Messthetics #2

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Artist: Various

Album: Messthetics No. 2

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: 192 kbps

Posted by: Mesmerize

Description / Review:

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Track Listing

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[01/26] God’s Got Religion (The Steppes) (2:46) 192 kbps 3.81 MB

[02/26] I Don’t Know (Andy Stratton) (2:28) 192 kbps 3.40 MB

[03/26] More Than This (35MM Dreams) (2:14) 192 kbps 3.09 MB

[04/26] Colours (Teenage & the Wildlife) (1:56) 192 kbps 2.66 MB

[05/26] Sweet Tooth (Spherical Objects) (3:52) 192 kbps 5.31 MB

[06/26] Girl on the Bus (Thin Yoghurts) (2:33) 192 kbps 3.50 MB

[07/26] Negative Positive (Sods) (2:25) 192 kbps 3.32 MB

[08/26] No Pictures Of Us (Sods) (2:28) 192 kbps 3.40 MB

[09/26] Funtime (Spitfire Boys) (3:45) 192 kbps 5.17 MB

[10/26] Chumneys (Tagmemics) (3:13) 192 kbps 4.43 MB

[11/26] Soft Babies (Stockholm Monsters) (3:33) 192 kbps 4.89 MB

[12/26] Break Point (Strutz) (2:21) 192 kbps 3.24 MB

[13/26] How I Lost My Virginity (Spunky Onions) (3:21) 192 kbps 4.61 MB

[14/26] Three Wishes (Television Personalities) (3:35) 192 kbps 4.93 MB

[15/26] Taking Sides (Take It) (2:29) 192 kbps 3.43 MB

[16/26] Lovers Of The Future (Stereotypes) (3:00) 192 kbps 4.13 MB

[17/26] He Thinks He Knows Me (Predators) (3:01) 192 kbps 4.14 MB

[18/26] The Bearer (35MM Dreams) (3:55) 192 kbps 5.38 MB

[19/26] Common Problems (Stepping Talk) (2:49) 192 kbps 3.88 MB

[20/26] B52G (Tea Set) (1:05) 192 kbps 1.50 MB

[21/26] Sing Song (Tea Set) (1:33) 192 kbps 2.15 MB

[22/26] Evil Going On (Terraplanes) (3:22) 192 kbps 4.62 MB

[23/26] How It Is (Take It) (4:13) 192 kbps 5.79 MB

[24/26] Breaking Rocks On Rikers Island (Surgeons) (2:38) 192 kbps 3.62 MB

[25/26] Where Were You (Slight Seconds) (2:02) 192 kbps 2.80 MB

[26/26] Little White Lies (Stolen Power) (2:45) 192 kbps 3.79 MB

Total number of files: 26

Total size of files: 101.11 MB

Total playing time: 73:22

Generated: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:22:13 PM

Created with: #indie.torrents NFO Generator (Mac) v2.3b1

Collage name

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DIY Post-Punk

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Compilation info

In terms of name recognition, the stars of Messthetics #2 — the second volume of Hyped to Death’s far-reaching roundup of U.K. punk D.I.Y. singles — are the Steppes, featuring the Members’ Adrian Lillywhite and TV Personalities, the long-running quirky pop saga whose whimsical takes on the moods and the momentum of their age rarely reached the same peaks as “Three Wishes,” a breathy, early- Pink Floyd-ish number that insists, “If I had three wishes, I’d wish for three more.” Alphabetically bound between “Si” and “Th,” a handful of other names are familiar from the U.K. club small ads of the age — Liverpool’s Teenage & the Wildlife, with their stop-go rhythms and undying melodic hooks; Manchester’s Spherical Objects, a band firmly cast in the kind of mold A Certain Ratio would have fit in if they thought they were the Stranglers; South Coast punks the Sods; and Stockport power poppers Predator. There’s also a rare and much-deserved outing for the Stockholm Monsters, Factory labelmates of New Order and company, but vastly deserving of a higher profile than that suggests. Built around a spooky Doors organ, a piano break that wants to be Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony,” and the same kind of wide-open breaks that made the second Slits album such a disconcerting experience, “Soft Babies” is as haunting as it’s arty, and a potent reminder that punk opened the door to many more musical forms than the ones you can think of offhand. Modern predilections for world music and experimental jazz both owe a debt of thanks to the era’s liberating flame and, if the occasional cut hits you as mere discordant messing about (Stepping Talk’s “Common Problems is a case in point), still history found a purpose for their tomfoolery. Messthetics is here to remind listeners of that fact. – allmusic