Various Artists-Death Disco (Mojo Presents A Compendium Of Post-Punk Grooves) (2014)
Artist: Various Artists (Felt, Orange Juice, Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth, Kleenex, Public Image Ltd., Nightingales, Pere Ubu, The Fall, The Raincoats, Monochrome Set, Young Marble Giants, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Durutti Column)
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Label: Mojo Magazine
Format: CD
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Year of Release: 2014
Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK May 2014
Listed Condition: M/M sealed cracked case
Sell Date: 12/25/21
Sell Price: $2.99
Discogs Last Sold: Never
Low: $1.09
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Current low price: $1.18
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 46
Have/Want: 839/52
Where Sold: Seattle, WA
Time it took to sell: 7 years
Where and When Bought: came free with magazine
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
Yesterday I wrote about a Mojo comp I actually listened to. Today's edition we will look at one that sold sealed. Recentish in it's 2014 date, Death Disco, named after the PiL song, compiled all the early 80's post-punk favorites that would be scattered across my radio shows in the 80's and 90's. Thankfully, there was a playlist up on youtube for this sparing me the track by track link work save one. Bush Tetras "No Many Creeps" with the drumming of recently passed Dee Pop. This song has become one of the mainstays of NYC dance-punk, lasting decades in influence.
Sonic Youth seem a bit out of place here with one of my favorites "Shaking Flesh" from Confusion is Sex. You can hear echoes of the Bush Tetras song in "Kool Thing," but when faced with their early years, why would you want to? The Pinch Point editor recently rammed this them home as he shot a screenshot to me of the first Sonic Youth EP he was streaming while having a nip of bourbon at home.
Much of this is compilation dominated by what Rough Trade put out. Kleenex, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants are all excellent bands with female vocals. The narrative that there wasn't significant fanbase for these voices is simplistic. The music was pressed, distributed, bought and reissued worldwide while many other things were not. Trolling import bins or as they came out or retroactively as the 80's progressed, expensive CD imports were par for the course for hearing most of these bands before the wave of reissues started gathering steam in the 90's. Nowadays anyone can hear it with a click of a button or ignore it if that is what they want to do.
A big part of the mystique of this stuff was the scarcity. You were digging for gold to get to that strange noise and you had to track it down. To dedicate one's time to the Felt discography meant $20+/album in 80's money where people were happy to get $7.50/hr. and the minimum wage was half that. That meant going to gigs, going to many record stores, listening to the left of the dial for the occasional weirdo that would play this fringe stuff (or doing my own goddamn show at stations that cared enough to trade out the new Van Hagar for vinyl from the import bins).
The Pil track included within, "Deeper Water" is from the 2012 This Is PiL. The left curve is it doesn't sound too our of place even if Lydon sounds a tad long in the tooth.
Nothing a trip to the dentist wouldn't take care of.
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