Pick the best track on 'Fame - Jon Savage's Secret History of Post-Punk 1978-81'

I'm surprised at how few of these I know tbh

That's because it's a secret history!

I mean there are some big names on there but it's their more obscure tracks

I appreciate your efforts to prevent Rema Rema erasure in these days of Rave & Roses

I do like Rema too. Maybe we need a TS: Rema v Rema Rema thread

Or maybe we don't

All of the tracks I'm familiar with on this album - maybe a bit less than half of them - are great, so it's a tough choice. Yay @ the Cabs' pick - coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome coombackhome...

AC Marias, that track is a wonder

I hadn't realised that A.C. Marias had been releasing music that early. Only aware of her material from the end of the decade.
Do wish I could get hold of a remastered version of One of Our Girls cos i did love that record.
looks like she was actually working with members of Wire in the early 80s not just covering them.
So need to check this earlier stuff out

I have the original version of this comp which was released in 2012 and has a slightly different track listing. The Flying Lizards aren't on it but there are tracks by This Heat and Judy Nylon.

Going to relisten before voting - most of the album available on Spotify and Apple.

Great compiler I think - just picked up his 72-76 and 77-79 doubles from Ace, which are way less at the secret end of things.

I hadn't realised that A.C. Marias had been releasing music that early. Only aware of her material from the end of the decade.
Do wish I could get hold of a remastered version of One of Our Girls cos i did love that record.
looks like she was actually working with members of Wire in the early 80s not just covering them.
So need to check this earlier stuff out

She was Bruce Gilbert's partner at the time. She has a track on the first Dome album and contributes vocals to the third album. Drop/So was a single, recorded at the 154 sessions I think? She was also a member of the one off group, P'o, with Gilbert and Lewis et al.

The AC Marias album is great but some of the drum programming dates it badly.

Ok so hang on..

Is this coming out to 'compete' with "Symbols Crashing Everywhere", a 'post punk' 2cd compilation put together by um hang on.....

AC Marias, DNA, Mars, Implog, Thomas Leer & Robert Rental and Rema Rema all vying for my vote.

gonna go... Implog

symbols crashing isn't purely post-punk tho, unless post-punk includes sheila b devotion and prince far i

Not purely, but it is a 2cd

It was the Nigel Simpkins track that made me pause ..

The AC Marias album is great but some of the drum programming dates it badly.

it does but it doesn't spoil it for me. i listened to it again an awful lot during the first lockdown and noticed it seems to have become a lot more sought after in recent times. i wonder if mute will reissue it, which reminds me that they were going to reissue Anita Lane's 'Dirty Pearl' but it has never appeared....?

prince far i is a post-punk icon yet not post punk.

just like me

I'm going AC Marias because I'm a sucker for dubby post-punk

How true xpost

Shall I do the killers joke now?

Right:

“I’m post punk but I’m not a punker…”

I was obsessed with AC Marias a few years ago even found a copy of the hard to find P’o CD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcxQzl15LI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99S7aaDnv0k

this is an impossible choice ...

between Mars, Noh Mercy, Chrome, Leer/Rental, and Joy Division ... and DNA ... and ... this is like being shown a box of adorable kittens and being asked to pick the cutest kitten

I love the Urinals but this isn’t their best track

Went with Pere Ubu - absolutely love those early records and this is one of my favorites:

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

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Nice. Here's a performance from a great live album they put out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISt3uUxnd8

missed the poll. Might have voted for Rema Rema

A landslide. Heart of Darkness is one of Pere Ubu's better known tracks right?

It's in their top ten, yeah