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Artist: Various
Album: Messthetics No. 1
Label: Hyped 2 Death
Year:
Genre: Messthetics
RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
Encoder: iTunes v10.2
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Codec: iTunes MP#
Avg Bit Rate: 193 kbps
Posted by: Mesmerize
Description / Review:
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It is one of history’s most cherished truths that rock in the ’70s was a tiresome morass until punk rushed in to resurrect its tired soul with a flamethrower belch of adrenalin, energy, and creative brilliance. And, like most cherished truths, there is a degree of fact to that statement. However, there’s also an awful lot of revisionism as well, a reality that the Messthetics series seems single-handedly intent on proving. Titled from a cut from Scritti Politti’s second EP (and a lyric in the Undertones’ “My Perfect Cousin”), Messthetics is a multi-volume, essentially alphabetical compilation of the myriad bands existing just beneath the mainstream punk radar during the crucial years of 1977-1981. It was an era that has rarely been documented with any kind of thoroughness, but one in which the notion of “Do It Yourself” record manufacture spread through the underground like a virulent plague. The Buzzcocks are generally credited as the first band to exploit the possibilities of total D.I.Y., with their self-financed, self-released Spiral Scratch EP — but they, of course, are beyond the scope of Messthetics. The rule here is for bands who, for the most part, did nothing more than a D.I.Y. single or two, who have not been anthologized to death elsewhere, and who are considered obscure by even punk connoisseurs. And it’s about time, too. Presented in alphabetical volumes, with each single disc devoted to one or two letters of the alphabet, Messthetics is not, of course, complete. For every band drawn from the depths of vinyl obscurity, there’s another dozen who still await their day in the re-release sun. But more than any other anthology of punk’s forgotten foot soldiers — be it Killed by Death, Bad Teeth, or whatever — Messthetics not only goes back to the roots of punk, it also gets to the roots of what punk was all about. And, if some of it is almost impossibly hard to listen to, then blame the cherished truth. Messthetics is the reality check listeners have been waiting for for so long. For reasons of its own, the series actually begins at the end — the first four volumes travel from the letters R-Z, with volume one (R-“Si”) initially catching the eye via the inclusion of the aforementioned Scritti Politti, and one track apiece from their first two self-releases, “Messthetics,” naturally, among them. The key, thereafter, is variety. Opening offerings from the Record Players, the Scrotum Poles, and Royston are far, far away from the most familiar tenets of punk, and you’re five songs in before Six Minute War cuts in with anything even remotely resembling a muddy two-chord blurge. Elsewhere, too, moods veer from quirky electro-pop (the Scabs) to quizzical early-Wire-isms (the Reducers), from new wave moodiness (the Rest) to Slits-influenced tribal discordance (Sara Goes Pop). Future Sound frontman Adrian Borland surfaces with his formative Second Layer, Atv’s Mark Perry is encountered amid the Reflections, and so on. Not every track is a winner, not every band is any good, but across 29 tracks, Messthetics #1 is as buoyant and brittle as the era that it documents — and that, really, is what matters the most. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
Track Listing
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[01/29] Don’t Go Backwards (Record Players) (3:12) 198 kbps 4.56 MB
[02/29] Pick the Cat’s Eyes Out (The Scrotum Poles) (2:53) 196 kbps 4.06 MB
[03/29] Gerald’s Eyes (Royston) (2:36) 192 kbps 3.58 MB
[04/29] Messthetics (Scritti Politti) (1:43) 192 kbps 2.36 MB
[05/29] Big Week (Six Minute War) (1:48) 178 kbps 2.30 MB
[06/29] Leave Me Alone (Scabs) (2:46) 194 kbps 3.85 MB
[07/29] We Are Normal (The Reducers) (2:01) 190 kbps 2.76 MB
[08/29] 60-7 (Record Players) (2:57) 187 kbps 3.96 MB
[09/29] Sus (Reacta) (2:13) 188 kbps 2.99 MB
[10/29] From the Top (Restricted Code) (3:22) 210 kbps 5.07 MB
[11/29] Saying Goodbye (Reptile Ranch) (3:05) 210 kbps 4.64 MB
[12/29] Giles Hall (Six Minute War) (0:59) 180 kbps 1.28 MB
[13/29] Helicopter Honeymoon (The Scrotum Poles) (1:41) 226 kbps 2.73 MB
[14/29] Up Down Around (Sema 4) (3:44) 184 kbps 4.95 MB
[15/29] Raga (The Rest) (4:11) 195 kbps 5.84 MB
[16/29] Is and Ought the Western World (Scritti Politti) (3:45) 206 kbps 5.53 MB
[17/29] A Small One (Scissor Fits) (0:31) 187 kbps 0.69 MB
[18/29] Courts or Wars (Second Layer) (3:45) 190 kbps 5.12 MB
[19/29] Why? (The Seize) (2:42) 201 kbps 3.91 MB
[20/29] Fleeced (Sara Goes Pop) (1:15) 205 kbps 1.85 MB
[21/29] Headmaster (The School Meals) (3:07) 214 kbps 4.78 MB
[22/29] 4 Countries (The Reflections) (1:53) 192 kbps 2.60 MB
[23/29] I Don’t Want to Work for British Airways (Scissor Fits) (2:27) 189 kbps 3.33 MB
[24/29] White House (Schizoid) (3:13) 191 kbps 4.42 MB
[25/29] Getting Things Done (Restricted Hours) (3:20) 194 kbps 4.64 MB
[26/29] Times Encounter (Nigel Simpkins) (2:06) 146 kbps 2.21 MB
[27/29] Television Television (The Ripchords) (1:38) 186 kbps 2.18 MB
[28/29] Can’t Stop Now (The Reducers) (2:12) 194 kbps 3.07 MB
[29/29] Lovers (Paul Reekie) (3:27) 178 kbps 4.41 MB
Total number of files: 29
Total size of files: 103.83 MB
Total playing time: 74:32
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