Postpunk Chronicles: Scared To Dance

Postpunk Chronicles: Scared To Dance Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 081227533229
EAN: 0081227533229
ASIN: B00000G5PE


Release Date: 1999-01-12

Postpunk Chronicles: Scared To Dance


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Tracks:

  1. Do It Clean - Echo & The Bunnymen
  2. Duchess - The Stranglers
  3. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing - Heaven 17
  4. Life In A Day - Simple Minds
  5. The Light Pours Out Of Me - Magazine
  6. Hiroshima Mon Amour - Ultravox
  7. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  8. New Values - Iggy Pop
  9. Resurrection Joe - The Cult
  10. We Are Time - The Pop Group
  11. Incubus (Blue Suit) - Tuxedomoon
  12. Visions Of China - Japan
  13. Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag
  14. Hungry, So Angry - Medium Medium
  15. Change - Killing Joke
  16. Scared To Dance - Skids

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It really was a glorious time for music. The Smiths were still together. R.E.M. were still a bar band. New Order were finding their voice apart from Joy Division. And Robert Smith's smeared lipstick was redder than Molly Ringwald's hair. <I>Scared to Dance</I> is one of three compilations in Rhino's Postpunk Chronicles series, which also includes Left of the Dial and Going Underground. If the songs on this album evoke memories of your youth, then you'll remember what the term cult following used to mean. Your cult was a community of outsiders who found solidarity in Echo and the Bunnymen, ripped fishnet stockings, Dead Kennedys jackets, and a mass of hair products ranging from powdered bleach to egg whites. The worst thing that could happen to your band was a Top 40 hit. <I>--Beth Bessmer</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Recommended, but approach with a grain of salt..........1999-09-04

What does "Postpunk" mean to you? As usual, Rhino has done a terrific job of attempting to chronicle an era, a sound, a zeitgeist from the vinyl age for those who wish to either discover or relive bygones digitally. Many of the selections here are correctly, even brilliantly included under the "postpunk" moniker (Pop Group, Magazine, early Simple Minds...but where's early PiL?...does anyone besides me remember Young Marble Giants? The Basement 5?) in the spirit of what that term appeared to mean approx. 1978-1982. However, at least one selection appears here completely without merit: the track by The Cult. As the liner notes correctly state, the earliest material by that band was the best, but "postpunk?" The track is from 1984, for crying out loud, FAR too late to be considered postpunk, which The Cult NEVER were. Rhino's editorial downfall is the occaisional desperation to include Los Angeles scenes in everything cool that ever happened. Sorry, but LA was never one of the hearts of postpunk. Even LA punk, as great as it was, flourished long after punk was declared dead in its true points of origin. This reviewer's sour grapes aside, do buy the CD if you're interested! It's the best in the series, and it's a very, very fun listen. Makes me wish such energy, creativity, and originality were as abundant in popular rock-associated musics now as they were then. I hope this series continues beyond the three current releases, and I hope that Rhino will be able to secure rights to more of the *real* postpunk music, as opposed to squeezing related, easily-found songs into the catagory.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Bond Born ~ Bond
  2. Act Of Free Choice ~ David Bridie
  3. Fuzz ~ Chucklehead
  4. ELO II ~ Electric Light Orchestra
  5. Home Truths from Abroad ~ Fretblanket
  6. Visions of Paradise ~ Mick Jagger
  7. Dead Ends and Girlfriends ~ Allister
  8. The Interview Sessions ~ Dave Matthews
  9. Need to Be Next to You
  10. Better Sights Were Set (Dig) ~ Places to Park

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Montana: A Love Story ~ George Winston

Django Rheinhardt ~ Django Reinhardt, Anthology 1934-1937

Latin Shadows ~ Shirley Scott

God Bless America ~ Various Artists

Brilliant Corners

Jazz and Hot Dance, Vol. 6: Hungary 1912-49 ~ Various Artists

Swing Explosivo ~ Robert Vargas Y Su Grupo Killa

Standing Alone ~ Stevie Lawrence

Vocabulario ~ Bojo

Tarkan ~ Tarkan