Friday, April 10, 2020

The 1986 Listening Post - The Three Johns - The World By Storm

The Three Johns - The World By Storm


#595 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
1986 Housekeeping
The Three Johns
The World By Storm
Genre: road music for your nightmares
4.75 out of 5

Highlights:
Sold Down the River
Torches of Liberty
Atom Drum Bop
The World By Storm

Not like dark and scary nightmares. More like, fucking, there’s a flame beast attacking the nearby village and I’m trying to swim but I can’t with all these Oreos!!
Obviously that was inspired by the cover to this record but, that’s cuz these guys know what they’re doing. Hell, one of them is a founding Mekon. So, he should. 
This is the grown up version of They Might Be Giants after they’ve lost their virginity and had a few drinks. 
With a dash of Adam Ant and John Lydon and Bowie and Numan and a host of other influences swirling around in there. 
There isn’t a bad track on this thing. And the fact that no one knows it exists...I give it an extra. 5 just for that.  
Fucking extraordinary. 

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