Mekons

[David Ayers]

Talk about the Mekons.

[Head Man]

Talk about the Mekons.

What...............from the Planet Meke?

[Hoppy T. Frog]

"Where were you" b/w "I'll have to Dance" is one of my favorite 45s ever, "The Quality of Mercy Is Never Strnen" is such an underrated album.

[AllenLowe]

interesting band, though I never was compelled to seek more.

[BillF]

The Mekon!

[ATR]

Mekons are a punk/country bar band for grown-ups. I don't know what they've been up to recently. Last I heard they were collaborating with visual artists and doing museum installations. I saw them several times in and around Central SQ in Cambridge MA years ago and they put on one of the best rock concerts I've ever seen touring behind their Rock and Roll album. Check out some of Jon Langford's solo records, too. Rock and Roll and So Good It Hurts are both outstanding releases. Don't look for virtuoso chops here, just really good band chemistry and sophisticated themes to the lyrics.

[David Ayers]

I came in late on Mekons when I bought Natural on CD in 2007. I know it is not 'typical' but I do understand its charm. A band more known by name than by its music, maybe? From Leeds, Yorkshire (my neck of the woods) but (part?) based in US, now (?). Natural was recorded in UK. Plenty on Spotify but I am as much interested in getting a feel for who/what they are and who is into them as I am into actually hearing all the records. My kind of band but when I used to play I entirely ignored them (even though people I played with referenced them...).

[jlhoots]

Fear & Whiskey is my favorite.

[A Lark Ascending]

They are much beloved by fRoots - they fit the particular angle of that magazine that sees folk-type music and punk as natural bedfellows.

Edited August 11, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[David Ayers]

I like the idiom of what I've heard - musically straightforward, rough feel, lyrically a kind of cynical, gnomic folk.

[A Lark Ascending]

[BFrank]

A friend turned me on to them several years ago. While I haven't see the Mekons themselves, I've seen Langford in various solo incarnations countless times. Never fails to entertain.

He's an accomplished artist, too. Exhibits and sells his work through the Yard Dog Gallery in Austin. Great little place, BTW, if you happen to be in that town. Also has amazing 'back yard' concerts during South by Southwest every year.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I don't care if there is a band called the Mekons; I always think of

"MAUDE SENIOR, ANGUS, MP AND THEN BARON. PRIVATE SCHOOL, OXBRIDGE, TORY PARTY. KNOWN AS THE MEKON BECAUSE OF HIS HEAD AND BECAUSE HE WAS AN UTTERLY HORRIBLE, SELFISH, OVERBEARING TORY BASTARD. ONE OF WHISKEY MAGGIE'S GUTLESS, GRASPING, PINSTRIPE SPIVS. DEAD, NOW, PRAISE GOD, AND ROASTING IN HELL." (http://mrishmael.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/all-tories-are-bastards.html)

MG

[robertoart]

He looks a bit like Rupert Murdoch.

[A Lark Ascending]

He needs to go to Specsavers for a better fitting.

[BillF]

I don't care if there is a band called the Mekons; I always think of

"MAUDE SENIOR, ANGUS, MP AND THEN BARON. PRIVATE SCHOOL, OXBRIDGE, TORY PARTY. KNOWN AS THE MEKON BECAUSE OF HIS HEAD AND BECAUSE HE WAS AN UTTERLY HORRIBLE, SELFISH, OVERBEARING TORY BASTARD. ONE OF WHISKEY MAGGIE'S GUTLESS, GRASPING, PINSTRIPE SPIVS. DEAD, NOW, PRAISE GOD, AND ROASTING IN HELL." (http://mrishmael.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/all-tories-are-bastards.html)

MG

Well, there certainly is a likeness!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I don't care if there is a band called the Mekons; I always think of

"MAUDE SENIOR, ANGUS, MP AND THEN BARON. PRIVATE SCHOOL, OXBRIDGE, TORY PARTY. KNOWN AS THE MEKON BECAUSE OF HIS HEAD AND BECAUSE HE WAS AN UTTERLY HORRIBLE, SELFISH, OVERBEARING TORY BASTARD. ONE OF WHISKEY MAGGIE'S GUTLESS, GRASPING, PINSTRIPE SPIVS. DEAD, NOW, PRAISE GOD, AND ROASTING IN HELL." (http://mrishmael.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/all-tories-are-bastards.html)

MG

Well, there certainly is a likeness!

