Jukebox Shuffle 1982-1986

Tracklist:
Jukebox Shuffle 1982
1 Die Dancing Bears: New York Valentine (7”)
2 Chrome: Fire Bomb (7”)
3 Gods Gift: Discipline (7”)
4 A Certain Ratio: Funaezekae (12”)
5 Duet Emmo: Or So It Seems (12”)
6 The Fall: The Classical
7 The Fall: Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
8 Danielle Dax: Bed Caves
9 Love Of Life Orchestra: Siberia
10 Five Or Six: Rushes (12”)
11 Colin Newman: 1,2,3 Beep Beep
12 Colin Newman: Safe
13 Monte Cazazza: Sex Is No Emergency (7”)
14 John Cale: Close Watch
15 Robert Wyatt: Ship Building (7”)
16 Laurie Anderson: Big Science (7”)
17 Virgin Prunes: Down The Memory Lane (2x10”)
18 Ned Sublette: I Ain’t Afraid Of Girls
19 Jill Kroesen: I’m Sorry I’m Such A Weenie
20 Einsturzende Neubauten: Zum Tier Machen (live)

Jukebox Shuffle 1983
1 Dave Ball & Genesis P. Orridge: Sincerity
2 The Residents: The Moles Are Coming (12”)
3 Portion Control: Crash Weight Gain (12”)
4 The Golden Palominos: Cookout
5 Rock Steady Crew: Hey You Version (7”)
6 Yello: I Love You
7 Husker Du: Real World (Blasting Concept 12”)
8 Black Flag: I’ve Heard It Before (BC 12”)
9 Minutemen: Boiling (BC 12”)
10 Mark Stewart & The Maffia: Liberty City
11 Mark Stewart & The Maffia: The Paranoia Of Power
12 Geisterfahrer: Neue Liebe
13 Der Plan: Die Letzte Rache (excerpt)
14 Der Plan: Die Letzte Rache (excerpt)
15 Vorgruppe: Das Sehen Nach Dem Schein (12”)
16 Tuxedomoon: No Tears (12”)
17 SPK: A Heart Breaks in No Time or Place
18 Psychic TV: Eden
19 Laurie Anderson & William S. Burroughs: Sharkey’s Night
20 Rhys Chatham: The Out Of Tune Guitar No. 2
21 Rhys Chatham: Cadenza

Jukebox Shuffle 1984-1986
1984
1 Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five: Step Off (7”)
2 Arto Lindsay: Venus Lost Her Shirt
3 Arto Lindsay: Locus Coroleus
4 Danielle Dax: Hammerheads
5 Shockheaded Peters: I Bloodbrother Be (12”)
1985
6 Doug E. Fresh: The Show (12”)
7 Click Click: Sweet Stuff (12”)
8 The Ex: White Liberals
9 The Jesus & Mary Chain: Never Understand (12”)
10 Sonic Youth: I Don’t Want To Push It (1982)
1986
11 Junkyard Band: The Word/Sardines
12 Public Enemy: You Gonna Get Yours
13 Big Black: Jordan, Minnesota
14 Sonic Youth: Green Light
15 The Ex: Ay Carmela (2x7”)
16 Melvins: Grinding Process
17 Wire: A Serious Of Snakes (12”)
18 Coil: Blood From The Air

When I did the Jukebox Shuffle series last year I promised to quit after the 1981 edition, fed up with that eighties music and discovering that post-punk really lost its magic after 1981. From then on pop-culture diverted in too many different directions. Some of them turned out interesting (hip hop, electro), some of them disappointing (new wave synthpop, goth). Many records I have bought back then bore or irritate me now. Last week my friend Fred de Vries published his book Club Risiko. De jaren tachtig toen en nu [Club Risk. The Eighties Then and Now]. It is a wonderful book in which Fred – former guitar player of Dutch punk-rock band Zero Zero and now a journalist living in South- Africa – relives the eighties and rethinks his favourite bands of that era: Einsturzende Neubauten (Berlin), Sonic Youth (New York), Laibach (Ljubljana), Crass (London), The Ex (Amsterdam) and Koos (Johannesburg). The book is also a trip through the global village. He makes a journey along the mentioned cities, interviews and portrays his one time heroes at large, and evaluates their contribution to global (underground) culture. It is also a book about lost and found inspirers, about illusions and disappointments, about ideals and harsh realities. If you read Dutch, you should get a copy. Anyway, the book was presented in The Chielerie at Amsterdam (11 may 2006) and Fred asked me to spin post-punk eighties records. I decided I could not stop in 1981 now and dug up more eighties records. A selection of the 7”s, 12”s and albums I picked out are summarized here within three more volumes of the Jukebox Shuffles (1982-1986). It reveals several aspects of my former taste. I still bought post-punk records in 1982, but more and more American art and avant-garde music caught my attention. Perhaps my favourite record of the year was ANTARCTICA, a collection of New York artists like the Love of Life Orchestra, Jill Kroesen, Rhys Chatham, Ned Sublette, Peter Gordon and David van Tieghem. In 1983 I started to like early electro/break/hip hop records, both popular (Rock Steady Crew, Yello) and more weird (Portion Control, Golden Palominos). The best album of that year was, I think, Mark Stewart and the Maffia’s LEARNING TO COPE WITH COWARDICE - awesome, just listen to those great reggae tracks I have included in the mix. And there was the BLASTING CONCEPT compilation by SST, featuring Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Black Flag and Husker Du, to name a few. The Americans apparently took over post-punk. The last part (1984-86) shows the break through of hip hop in my house, features some great American bands (Steve Albini’s Big Black!), the birth of Grunge (Melvins) and the return of Wire. Perhaps I should have included more Sonic Youth songs, but they are so overexposed today, you don’t miss them here. One of my classic albums of 1984 is former DNA’s Arto Lindsay first solo-album, entitled ENVY (with Anton Fier of The Feelies on drums). This Jukebox Shuffle 1982-1986 gives a pretty good impression of that particular period - again, from my point of view. Halfway the eighties I was fascinated more and more by hip hop, post-rock, electronic reggae and more obscure electronic stuff. Indeed, it is no longer possible to describe this mix as a genuine post-punk collection, but it does offer some signs of the times. Call it post-post-punk. Cheers!

* Club Risiko: http://winkel.bruna.nl/Auteurs_op_Alfabet/V/Vries,044_F,046_de/9038874588.htm