There needed to be a gloomy, remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs written by th   [ read more ]

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Live album by legendary Postcard / post-punk Edinburgh band Josef K, recorded in Brussels on 8 April 1981 and London on 8 August 1981. All tracks are mixing desk recordings.

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There needed to be a gloomy, remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs written by th   [ read more ]

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Josef K's complete studio recordings can be had on two discs. Young and Stupid and The Only Fun in Town/Sorry for Laughing, both of which were reissued in 2002, tell the whole story, yet they were deleted by the time of Entomology's late 2006 release. The disc marks the first time anything Josef K-related has been released Stateside, and it passably packs the highlights. Half of the tracks are pulled from Sorry for Laughing (a 1980 album that initially didn't make it past the test-pressing   [ read more ]

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Expanding on a previous Japanese-only release, Rare Live -- by combining the original ten-song early-1981 show on that effort with a further, not-as-well-recorded, ten-song session half a year later, Crazy to Exist -- gives the self-respecting Josef K fanatic one further release to hit the shops. Both shows were quite brief, as preserved here -- half an hour each -- but that's perfectly in keeping with the spend-no-more-time-than-needed ethos of the band, who likely would have regarded any invitati   [ read more ]

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