Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Politicians in My Eyes

Listening... Catbirdseat posts the 1975 punk rarity, "Politicians in My Eyes" by the band Death. Death was a pre-Bad Brains trio of Detroit black dudes who moved from R&B to punk and cut just a few songs in 1975-1976. This is rare and great stuff, well worth the download and pursuit of the Drag City compilation of Death's mid-70s work. Politicians in my eyes... awesome.

3 comments:

esinclai said...

After I heard them playing the Drag City disk in my local emporium, I did a quick google and found that Chunklet had posted both sides of the original 7 inch

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=358

And then the next day the NYT had an article

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15rubi.html

I still need to go pick up the full length, but it's on the list.

MT said...

What a Gemisch. Hendrix, Stooges...Air Supply?

helmut said...

Thanks for the links, Eric.