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Watch Certain Ratio's Shack Up. It's a good question, and one reason why their now-rare live appearances are greeted like glimpses of.
On this date in 1980, A Certain Ratio released their second single, ' Shack Up'. It was backed by a live version of ' And Then Again'.
Neither song appeared on a regular album. The B side was released in studio version as the B side of their third single, ' Flight'. ' Shack Up' has been released several times. The second time it was released was in 1981 in an EP called The Double 12' which consisted of seven songs. The Manchester, England post-punk band, who recorded for the legendary Factory Records, still records and performs.Wikipedia:Official Website:Video:Blogload.
About The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party (The P5) was a radio show that aired every Saturday night on 88.7FM WVHC (now WRHU) Radio Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. Back in 1978, it was among the first stations in the U.S. To play the 'New Wave' of music that arose from the ashes of Punk Rock. Other college radio stations caught the wave, followed by some major commercial stations like: 101.9 WPIX N.Y, 92.7 WLIR N.Y, 106.7 KROQ L.A, 91.1 91X San Diego, 105.7 The Quake San Francisco and others. This blog is a tribute to all of the great music of that era. We listened on cassette and vinyl, we danced to it at nightclubs, we saw the bands before they were famous, we got weird haircuts, we dressed in strange clothes.
We were part of a music scene. That scene is back. It's right here online.
Possibly my best-ever charity shop find, this magical slice of frequently sampled P-funk, released in the UK in 1976, connects back to in being a track which A Certain Ratio covered and issued as a single themselves in 1980, and which surely had a formative influence on their sound.
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