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Sweet Sweet Bulbs: Beefheart, Post Punk and Utopia

Mp3 podcast, 21mins. 2024.

A short extract from ‘Sweet Sweet Bulbs: Beefheart, Post Punk and Utopia’, a DIY podcast-style recording by Dr David Wilkinson, author of Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain and Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The podcast explores the links between Captain Beefheart, the 1960s counterculture and the post-punk movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. David looks at musical connections, the idea of rock music as art and the utopian energies of this era; the way it was driven by dreams of a better world.

Of the recording's rough sound quality, David claims: 'I wanted it to sound like those spontaneous taped interludes on Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica. I was also inspired by a quote from Mark E. Smith of cult Prestwich post-punk band The Fall. He once said that The Fall's music was roughly recorded because he wanted to encourage listeners to work at making sense of it. I love this idea and I think it's more relevant than ever now that our attention spans have come under attack by digital culture and social media.'
The backing track playlist:

1. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - 'Zig Zag Wanderer' (1967)
2. John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten interviewed on Capital Radio (1977)
3. Public Image Limited, 'Careering' (1979)
4. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Electricity' (1967)
5. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Sure 'Nuff Yes I Do' (1967)
6. Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart interviewed by David Letterman (1983)
7. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Wild Life' (1969)
8. Dadaist Hugo Ball's 'Gadji Beri Bimba' (1915) performed by Hanna Aurbacher, Teophil Maier, Ewald Liska 
9. Hugo Ball's 'Karawane' (1916) performed for the film Dada dir. Greta Deses (1967)
10. Delta 5, 'Mind Your Own Business' (1979)
11. The Fall, 'C 'n' C-S Mithering' (1980)
12. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Hair Pie: Bake 1' (1969)
13. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Frownland' (1969)
14. Don Cherry, 'Utopia and Visions' (1972)
15. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish' (1969)
16. This Heat, 'Paper Hats' (1981)
17. Gang of Four, 'I Found That Essence Rare' (1979)
18. Joy Division, 'Atmosphere' (1980)
19. The Raincoats, 'Animal Rhapsody' (1984)
20. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 'Sweet Sweet Bulbs' (1969)

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