Paralysed: listening to Musicophilia's 1981 post-punk collection
It's ill-advised, wrongheaded and thoroughly foolhardy. Yep, listening to all 12 hours of Musicophilia's sprawling 1981 Post-Punk Box Set (2004) compendium of 231 songs and then trying to sum it all up in a puny little blog. Insanity. I'm not sure how I came across this impressive feat of post-punk compiling, but a few months ago I stumbled across it and thought, "Oh, OK, this is quite a serious endeavour. It's not just the usual suspects. This is worth a proper listen". And indeed, that's what happened. I bookmarked it and listened to it all the way through three or four times. You should do the same! A full half a day's worth of music. Two-hundred and thirty-one tracks from that golden year 1981. An in-depth survey of some of the best post-punk music (whatever post-punk may be). Regardless of your level of post-punk muso -ness, there's almost certainly going to be quite a lot of music here that'll interest you or that you'll simply en...