Decidedly; I think it was Private Eye that noticed it first and dubbbed him 'The Mekon' and their cartoonists made great caricatures.

MG

Didn't The Mekon turn out to be a goodie, in the end? Where are the Dan Dare experts?

MG

[BillF]

I don't care if there is a band called the Mekons; I always think of

"MAUDE SENIOR, ANGUS, MP AND THEN BARON. PRIVATE SCHOOL, OXBRIDGE, TORY PARTY. KNOWN AS THE MEKON BECAUSE OF HIS HEAD AND BECAUSE HE WAS AN UTTERLY HORRIBLE, SELFISH, OVERBEARING TORY BASTARD. ONE OF WHISKEY MAGGIE'S GUTLESS, GRASPING, PINSTRIPE SPIVS. DEAD, NOW, PRAISE GOD, AND ROASTING IN HELL." (http://mrishmael.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/all-tories-are-bastards.html)

MG

Well, there certainly is a likeness!

Decidedly; I think it was Private Eye that noticed it first and dubbbed him 'The Mekon' and their cartoonists made great caricatures.

MG

Didn't The Mekon turn out to be a goodie, in the end? Where are the Dan Dare experts?

MG

Can't imagine him as a goodie. Wikipedia suggests he came to a nasty end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekon

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I don't care if there is a band called the Mekons; I always think of

"MAUDE SENIOR, ANGUS, MP AND THEN BARON. PRIVATE SCHOOL, OXBRIDGE, TORY PARTY. KNOWN AS THE MEKON BECAUSE OF HIS HEAD AND BECAUSE HE WAS AN UTTERLY HORRIBLE, SELFISH, OVERBEARING TORY BASTARD. ONE OF WHISKEY MAGGIE'S GUTLESS, GRASPING, PINSTRIPE SPIVS. DEAD, NOW, PRAISE GOD, AND ROASTING IN HELL." (http://mrishmael.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/all-tories-are-bastards.html)

MG

Well, there certainly is a likeness!

Decidedly; I think it was Private Eye that noticed it first and dubbbed him 'The Mekon' and their cartoonists made great caricatures.

MG

Didn't The Mekon turn out to be a goodie, in the end? Where are the Dan Dare experts?

MG

Can't imagine him as a goodie. Wikipedia suggests he came to a nasty end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekon

Interesting. There must have been some good Treens, then, and I'm getting confused. I used to lap up Dad Dare when I was ten or eleven.

MG

[JSngry]

This is Delta music, right?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This is Delta music, right?

Treen, not green

MG

[BillF]

Interesting. There must have been some good Treens, then, and I'm getting confused. I used to lap up Dad Dare when I was ten or eleven.

MG

As far as I remember - and 1951 is a long way away - the good people were a civilisation that lived in the southern hemisphere of the planet. I think a ring of fire separated them from the north where the Nazi-style Treens lived. Recalling this 60 years later shows I lapped it up, too!

[BillF]

Interesting. There must have been some good Treens, then, and I'm getting confused. I used to lap up Dad Dare when I was ten or eleven.

MG

As far as I remember - and 1951 is a long way away - the good people were a civilisation that lived in the southern hemisphere of the planet. I think a ring of fire separated them from the north where the Nazi-style Treens lived. Recalling this 60 years later shows I lapped it up, too!

P.S. The goodies were the Therons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therons

Edited August 11, 2012 by BillF

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I didn't know Dan Dare went back to 1950. I think it was '53 or '54 when I started reading Eagle.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

Many thanks. This thread is starting to make me feel young.