Pop Will Eat Itself, Then Regurgitate
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
I used to have this habit of listening to the radio ’til about 2 in the morning with the tape deck running. There was a reason for the tape deck: once you get tired enough, all kinds of things start to sound good that wouldn’t when you’re wide awake. So I got in the habit of taping when I listened late. If it still sounded good the next morning, I’d explore further.
One night in 1990, it was like some odd planetary alignment. Song after song would come on, and for every artist I already knew and liked, there’d be another by a band that I just had to hear more of. One track I heard that night was “Dance of the Mad Bastards,” by some band called Pop Will Eat Itself. When the PWEI track gave me the same adrenaline rush in broad daylight that it had the night before, I decided to hear more. (more…)