Post-Punk Monk
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Post-Punk Monk
4d ago
[…continued from this post] Five and a half years ago, we wrapped up an epic 75 post thread on the complete album oeuvre of OMD examined in Monastic detail. OMD are a prime Core Collection band for me with many ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
5d ago
OMD: Bauhaus Staircase – UK – CD5 [2023] Bauhaus Staircase (Album Version) Don’t Go (Album Version) The Rock Drill Bauhaus Staircase (Extended Mix) Bauhaus Staircase (Stealing Sheep Remix) We received the physical copy of this latest OMD single we sagely ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
5d ago
Last week we had another significant death in the Post-Punk Canon that I’m catching up on. I hadn’t planned on writing about his death as I have only a handful of his releases in the Record Cell, but it can ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
1w ago
It was a few weeks ago that I received the CD of Simple Minds “New Gold Dream – Live At Paisley Abbey” that my good friend chasinvictoria ordered for me and while the last month or two has seen my ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
1w ago
Last Sunday I began to see the news trickle out that Geordie Walker, the guitarist of genre-unto-themselves Killing Joke had tragically died of a stroke in his home of Prague. We now know that he had the stroke two days ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
2w ago
The last post about Derek Forbes’ autobiography touched on the connections between Australia’s Icehouse and Scotland’s Simple Minds as both bands had significant history dating back to their teaming up in 1981 for tours of Oz and the UK in ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
3w ago
If we have learned anything in the 42 years of listening, often compulsively, to Simple Minds, it’s the fact that the band’s most compelling music was usually down to the sinuous and trance-inducing bass lines of Derek Forbes. I first ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
3w ago
We’ve been watching the Skafish reissue program unfold patiently over the last handful of years as the artist first obtained the rights to his I.R.S. masters and then set about remastering and rebuilding the package for a stunning reissue that ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
1M ago
Was it already four years ago when Rain To Rust released their impressive debut album, “Flowers Of Doubt?” At the time, I was more than impressed with Mert Yildiz’ mastery of the playing and recording process as merely his guitar ..read more
Post-Punk Monk
1M ago
Blow Monkeys: Time Storm Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – UK – CD [2023] It’s been a long time coming for the second volume of The Blow Monkeys Greatest Hits as “Time Storm” was released last Friday. Their first assay of ..read more