Singleversity #62

Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness.

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By crook or by diff, we never seem to talk about them here, but it's obvious that the spectre of The Nation of Ulysses looms large over this blog. The thought crossed my mind listening again to 13-Point Program to Destroy America, their 1991 debut, earlier this week. Thanks to a long history of punk-rock love for documenting its own respective "revolutionary" movement, videos on YouTube are thankfully plentiful for the 'Nation; it's tricky pulling out the best one, so I went with a few songs clipped from DC's Sacred Heart Church in what appears to be late 1991, right around the time that Washington's musical climate hit maximum Dischord thanks to a Mount Pleasant police shooting and George Bush Sr.'s gag order on federal funding for abortion clinic counseling. Further reading: Dance of Days by Marks Andersen and Jacobs, respectively. You'll see what I mean about that meticulous documentation bit.

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As far as summer jamz go, Watussi's "If All We Had Was Love" is right up there this year. I feel like I've been spinning this thing on repeat for ages now, and you probably already know and love it too, but it wasn't so long ago (maybe a month?) that the group was freshly revealed as an offshoot for Hercules and Love Affair's Eric and Morgan Wiley, with Stickydisc helming the release of the 12" (A-side "Purple Moon" is pretty killer too, though less overtly Herculean). Shaw nuff, here we are on STD003 with promises beyond mere Babytalk. Wonder how long it'll take the Australian-based Watussi to go all DFA'79 on them, then.