RADIO LONDON
“Everyone’s an Exit”
(Mississippi 1984)
Familiarity Breeds Contempt might be the best album title ever. In most of America, it was an absolute struggle to be an underground band in 1980. If there were any new wave kids in your town, their music absolutely had to come from England. Nothing good came from America, except maybe Talking Heads.
1984 in Mississippi = 1980 everywhere else.
Big Monkey Records made this compilation to establish the Jackson scene as a worthy rival to Athens or Nashville. The Windbreakers were already well-known but their songs here had been released on other records. Beat Temptation actually managed to make it to play in NYC once or twice, but all the rest of the bands here promptly disappeared.
The album came with no insert and zero band information.
Jeff Lewis fronted Radio London after he quit the Windbreakers. There’s supposed to be a 45 out there somewhere but I never found a copy.
- Download “Everyone’s an Exit”
(Familiarity Breeds Contempt - Big Monkey Records LP 009)
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July 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
It’s funny that this record has come up in conversation on a couple of occasions lately. I seem to recall that Radio London did a double-45 (which I probably have somewhere).