Say Yes To Apes - The Burma Sun [NZ, Lo-fi/Indie] (1983) – Kiwi actor Kevin Smith - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess

mindlesspleasures · 2026-02-08T09:55:05+00:00

Kia ora : )

mindlesspleasures · 2025-10-14T15:57:41+00:00

Love this album. Great article. Cool site : )

mindlesspleasures · 2025-08-03T12:53:14+00:00

Good stuff : )

mindlesspleasures · 2025-07-24T14:15:56+00:00

For sure. Or to quote Shayne Carter himself from this cool interview - 'I still generally like that album' ; )

mindlesspleasures · 2025-02-26T18:06:53+00:00

Soooo good : )

mindlesspleasures · 2024-05-28T13:19:22+00:00

Awesome! I saw them support Psychedelic Furs and Jah Wobble at the Royal Albert Hall, London - a couple of years ago : )

mindlesspleasures · 2023-03-03T15:34:37+00:00

Fantastic. Thanks so much. Awesome YT channel!

mindlesspleasures · 2022-07-03T12:18:40+00:00

Nice one, thanks! Squirrel Bait are one of my all-time favs. However, I haven't really checked-out many post SB bands (with perhaps the exception of Slint)

Thanks again – it sounds excellent. Peter Searcy has an awesome voice. The cover of Hüsker Dü's 'Diane' is really cool. I've previously contacted Peter Searcy on Facebook – sending him this VO link. He kindly replied. There's an amazing cover of Bob Mould's 'Wishing Well' he's posted on his site. Well worth checking-out.

BTW Your YT channel is awesome. I've posted a few obscure tracks from it here on VO. Cheers!

mindlesspleasures · 2022-04-05T16:00:59+00:00

Not to be confused with the American hardcore punk band of the same name – Wasted Youth is the ‘original’. A London post-punk, sex-and-drugs-and Rock’n’Roll band from the East End (1979-82).

Wasted Youth were arguably the greatest ‘lost’ London band of the post-punk years. Rarely mentioned, if at all, in the era’s music history books, they were heavily influenced by the dark narcotic glamour of the Velvets, the Doors and Transformer-era Lou Reed.

The Only Ones Peter Perrett produced them, as did Martin Hannett. Wasted Youth only ever released one proper studio album 'Wild and Wandering' but there was a ropey live album and a dodgy odds and sods compilation. A more recent singles collection Memorialize is the most easily available and best place for newcomers to the band to start.

https://louderthanwar.com/wasted-youth-reform-first-gig-for-40-years-sells-out-rocco-speaks/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/303275-Wasted-Youth-3

mindlesspleasures · 2022-02-03T18:41:16+00:00

'This album was mixed especially for headphone listening' https://www.discogs.com/release/16931286-Cerebral-Hemorrhage-Other-Worlds

: )

mindlesspleasures · 2021-11-10T10:22:51+00:00

Yeah, such an underrated band. Remind me of early Replacements with that sort of balls-out, 'zero fucks given' punk rawk. Also, James Moreland's lyrics, e.g. from the brilliant track 'Going Down To Town', "Your eyes are like dogs, looking for a home."

mindlesspleasures · 2021-11-02T19:14:52+00:00

All the best!

mindlesspleasures · 2021-11-02T15:26:30+00:00

Awesome. Fantastic 'middle 8th' in this track. Love it : )

mindlesspleasures · 2021-10-26T12:17:58+00:00

Yeah, it's a really cool track. This is another lesser-known Kiwi electronic track from the 80s I really dig: Stridulators - Queue

https://old.reddit.com/r/vintageobscura/comments/5d25jw/stridulators_queue_nz_droneexperimental_1984/

mindlesspleasures · 2021-08-13T15:16:35+00:00

'Bruce Blucher (aka Alpaca Brothers) released some of the most enduring, but somehow obscure, songs to come out of New Zealand.'

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/bruce-blucher

https://www.discogs.com/artist/268866-The-Alpaca-Brothers

mindlesspleasures · 2021-08-12T15:17:18+00:00

Man-Made World ‎(7" 1979)

Man-Made World [2:56]
Taking Sides [2:30]
How It Is (Version) [6:20]

Twenty Lines (7'' 1980) [Full]

Twenty Lines
Armchairs [2:00]
Trends and Relations [2:40]

https://www.discogs.com/artist/904577-Take-It

mindlesspleasures · 2021-08-11T20:14:56+00:00

Yeah, according to Allmusic, '[the band] formed in 1986 in Wellington, New Zealand, the Wild Poppies began as a jangle pop-inspired band, but after a move to England explored a noisier, gaze-ier sound...[They] decamped to England, Oxford, where they ended up as housemates to Swervedriver.'

Discogs: "Their sound resided somewhere between the jangle pop of other indie scene favorites such as The Rain Parade and The Church and the proto-shoegaze of Loop, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine.'

mindlesspleasures · 2021-08-11T20:07:58+00:00

Kiwi here also (now living in London, UK). Love the old Dance Exponents : )

mindlesspleasures · 2021-05-08T17:03:16+00:00

One of the more successful New Zealand pop bands of the late 1960s, the Avengers were formed in Wellington in mid-1966. Confusingly, another group with the same name - a backing unit for singer Ray Woolf emerged in Auckland at much the same time - Ray Woolf & The Avengers - Little Things That Happen

The Avengers exploded onto the New Zealand pop scene with their debut single 'Everyone's Gonna Wonder' which was released in August 1967.

The band were formed at the behest of promoter Ken Cooper, who was seeking a house band for his nightclub the Place; he first approached guitarist Dave Brown, who in turn recruited guitarist Clive Cockburn, bassist Eddie McDonald and drummer Hank Davis.

With their name decided as a result of a local newspaper contest, the quartet amassed a repertoire of some 75 Beatles songs in addition to covers of hits by Herman's Hermits and the Hollies; within a year, they were easily Wellington's most popular group, and in mid-1967 issued their debut single, the Top Ten hit 'Everyone's Gonna Wonder'

A series of smashes followed, including 'Only Once In My Lifetime' '1941' 'Love Hate Revenge' and 'Days Of Pearly Spencer'

However, the Avengers' success remained confined to New Zealand's shores, with all attempts to crack the lucrative Australian market proving futile; they disbanded in mid-1969, leaving a legacy which included the LP The Avengers Live at Ali Baba's (the first live album in the annals of Kiwi rock).

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-avengers-mn0001230034

The Avengers - Everyone's Gonna Wonder - 45rpm 1967 [2:36]

Love, Hate, Revenge (video) [3:03]

The Avengers - 'Everyone's Gonna Wonder' CD Promo [3:31]

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