Whelks

So what did you do for your Bank Holiday Monday?
Me?
I had a pleasant walk along the beach, then lunched on a punnet of whelks while watching the old folk ride around the harbour wall in their motorized buggies.

After all this sensory experience I felt it was fitting to spend the rest of the afternoon chilling out to some classic punk and early post-punk 45s.
Just seemed appropriate somehow.

Unfortunately I am unable to share the visual imagery associated with the mechanized aged (I'm no Martin Parr that's for sure), nor can I pass on the orally gratifying experience of chewing on a well peppered and vinegared whelk, but I can share some of the music I listened to, inspired by the slow, peculiar, but not unpleasant digestive sensation brought on by the aforementioned mollusc.

Classics all!
Makes for a nice little compilation.











Buzzcocks

A - Orgasm Addict
B - What Ever Happened To?

Produced by Martin Rushent, 1977

Magazine

A - Give Me Everything
B - I Love You You Big Dummy

Produced by Tony Wilson, 1978

The Ruts

A - In a Rut
B - H-Eyes

Produced by The Ruts, 1979

Throbbing Gristle

A - United
B - Zyklon B Zombie

Produced by Throbbing Gristle, 1978

PiL

A - Memories
B - Another

12" version, Produced by PiL, 1979

All ripped from vinyl @320kbs
A fistful of 45s here

Enjoy!

I'm going to try razor clams next week...

Hard To Swallow

Here's a little taster for some newly released PIL material.

Originally sourced from a BBC Radio 1 session for the Mark Goodier show back in the early nineties, here are four tracks from a particularly heavy incarnation of Lydon's tribe.

Promoting the album That What Is Not, the band sound tight and energized; and with two guitarists the effect is a very metal accompaniment to Lydon's bitter, confessional lyrics.

The stand out songs are essentially the best two tracks from the album.
'Cruel' which is a real blinder of a PIL track, in this setting sounding truly bombastic, and must be considered one of the best post classic PIL tunes; and 'Acid Drops', a track that cleverly samples early Pistols without double dipping.

Lydon fluffs a line during his performance of 'Acid Drops', but being the showman he is ad-libs his way out of it so well you wonder whether the slip was really a slip at all.
You just can't trust these Situationists!

PIL Session for BBC Radio 1 (1992)

Cruel
Acid Drops
Love Hope
Think Tank

Excellent rip from cassette @320kbs

These tracks have now been released as part of The Plastic Box collection.
So if you like these it's probably worth getting a copy of that.
Very reasonably priced...

Taster Session here