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this is great! what a fucking riot

@Barristered Yeah I think this is why punk became such a phenomenon and has lasted so long as it has. There were all these bands in the US and also a bunch of bands in the UK and they were doing stuff in a similar vein but then when punk happened it was like a common cause on both sides of the At...

He's a great guy. But I ask, how many times does this clip have to be copied and pasted-up on youtube? One only with a million hits is better than 60 with 200 hits apiece.

Well done. About 4 seconds of riot and the rest was pictures of pavements and camera shake.

sounds different to what I remember - has this been sped-up?

great upload, great band.

Soundtrack to a marginalised youth in Thatcher's Britain

You used to get little fluffy clouds in the UK too. But now with climate change a big thick blanket comes over the horizon every day at about 8.00 am and blocks out the sun and makes everybody miserable. Thats what you get when you live in a temporate zone and elsewhere the world is baking up :(

This isn't on my copy of ex:el !

love this un

Never knew what the sample was from about 3.00 mins along 'Uh-oh-aw Uh-ow-aw...' though it appears in more than a few acid tunes from that era.

This one's new to me - very glad I found it. From their Krautrock period?

I seem to be on a good run with youtube searches, nothing from that idiot 'stereolab origins'. What a wanker! Some people even post their admiration for what he's doing. Well if you're reading this Mr Stereolab Origins...

If you spend even a short time in Paris you will find radio stations that play Brazillian music non-stop. It's very popular over in France, apparently. That said, I'm not that keen on this album myself, prefer Cobra & Phasers......or whatever it's called

I think if there was ever a band I wish I'd been a part of or played in, Stereolab would be it.

@maxcorradi hey I might have seen you. Quickspace were playing Camden, possibly the Bull & Gate? there were three of you on guitar and all the guitars had a short scale / toy guitars.... or maybe it was just late in the night and the drink had effected my vision. I've got the album, I thought yo...

that greasy rocker with his can of skol!

the ginger kid wearing a parka

kids wearing ties

the old ramshackle equipment

everything just set-up in the corner of the room

hand-held camera and no jump-cut editing

old posters left on the wall

then look at today's music TV where everything is staged an...

This is great! you could make a video game out of this.

crap

haven't heard this in decades.

thanks for posting

hey turn the sound up

This is such a great LP. Really can't understand the way Green went in later records, it's like he's trying to be like Duran Duran / ABC / Tina Turner, all those brash 80s groups who made 'being successful' their main attribute.... but he's like the nerd who isn't one of the gang, hanging around...

really lovely

@emile235 I remember when this came out and Radio 1 invited Green to the studio as a guest. What he said then was that he'd been reading about the time when Jesus was around and that there were loads of these prophets doing the same thing. They used to preach in the markets and live up trees and ...

JJ is wearing the notorious 'penis T-shirt'

The music has elements of Pink Flag (the song) and Culture Vultures, so I guess they are looking back to their very early stuff again.

I dunno, the way they used to do it was quite stripped-down and direct which was really startling at the time. They wouldn't have been saying 'I remember...' lik...

they performed this as an encore to a gig they played at the Garage in Islington. This was after they'd been reformed for a while and started revisiting their earlier stuff. Their set consisted of most of Pink Flag and one or two others from later albums. I think this was about 1999 or it could...

such a great band. changed everything I though about music.

great! hang on to your obscure punk!

the car stays straight on the road meanwhile the steering wheel gets pulled in all directions.

I used to live in a tree - haha what a great comment.

yeah and donkey teeth - the teeth aren't bad at all - it's his mouth that's a bit wonky.

It's kind of funny how they are standing and jerking their heads about. Funny how this would have been a cool way of posing about at one time.

Has any...

Mind you, if it mean't sharing a dressing room with a tasty girl like that, then count me in!

Good to see them doing this and not looking like complete idiots like a lot of the punk bands who've recently reformed.

I tell you what though, you can look back at the early days of punk in the UK and see which bands took their sound from the NY Dolls and just about the lot of them were sunk wi...

This has quite a lot in common with Wire's Pink Flag... 'I was sold down the river to the red slave trade / how many dead or alive' - that song.

checking this stuff out after seeing that the band came after the Urinals.

Urinals were excellent

I'm sorry to say to all these guys pining for a date that all the Vivian Girls belong to the outsider artist Henry Darger, and they are all actually little boys. Mind you he's dead now so you might be in with a chance.

Another crazy cyclical lyric, this time from Men 2nd and one of my favourites from the LP:

Holed beneath the water line / a shift in the Plimsol line / pumps in the engine room.

So hang on, wait wait wait... is he still talking about a sinking ship or is it actually just a hole in his shoe.

ha...

@slavnotslave I wouldn't say Wire have been ignored! They have had a massive influence on the direction of 'alternative' music and even crossover into mainstream pop. They were one of the few UK bands rated by the US hardcore scene and their 154 and Chairs Missing LPs showed what could be done w...

@pafcredo Playing for England, Ing-er-land. It was the official World cup theme tune for the English football team. Don't worry about not finding it, I don't think anybody much cares for it now.

This is probably the earliest recorded footage of the Sex Pistols - how great is that?

Thanks for uploading