Martha and the Muffins - Trance and Dance
#405
October 1980
Martha and the Muffins
Trance and Dance
Genre: New Wave
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Luna Park
Symptomatic Love
M&M’s second record in one year is…more Saxy New Wave.
Herky and Jerky in all those delicious ways that has me wondering: why don’t we talk about Martha and the Muffins when we bring up New Wave? Not we in The Listening Post but “we” as a collective.
Also, and I know this is going to cause all sorts of slagging but, every few years or so there’s talk about the sudden rise of women in popular music. But, what we’ve been seeing in the 80s is a huge leap for women. Does that get talked about enough? I mean, sure, it seems that they will get shoved aside to make MTV space for Glam Metal (Which is men dressed as women) and Rap (which is replete with objectification of women) but, boy oh boy, the early 80s was filled with great, boundary pushing music by women and dammit, we need to applaud that more.
The playlist included only has about 75% of the album. You’d have to search the rest of the songs.
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