FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #14: The Yoshiko Gardens
UB40 “I’ve Got Mine” b/w “Dubmobile” (DEP International Records DEP6, January 1983)
Though I’m way too obsessed with Americana to be considered an Anglophile, I went through a phase between 1980 and 1984 where I read NME and Melody Maker and The Face, and sopped up UK imports like a sponge in a swimming pool. Not for naught, mind you; it was a fertile period for British music. Punk and post-punk had blown England’s doors completely off their […]