All those years of making mix tapes or mix Cd's one of the constant tracks I seem to always go back to is this song by The Mekons. I picked it up in Blackpool in late 79 after hearing it played on the John Peel show, well I'm assuming it was that show because at the time I wasn't familiar with it but there was just so much good stuff being played song after song I was almost dizzy. The day had been driving around in the car listening to the normal hits played on the radio with all this rabbiting on in between songs. Sounded novel to our ears but the music wasn't very exciting though they did play the odd Jam or Undertones song. Then late in the night driving through the cold all this amazing stuff I'd never heard of came coming on. And the presenter was very dry. Surely I was listening to the John Peel show. The legendary show. Anyway apart from California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys the other song that blasted me away was this one.
I bought the single and for some reasons it's the only Mekons track I have. And I never sought it out on Cd.. so I just play the 7 inch. In the 90s I invested in a mini disc recorder and copied all my vinyl onto mini discs. Used it at the Lizard lounge so I didn't have to carry 100s of records. Then it was all CD. Last time I DJed it was all on my laptop.
Where were You still sounds as powerful today as it did then. A brilliant record.
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