Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

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http://www.easyaction.co.uk/index.php?page=releasepage.php&rel=20 

CERTAIN GENERAL, one of the most startling but under-
rated groups to emerge from post-punk New York City,
release a 2-CD career retrospective on Easy Action called
'Invisible New York'.

The group formed in 1980 and built a fearsome underground
reputation seducing the city's major clubs, including
CBGB's, the Mudd and Danceteria, with their intoxicating
blend of spikey rhythms, surreal lyrical flights and
psychedelic surf guitar onslaughts which drew comparisons
with everyone from the Velvet Underground and Doors to
the Birthday Party.

Certain General carried on releasing records until the
21st century in different incarnations but, although
being hailed as 'the best independent rock band in the
United States' during the 80s, never received the
attention afforded on other names from that time. Bad
luck, trouble and an admitted tendency to 'shoot
ourselves in the foot', left the group with a wealth of
brutally beautiful musical diamonds in their vaults but
no place in the history books. 'We're like the invisible
band,' says leader, songwriter and singer Parker DuLany,
the only constant member since the band's formation.
Hence the title.

The compilation draws from past releases such as 'Holiday
Of Love', 'November's Heat', 'These Are The Days',
'Introduction To War' and 'Cabin Fever', as well as live
recordings from CBGB's and NY's Public Theatre in 2001,
radio broadcasts and a previously-unreleased session with
Lenny Kaye and Julee Cruise recorded in the wake of 9/11.


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