The New York punks-turned-metallers were best known for their live shows, where destruction was the name of the game.
Jean Beauvoir (with the Plasmatics) – “Squirm” (1981)īassist/guitarist Jean Beauvoir’s towering blond mohawk became as much of a visual trademark of the Plasmatics as frontwoman Wendy O. Their debut single, “Moody,” still sounds as fresh and mysterious as it did when it was released. ESG’s rhythm tracks made them one of the most sampled acts of all time, and they returned to action in the new millennium to show the kids what they’d missed. When Factory Records impresario Tony Wilson signed them, it forged a crucial link between British new wave and American R&B.
Their minimalist funk-hypnotic grooves mostly stripped down to their bass, drums and vocal chassis-became an underground sensation. The four Scroggins sisters (plus Tito Libran) wowed the music world on both sides of the Atlantic in the early ’80s. Read more: 10 new songs from black artists who should already be on your playlists X-Ray Spex – “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” (1977) appeared in 2015, and the “life-after-death” puns were both irresistible and warranted. The trio’s lone existing album was released on Drag City, and the band reformed with Lambsbread guitarist Bobbie Duncan replacing David, who died in 2000. The brothers wanted to put a positive spin on the tragedy and the word “death.”)Īfter decades of near obscurity, Death were rediscovered in 2009.
(It was a tribute to their father, who had died in an accident. Death created a link between garage rock and punk with their 1975 single, “Politicians In My Eyes.” They put it out themselves after a Columbia Records executive couldn't convince them to change their name. The three Detroit brothers switched their style from R&B to rock when the Who blew their minds. Death were Bobby, David and Dennis Hackney, who started playing music after seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Here’s one of the most improbable resurrections of all time.
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