This mix is the exact opposite of calm. If you need an energy boost - here it is. Anxious, itchy, scratchy, manic, jittery Post-Punk songs. But also funky, taut, melodic, and incredibly catchy.
I was listening to Fire Engines recently and wondered if there’s anything, anywhere near as good as their song “Get Up and Use Me”. So, I racked my brain and came up with over 60 tracks, which I whittled down to the 30 here. Few match the catchiness and anxious energy of “Get Up and Use Me”, but the rest come close. Anyway, here’s a 3 liter bottle of Coke in musical form. Chug.
Cabaret Voltaire - Jazz the Glass
The Fall - Fiery Jack
The Red Krayola - Dairymaid's Lament
Grow Up - River
Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me
The Desperate Bicycles - Advice on Arrest
The Clean - Billy Two
Wipers - Telepathic Love
Swell Maps - Another Song
No Trend - Cancer
Huggy Bear - Shaved Pussy Poetry
The Fall - Prole Art Threat
DNA - Not Moving
Malaria! - Geh Duschen
Pere Ubu - Cloud 149
Contortions - Designed to Kill
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns
Minutemen - Self-Referenced
Abwärts - Computerstaat
The Ex - $
Dog Faced Hermans - Scottish Block
The Pop Group - Blind Faith
A Certain Ratio - Faceless
James - Just Hip
Spherical Objects - If I Can Choose (Oh Babe)
Wire - Stepping Off Too Quick
ESG - Chistelle
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
The Red Crayola - Micro-Chips & Fish
The Crainium - Your Penis, It Is Tiny, and It Can Not Spell
Image: detail of a photo of Fire Engines live
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