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[now-playing] - let's active - cypress - 1984
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Let's Active - Every Word Means No
11/12/24.
About once a month I run across a release like The Vines "Walk The Floor" - a band who released an album decades ago who now are posting the album on Bandcamp.
The Vines (Montclair, New Jersey) originally released "Walk The Floor" back in 1988 and it definitely has a 1980s jangle reminiscent of R.E.M or Let's Active. But there were so many other bands from the era that jangled comparably yet have been forgotten. We've covered a few over the years - The Wilmas, and The Wind, come to mind. Add The Vines to that list.
This also jangles like Downy Mildew or any number of bands on the Strum & Thrum compilation. The Vines played at Maxwell's (Hoboken) during the same era as fellow Hobokenites The Feelies and Yo La Tengo (who also jangled back in the 1980s). Best of all, this was produced by Mitch Easter. This was originally released by Hoboken based label Aquablue Records.
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The L&T @kjuw89 and I tend to listen to the music of our young adult years and when this song came on I said “puppies!” and she didn’t think she’d ever seen the video, so here you go.
Listed: The Reds, Pinks & Purples
Glenn Donaldson turned his Listed contribution around to us in what has to be record time.
“I am a music nerd list PhD, I am on it,” he said and a couple of hours later it was in our inbox. This is hardly surprising, though, given his musical modus operandi. From the Y2K dawning of the Jewelled Antler collective to this year’s collaborations with Jem Fanvu (Vacant Gardens) and Jeremy Earl (Painted Shrines), the latter of which was reviewed by Dusted, he’s simply been involved in too many projects to mention here. Donaldson’s main focus at the moment is the self-described “DIY kitchen pop” that he’s been cranking out as the Reds, Pinks & Purples. The project’s third album, Uncommon Weather, was released by Slumberland in April and is full of 80's indie-tinted songs with “soft-edged, yearning melodies shaded with minor-key regrets,” as Dusted’s Jennifer Kelly put it in her write up. The Reds, Pinks & Purples initially caught the attention of Spanish label Pretty Olivia Records back in 2019, when Donaldson first started slipping singles out onto his Bandcamp page. The resulting debut Anxiety Art, which has since fallen out of print, is available again thanks to Tough Love Records (UK). Dusted readers will also be interested to learn that Donaldson started a music column, Failure Of All Pop, this year that features short reviews of otherwise passed-over current favs, and which puts his PhD to good use. Below is the list that he made for Dusted.
Intro by Chris Liberato
Let’s Active --- Every Word Means No (Afoot, 1983)
