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AlphaGeeklifeDisc-oBeta: The Letter N

And so it goes. After the "M" cometh the "N". Set the ears of your peers to the dulcet tones of n-y 'n all "N" bands, performers, noise-makers, and tone-wranglers.

I N-joy Mike Ness, New Order, Klaus Nomi, Gary Numan, The New York Dolls, those Nuggets collections, New Bomb Turks, Nico, and prolly a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting...

How 'bout it?

Published Friday, February 23, 2007 4:52 PM by DeManda Tension

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# re: AlphaGeeklifeDisc-oBeta: The Letter N

Wow, haven't done one of these in a while...ditto all of Amanda's choices (well, I don't know much about Klaus Nomi) plus...

Naked Raygun - headliners of the first punk show I ever saw (May 17, 1991, I think). THROB THROB is my favorite of their records - weird how they combined Chi-punk lunkheadedness with sci-fi geekdom.

The Nerves - "When You Find Out" is one of my all-time favorite songs in any style, from any era, anywhere.

New Model Army - don't bother with their later pseudo-U2 pomposity, but their first album, VENGEANCE, is pretty interesting because it's so weird: driving hyperactive bass, fragments of guitar jangle, worked-up breathy folk-punk diatribing vocals. Look for the version of the album that appends their early singles.

Newtown Neurotics: warm, catchy socialist punk-pop, for when you want to listen to something like Billy Bragg but more rockin'. Any singles collection will do.

The Nips (aka the Nipple Erectors): Shane MacGowan's band before the Pogues. Mods and rockers and punks and teds unite to tap toes to infectious choons and Shane's vocal gurgle.

The Nightcrawlers: only ever heard "Little Black Egg" but that's plenty - an absolutely unassailable garage-rock standard.

Friday, March 02, 2007 10:01 AM by jasontoon

# re: AlphaGeeklifeDisc-oBeta: The Letter N

Nena - 99 Luftballoons is so much of a classic that I'd like to check out some of the other stuff they've done. Sadly, in all these years that I could have been checking them out, I never have.

Friday, March 02, 2007 1:13 PM by Mark Early
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