#32/1199
1986 Housekeeping
Agitpop
Back at the Plain of Jars
Genre: Punk/Alternative
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Statement From a Dead Passerby
What Am I to You?
Funky Town
The Message From the Tundra
What Is It About
Punk in the 80s either goes full on thrash or makes that hard left turn into Bad Brains/Minutemen territory. Never succumbing to the obnoxious temptations of RHCP’s faux sexy ideas, instead Agitpop holds on to the political aesthetic while embracing all that the bass and drums can offer.
We need bands like Agitpop in the 21st Century. Where are they?
This is the kind of music that comes out of a lower east side club at 1 in the morning when most people have gone home and there’s just 4 people left and the band is really just playing for themselves because they have to. They just have to.
(The album is nestled in this collection. Tracks 1-14 and 28)
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