Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma CD/DVD
SKU
04-OLE732
Posthumous, live third album - their weirdest - by the best US post-punk band that I know of - think of Gang of Four, but not English. This is great stuff on its own and it's also where half of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic came from when Burma collapsed.
"The posthumous album, originally released in 1984, has never been available on CD until now. Re-mastered and restored to its correct sequence with three bonus tracks. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. DVD Features: Live at the Bradford Ballroom, Boston, March 12, 1983 (their final show - evening show)"
"Combining rock 'n' roll's traditional fetish for pure, unmediated feeling, with a more modern sort of artistic calculation, Burma's music could evoke everything from the Beatles' ecstatic run of Hamburg rock clubs in the early 60s to the lightning-speed hardcore punk that was developing in the US during Burma's tenure. In this sense, Burma can be said to have blithely encapsulated punk's overarching mission: to draw a line connecting rock rebels past and present, and, in doing so, re-imagine and re-establish the music's anarchic condition" - Salon.com.
- Format TypeNTSC
- Region CodingAll Region
- LabelMatador