curtis, Martin Hannett and the rest had bigger things in mind, but as is the demo is a bit limp. "Shadowplay" in particular sounds like it has had the air taken out of it's tires. It has neither the propulsive force of their live versions or the recorded in a black hole atmosphere of the later album version.Also, listening to Radio City and Third/Sister Lovers in the same day was quite interesting. You can practically hear Alex Chilton come undone as the songs get looser, more destructive, and infinitely depressing. On Radio City, particularly "September Gurls", he's wistfully romantic - but halfway through Third/Sister Lovers he's singing, "you're a holocaust". Yikes.
- Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
- Brian Eno - Another Green World
- Big Star - Radio City
- Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
- King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black
- Roxy Music - Country Life
- David Bowie - Low
- Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
- The Jam - This is the Modern World
- Suicide - First Album
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