The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

New Wave

  • 3AM Eternal: The Go-Go’s “Turn To You” (1984)

      The upbeat “Turn To You,” the second single taken from The Go-Go’s  sophomore album, Talk Show, was bittersweet; it was a more mature, grown-up, sophisticated style, yet, sadly, it would prove to be the band’s last successful Top 40 hit, peaking at 32. Though the band would split up not long after the album’s release, Read more

  • Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and the Songs That Defined the 1980s (Abrams)

      I am a sucker for a good oral history text, and when I learned of Mad World, an oral history of New Wave, I eagerly acquired it. Though not the comprehensive history of the genre as I had initially hoped, what it offered was equally as welcome and as entertaining as I had hoped. Read more

  • Swimming Pool Q’s: Working At The Nut Factory

    Some bands are always going to reside on the peripheral of the greater scene. People know the big names–The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Nirvana–but not as many know Gerry and the Pacemakers, Buzzcocks, or Mudhoney–all bands of quality, but ones that have a smaller and just as great a following. Such is the case with Swimming Read more