Yautja, "The Spectacle" Yautja are chameleons with different styles coming to the fore in their albums, but this song is also kind of a chameleon. There's some heavy noise rock here, some grind-y bits, but with those sections kind of distinct here, shifting between them...
Leatherface, "Mush" Well, we're back at Leatherface, and I once again confront my opinion that this basically sounds just like late 80s/early 90s southern California punk, except for the vocals. And I'm not wild about the vocals. We need to get Dave Smalley involved...
9353, "East of Sudan" This is really pretty avant-garde for the punk scene of 1984. I mean, sure, there were plenty of post-punk bands working in kind of adjacent spaces, but this is still pretty far out there. Imarhan, "Ehad Wa Dagh" We've had Imarhan...
Earth Wind & Fire, "Help Somebody" There are several bands that I really only knew from later radio hits that were on when I was a kid. So, to me, they were just these bands that had some corny hits that I didn't think much about....
