The headline is not misleading. There is a 1980 cassette comp only Buzzcocks song down there. But that's not the real reason for this post. I'd originally intended to make it about Liliput, the band formerly known as Kleenex. After hearing them for the first time in years I couldn't help but think about them in context with the time. Their song "Eisiger Wind" is from 1980. At that time, punk rock was beginning to evolve, or devolve depending on how you look at it. To generalize, punk rock sort of split into three types, straight punk, hardcore, and post-punk, the latter being where all the oddball shit was haphazardly assigned. That's where you could see Liliput being put. I started to think of all of the different bands that weren't punk rock, hardcore, or even new wave. That was a good era, all things considered. Early eighties, before brightly colored new wave came in and took a big ol' dump on things. So, yeah, I started to dig in at Killed By Death, looking at records that were released in 1980. Bam! First one I see, the cassette comp with the Buzzcocks song. Running across an obscure Buzzcocks song from 1980 is about as close as you're going to get to finding a lost Spiral Scratch outtake. I'll take it, along with the other song on the post, a Subway Sect obscurity. Yee haw.
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