The summer of '79

1979 was, amongst others, the year Talking Heads recorded the ground-breaking and breath-taking Fear Of Music album with Brian Eno. One of the best known songs is Life During Wartime (as seen on Stop Making Sense) but I always really liked Electric Guitar - but you can't do that YouTube it seems.

The next best song was Here comes the Summer by the Undertones. Not covered by Moke, by the way - but still a nice song.

Also, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division came out.

However, the year did not end there. Due to some mental arithmetic mixups I would have plugged Ash's Girl from Mars but that's on their '1977' album so I'm going to plunge straight ahead to the people who got LCD Soundsystem's panties in a bunch: Death From Above 1979.

Just drums and bass. Remove one and you get a frustrated drummer, or a frustrated bass player. A guitar player alone can pretend to be a singer-songwriter, but these guys have to stick together. And the raw energy they unleash by doing that, is, well just awesome!

They have a dearth of official videos but you can start with Pull Out. Go on with Black History Month and if you like that, just get the album!

Sadly, they released just one album but I hope that's enough to keep me going for another 30 years or so!

Late new years resolution

I will make more blog posts this year than my co-bloggers in total. So far I'm winning :-)

Stay tuned for the best of 30 years ago - 1979.