Trouser Press, August 1983
Insect Surfers, Barricade Beach
The Source, Workin' on a Dream
This is the last of my full-color
Trouser Press flexi discs, and we're going out on a somewhat obscure
note.
It's a split affair, containing a track
each by Insect Surfers and The Source.
The Source were from Akron/Cleveland.
Not sure if they knew Pere Ubu or Devo growing up, but they were
definitely on a similar post-punk tip.
I can't find a copy of the song
featured on this flexi, but see below for a video of the excellent
Keypunch Operator. These guys were Gang of Fouring the Gang of Four
before Franz Ferdidand ever soiled a nappie.
Insect Surfers started in DC back in
the summer of 1979, and are still around today (!)-- they bill
themselves now as “Planet Earth's longest running modern surf
band.”
Their track on this lemon-yellow disk is called
“Barricade Beach” and it's kind of redolent of Blotto. Except for
the fact that you don't feel the overwhelming urge to punch Insect
Surfers in the head, which was the only sane and reasoned response to
Blotto...