Mekons
The Mekons Story
© 2008 Buried Treasure Records
CD IN STOCK. ORDER NOW. Will ship immediately.
From cacophonic punk, primitive disco, agitated funk and new wave, and synth pop, the consistent thread in this material is the sheer brilliance of the Mekons' literacy in songwriting.
tracks
- 1 Letter's In The Post
- 2 Not a Bitterman (Born To Be Mild)
- 3 Dance and Drink the Mekons
- 4 Bomb Train
- 5 Trouble Down South
- 6 Car-Men
- 7 Eden
- 8 Frustration
- 9 Fight The Cuts
- 10 Byron
- 11 This Sporting Life
- 12 Rosanne
- 13 Garden Fence of Sound
- 14 Miriam Always
- 15 Walking Song
- 16 The Building
- 17 I'm So Happy
- 18 I Bought You These
- 19 He Beat Up His Boyfriend
- 20 1st Guitarist
try this
albums you will love
- DHS: Mind Control EP (Vinyl 12")
- RASPUTINA: Oh Perilous World
- VARIOUS ARTISTS: Surround Sound Works - DVD
- SHORT N SASSY: The Instrumentals (Vinyl 12")
- TINO: Tino's Breaks Volume 1 (Vinyl LP)
- MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO: Echo In Space Dub (Vinyl 12")
- MELORA CREAGER: Perplexions
- RICHARD BUCKNER & JON LANGFORD: Sir Dark Invader Vs. The Fanglord
- KEVIN COYNE WITH JON LANGFORD & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS: One Day in Chicago
- RASPUTINA: A Radical Recital
- SOPHIE AUSTER: Sophie Auster
- TINO: Tino Vision DVD
- ONE RING ZERO: Addendum DVD
- THE THREE JOHNS: Live In Chicago
- ONE RING ZERO: As Smart As We Are
- UNCLE DAVE & THE WACO BROTHERS: Nine Slices Of My Mid-Life Crisis
- ONE RING ZERO: Interludes And Out-takes From The Pumpkin Pie Show
- MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO: Storm The Studio R.M.X.S.
- BO SQUARE: Outer Space Suite
- DHS: House Of God (Vinyl 12")
- ONE RING ZERO: Memorandum
genres you will love
By Location
notes
Originally released in 1982, The Mekons Story (also known as It Falleth like the Gentle Rain from Heaven) is a collection of rare and unobtainable tracks from the U.K. punk legends which Jon Langford describes as "our revenge on the world". This 20 track CD includes brilliant outtakes, unreleased tracks, alternate versions, B-sides, as well as a handful of live radio sessions recorded between 1977 and 1982 during the first Mekons incarnation. With a drunken sounding David Spencer providing a between cuts "history" of the band, this, more than any other Mekons recording, shows their crucial and comic postpunk development. From cacophonic punk, primitive disco, agitated funk and new wave, and synth pop, the consistent thread in this material is the sheer brilliance of the Mekons' literacy in songwriting.
"THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE BEATLES" - Lester Bangs
"They are better than Budgie and REO Speedwagon combined!" - Lester Bangs