Tuesday, July 11, 2023

NEON - Bottles 7 78 w Wuh! Wuh! 77-79 Complete 3CD 09


 Well finally after buying the band's Wuh! Wuh! compilation at VBR off the band's site over 14 years ago after hearing the seven inch single posted at the defunct Ikskp blog out of Brazil (meta friends now with Felipe who is doing well with twins, etc.).  This all started after first Nathin' Nothin' posted the Italian band stuff last week at his excellent blog on blogroll below, then over the weekend I see our mutual blogger friend AJ posts more by that same band at his excellent Themes for Great Cities on blogroll below so's I had to go back and check it.  I put my favorite song that stuck in my head oh so long ago, 'I'm On Little' that has that droid kind of singing that remined me of the NEO's right below this post.  Here is what Discog's says:

Neon formed in early 1978 and were from County Durham and they really did sound like no other band at that time. Originally coming from the remains of a band called The Hephalumps they weren't going to be your bog standard 1234 merchants. However as Tim Jones recalls "We were immediately labelled punk from our first gig so that's what we thought we were although in retrospect there were so many other influences that eventually became known as New Wave." and he accurately describes their sound as "progressive punk.... Fast and furious guitar riffs." I'll add weird time signatures verging on jazz to that! Live their "playing jerks with danceable tension" opined Phil Sutcliffe in Sounds to complete the description of their sound.  

Going to let the link expire in case they are still selling this at VBR with sketchy quality says I:

https://bestfile.io/65lXSeXqSXXs22h/file


1 comment:

EricC said...

I now know the answer to the question "what if Gentle Giant were punks?" This is berserk, I love it!

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