Disco Zombies - Drums over London 7″
September 20th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Aaah! The artwork for Disco Zombies second release is one of the best, if not THE best artworks done in the history of punk rock. The scanning don’t do it justice, but no matter what, this is the way to do a wraparound sleeve, so take notice if you’re in a band and about to release a 7″. I’ve seen it in a greenish version as well but nothing says punk as much as pink, right?!
Drums over London is one of those perfect punk hits that grabs you gently by the throat and makes you walk around and sing the chorus for days on end, and admit that you want to hear it a few more times then the 32 times that are already in the song. Or maybe not as it would make the song slightly too long, which is my guess of what the bassist thought as well as he just gives up playing 3.23 into the song! Maybe he got lost in all his noodling?
Heartbeats love isn’t as immediately catchy, but at least the rhythm guitar manage to fuck up the intro in a very amusing way. I think I know why he played rhythm instead of lead… Well, a catchy chorus and a great and short outro makes it a minor hit at least.
I’m quite sure the label was named after the South Circular line in London and I have a feeling someone once said that one of the members had a record shop called South Circular as well. Someone from the UK should have more info about this band I guess.
Country: UK
Year: 1979
Label: South Circular
Format: 7″
Songs:
Drums over London.mp3
Heartbeats love.mp3
September 20th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Holy shit! Where has this record been hiding??? They truly don’t make them as catchy as this one…fucking brilliant!
September 21st, 2008 at 6:27 am
Great blog dude! Request for Mob 47’s Kärnvapen Attack
September 21st, 2008 at 8:26 am
Oi! Will post Crude SS in a couple of days. Cheers and up the punx!
September 21st, 2008 at 8:50 am
Drums Over London is sooo catchy up until 2.31. Suffer from the same dilemma as the Stereo Kiddies 7″. Thank god for the digital age where you can cut off a track to make it listenable.
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 am
2.31??? What kind of music do you think this is Peter? Punk songs are meant to be over 4 minutes! You’ve been brain washed by all those faster-faster-louder-shorter-songs Discharge clones you keep on hailing here. The punk movement was started by Phil and his friends in Genesis, that’s a fact!
PS. Please post Avskum’s Crucified by the system and some Moderat Likvidation DS.
September 24th, 2008 at 3:38 am
That’s great! I have a great track they also did called - “Where have You Been Lately Tony Hately?” which I taped off John Peel in the early 80s - where does that come from?
The South Circular refers not to a trainline but almost certainly to the lesser sister of the North Circular, a radial road that runs round the south of London’s inner city. See here for fascinating details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A205_road
Any further transport related queries - I’m your man….
The vocalist Dave Henderson was indeed the same Dave Henderson who wrote for Sounds music paper in the early to mid 80s and compiled that paper’s wildly inspirational “Wild Planet” guide that turned me on to Nurse With Wound, Industrial and noise music as a whole, experimantal + avant garde music; and the whole Recommended/ReR axis.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:32 am
That’s great! I have a great track they also did called - “Where have You Been Lately Tony Hately?” which I taped off John Peel in the early 80s - where does that come from?
The South Circular refers not to a trainline but almost certainly to the lesser sister of the North Circular, a radial road that runs round the south of London’s inner city. Any further transport related queries - I’m your man….
The vocalist Dave Henderson was indeed the same Dave Henderson who wrote for Sounds music paper in the early to mid 80s and compiled that paper’s wildly inspirational “Wild Planet” guide that turned me on to Nurse With Wound, Industrial and noise music as a whole, experimantal + avant garde music; and the whole Recommended/ReR axis.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Thanks for this. I have the single and have been meaning to find it and digitise it for ages. I bought in August 79 in Bodmin, Cornwall when on holiday from a really cool independent record shop run by enthusiasts, the like of which used to be in every big town, alas no longer.
Hearing it again after maybe 27 years was just fantastic and I sung along to the words which are even more relevant now.