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Shock World Service #043:
'Genius is a Weapon' by Neil Higgins
This month's episode could perhaps be described as something of a time capsule piece, coming roughly 30 years after the Brixton riots. The social tension and mass unployment of the time was the background to which most of the music on this episode was recorded. The outside world at the time seemed to be full of confusion & danger: huger strikes, riots, hostages, assassinations, glue-sniffing & imminent nuclear wipeout. That paranoia & anger fed into the music, giving it this edge of urgency & anger.
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01 Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America’ (Intro) / The Cure - Three
02 Virgin Prunes - Ulakanakulot
03 David Byrne & Brian Eno - Regiment
04 James White & the Blacks - Irresistible Impulse
05 The Slits - Heard it Through the Grapevine
06 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
07 Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice
08 Japan - Ghosts
09 PiL - Death Disco
10 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Street 66
11 Rip, Rig & Panic - Storm the Reality Asylum
12 Sun Ra - Nuclear War
13 Cabaret Voltaire - Black mask
14 The Pop Group - Justice
15 A Certain Ratio - My Spirit
16. The Cure - M