Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women - The Judgment of Paris
#214
1981 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women
The Judgment of Paris
Genre: DIYWave
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
911
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Giovinezza
Private Sector
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Oh, hey! It’s a record by one guy calling himself an entire group but seemingly playing everything and it sounds like it.
But, dammit, it’s sort of lo-fi uber cool.
This is the co-producer of “Rock Lobster” who also worked with Pylon and, once you know that, his sound makes a ton of sense.
There’s a Cleaners from Venus meets Xex quality to a lot of it but also, the giddy wackiness of Sparks, (“Giovinezza”). This whole thing is filled with better songs than it deserves. They are all weird and ugly and terrific and I wish I had found this in a record bin in 1981. This would have been my go to for “you don’t know Kevin Dunn?!?!” superiority.
I imagine just how wonderful “Private Sector” would have been with access to more accomplished musicians and instruments and then I realize that I actually don’t want anything like that.
I want this to be as lo-fi as possible.
This was a time when this kind of experimentation was de rigeur.
Stick around for the entire thing, that synth “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is a treat.
But you have to recreate this album from this collection. It’s not hard but it requires looking it up on Discogs and doing the work. It was worth it.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-great-lost-songs-1979-1985/365330395
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