Saturday, December 7, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Trotsky Icepick - Poison Summer

Trotsky Icepick - Poison Summer



#144/1309
April 1 1986
Trotsky Icepick
Poison Summer
Genre: Jangle Pop
3.75 out of 5


Highlights:
The Commissioner
Clowns on Fire (Version)
The Gaslight


Boy do I wish the rest of the songs were here. We’re missing four but who was this band? Weird that they were on SST, since I don’t associate SST with this kind of music. Maybe that was the problem. This is college radio alternative/indie and it needed that kind of push. This sound wasn’t really played out yet, although I think it disappeared rather quickly but, man, some of it is terrific. 
We don’t have enough to accurately judge, though. So much of this is instrumental live cuts and that just doesn’t show the whole story.
I liked what I heard. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hom2Ty_MG5o&list=PLBJ7ztNazTVDyiAUMD64egArU0p0LZMzI

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