The third and last release from The Disco Zombies shows a new, minimal direction for the band (and once again killer art work), and might just fit here right after Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons. Here come the buts don’t really do it for me as it drags on for too long, but the b-side song about the Great rock n’ roll swindle celebrity Mary Millington sure does as it’s way catchier. I think good old Mary was in a few other movies as well, but I’m sure all you older UK blokes here remember her best from the Sex Pistols cash-in flick, right?
A short post about long songs for people with short attention span.
Country: UK
Year: 1980
Label: Dining out
Format: 7″
Songs:
Here come the buts.mp3
Mary Millington.mp3
Thank you for the new post. Although you can feel it was coming close to the end of the line for these lads, it is still not too bad. It felt as though they were losing interest. Thanks.
YOu keep deleting my comments…hmmm
It’s funny, I feel like you’ve got the descriptions of the songs exactly backwards. The b-side is a bit draggy, but that a-side is great, love that insistent beat and the fuzzed-out guitar waves.
Regardless, nice post, thanks a lot. I was just listening to the other Disco Zombies stuff earlier today and thinking it’d be great to hear some more from them; perfect timing!
Me like all three Disco Zombies singles. This might be my least favourite, but it’s still damn fine.
Hi Ed,
I didn’t realize that Mary Millington was actually longer than Here come the buts until I ripped the record, so in my opinion my descriptions are the correct one ;)
well that#s no match to their previous releases… is it?
It is a really really good record – far better than “Drums over London” – dare I say …
The guitar in Mary Millington reminds me of Wall of Voodoo…
I’d say they’d be super hard pressed to beat either of the other two singles. Huzzah!
Mary is most remembered for being in Dirty Mags more than anything else in the uk…
Always find the Disco Zombies overrated.
After a song like “Drums Over London” ,they set the high-water mark for a brilliant 1970´s Punk song quite high,so that they only could lose with any of the other songs they recorded. The band,btw,according to the “45 REVOLUTIONS” encyclopedia ,had real bad luck with their record-labels,as all of their 3x 7″s came out with a long delay.
In the late 1980´s,German´s TRUE Punks EA 80 played a show a few miles away from my hometown in a rural place´s Youth-Centre and made a GREAT re-make of “Drums Over London” on-stage. Not many (German) bands would be able to make such a great remake of that D.Z. classic- IMO.
I saw Disco Zombies in 77 with Andy singing(before Dave joined)other bands playing that night were Merv septic and the discharge,Teenage Spots,Dead Fly Syndrome,The Biggots,Foamettes,The Blaizers(dave Hendersons band)Robin Banks and the Payrolls featuring The Wads and The Wallettes and Raw Deal.Dave reviewed it in Leicesters fanzine Leicesters Biggot.The music scene in Leicester was pretty good at that time.Other bands to come thru included The Pokers,Clockwork Soldiers,Wendy Tunes,Jeannie Phoenix and The X Men,and later Abandoned Babies,The Sinatras,Bomb Party and il ya Volkswagens.