Here are those three great singles - 'Panik', 'Paris Maquis' (the first ever release on the Rough Trade label, trivia fans) and 'Hystérie Connective'.
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Metal Urbain
The current playlist on the sidebar over at
Grown Up Backwards has a French theme - and a
damn fine listen it is too. To compliment
those tunes, here is Metal Urbain, a French
group of a slightly noisier persuasion, who
formed in 1976 and were gone by 1980, leaving
three virtually perfect punk singles and a
compilation LP of sessions, demos and b-sides behind them. The band were
notable at the time for using a primitive drum machine
and sundry experimental electronic noises to
embellish their glorious racket.
Here are those three great singles - 'Panik', 'Paris Maquis' (the first ever release on the Rough Trade label, trivia fans) and 'Hystérie Connective'.
Here are those three great singles - 'Panik', 'Paris Maquis' (the first ever release on the Rough Trade label, trivia fans) and 'Hystérie Connective'.
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If it weren't for the French (which I find terribly distracting) panik would already be in the running for my all time favorite song. Ha...after the "solo" I almost stood up and saluted.
I love this...even with the French.
Brilliant. I had entirely lost this band from my memory banks. Erik is right about the 'solo' in 'Panik' - just superb. I like how they got in really early with the whole replace the drummer with a machine thing and it makes it even funnier because they still felt the need to put it all on a drum riser at the back! When I listened to to the last one, for some reason, it began playing twice, slightly out of sync - try it, it's extra bizarre! What blog posts are for and thanks for the nod.
John Peel played 'Paris Maquis', which I consequently bought immediately, then I bumped into the other two singles over the next couple of years and picked them up as I went along. It was only years later that I discovered that these were the only singles released by the band. For all I knew at the time, they might have had a massive back catalogue available n their native land. There was a lot of guess work, detective work and luck required in those pre-internet days.
Oh Boy I enjoyed that! that lead singer is great, I had a smile all the way through the 3 tracks...am going to get this...great intro!
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