Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "N" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Inspire me to pull them down from my shelf and listen to them!

The Nasty Boys
Native Tongue ('80s new wave band)
Negative Approach
Bill Nelson's Red Noise
Nichts
No Dice
Noize Toys
The Nomads ('80s Swedish garage band)

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Red Noise at the time, Nelson's move to "go new wave," or at least shorten the song lengths and trim the guitar solos. An often-interesting move for the legendary Be-Bop Deluxe guitar showoff. I haven't listened to mine in years, either.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

By all means, Bill Nelson's Red Noise. I used to think that "Drastic Plastic" by Be Bop Deluxe was cool until I got "Red Noise". Excellent!

― Max Murdoc, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Another thumbs-up for Red Noise - by far the best Bill Nelson / -related album that I've ever heard.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Was "Do You Dream In Colour" done with Red Noise, or was that just solo Nelson? Anyway, roughly the same period (1980)... great angular arty new wave pop.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That was himself solo. Classic video, by the way.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

As was the one for "Rooms With Brittle Views" around the same time, iirc.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Omigod NEGATIVE APPROACH! The 7" EP is way better than the album, which is metal in a way that doesn't always suit them, but on the album "Tied Down" is incredibly massive, and "Evacuate" is scary, and "Nothing" is just brutal and nihilistic and self-hating as anything. Play Side 1 at boneshaking volume please.

John Brannon, of course, went on to Laughing Hyenas.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Another great thing about the Red Noise album is that it is so blatantly XTC down to the vocals -- to the point that when I played it at donut debonair, noted XTC freak, for the first time his jaw dropped. This was in the days before easy CD burning or ripping so we had to be on the hunt for a second copy of the album, as I had bought the first at the request of a friend who had been hunting it for years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned speaks the truth. Bill Nelson's Red Noise's Sound On Sound (1979) is both a peer of XTC's White Music or Go 2, while also prototyping (for better or worse) Oingo Boingo.

Possibly, it's the most accurate prototype of the Futureheads.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw John Brannon play with his current group, Easy Action, this past weekend. My god, is he intense! I can only imagine what a Negative Approach gig must have been like...

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Monday, 16 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll jump into the pit on Negative Approach, too. I saw them at one of those all-ages shows, but have to confess it's kind of a blur. Their EP is, to me, one of the most enduring hardcore artifacts.

My take on the Nomads was that they were a costume garage band who suffered by comparison to the Stomachmouths, for instance.

― brianiac (briania), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Electric Frankenstein has covered "Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric!)" by Bill Nelson's Red Noise. I haven't heard the cover. I REALLY want to hear it!

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I forgot to include Nonnie and the Onnies at the least at the top of this thread!

And on the basis of consistency and rockability alone, Nomads may well be the best '80s/'90s/'00s garage-punk-revival shticksters I've heard to be honest. (I couldn't stand most of the '80s ones, and I've yet to hear a Nomads album I didn't like.) Kinda curious what would make Stomachmouths (who I've never heard or heard of til now) so much better.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:03 (sixteen years ago)

― sturkskogen, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:10 (sixteen years ago)

._.;

― ☀☃ (am0n), Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:10 (sixteen years ago)

― sturkskogen, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

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