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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- Debris "Static Disposal" 1976 (USA)
This one-off, outsider proto-punk album from Oklahoma is legendary because it was on the NWW list. But you know what else? WORT has PLEDGE DRIVES
where we ask for financial support, and we are one of the few radio
stations that will play music anything like this! (That PLEDGE link
works for donations anytime of the year - tell 'em Dave 3000 sent ya!)
So anyway, Debris is a totally obscure band and I've already told you
all the facts I know about them. So what does the record sound like?
Well, artsy punk rock with angular riffs, frenzied rockouts, weird
breakdowns, ranting and screaming, poetry recitations - i.e., when I
say "punk" I don't mean mohawked Sex Pistols, I mean TRULY antisocial noisemakers like Chrome, Suicide and the mystery metal of VON LMO. But all of the weird stuff on Static Disposal
has been done many times by many underground freaks over the postpunk
decades, so it doesn't sound that groundbreaking in 2018 BUT >>it
was recorded in 1976<< - We tend to think of the past as having
been simpler, unsophisticated times but what this album teaches me is
that there have been outsiders and weirdos making fascinating,
uncompromising music with an original vision in the shadows for a lot
longer than "indie rock" has been a concept. |
