Courtesy of this lady here on Facebook. Thanks Julie.
1. Medium Medium - So Hungry, So Angry
Killer use of echo, and squalling saxophone... the slap bass, now throughly and rightly ridiculed the world over, was mandatory for the times and as such should not be dismissed lightly. This is like a Clock DVA lite. There's no denying the killer chorus, though.
2. Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
Again, the bass sound is all wrong AND IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER. One of those songs that make you want to move another city (c.f. The Slits 'Shoplifting') - in this case, the Bush Tetras made NYC sounded appealingly paranoid.
3. ESG - Erase You
Genuflect, damn you! It's ESG.
4. Material - Reduction
Damned if I hadn't forgotten this band. Again, what's with the slapped bass!? It never did anyone no wrong. Same way as Phil Collins ruined Diana Ross And The Supremes for a generation, and Gerry Rafferty killed the saxophone, Seinfeld hammered the final nail into the coffin of slap bass.
5. Loose Joints - Tell You (Today)
A seven-minute Arthur Russell song on 4th & Broadway with whistles, hand-claps and funky brass? Yes please.
6. Maximum Joy - Stretch (Discomix & Rap)
Always loved this, post-Slits.
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