D.I.Y.: The Modern World - UK Punk II (1977-78)

despite being a new yorker I was always a bit UK-centric and like, didn't really get into the Talking Heads until well after I was a decent UK DIY type collector and it's pretty shocking to realize how much great post-punk is a reflection of that. Like uk post-punk is the influence or dub, reggae, jazz, funk, disco, krautrock etc into and w/ punk energy, but also the influence of Talking Heads, Television, No Wave, Pere Ubu etc.

so much of my historical perspective/ignorance/listening is right on this line and like i know maybe enough to see all the 76-78 divergence/coalition going on in uk music and i am AMAZED by all the cross pollination going on in there. so i end up getting super fascinated by like, what is monochrome set really doing in here at all? how would blitz kids even get spun off it? how is an outlier like bill nelson out there? (last two is just bowie lol)? why was american band friends of this uk band and went over, but not aware of usa band who did stuff more like themselves?

and looking at uk stuff i am always amazed how all them ppl knew/interacted with each other, so much more intensity

well UK is much smaller than US, and a lot of that US stuff came out on big labels like Sire and was promoted well. Then it's a question of what Rough Trade would have imports of?

D.I.Y.: Teenage Kicks - UK Pop I (1976-79)