MEKONS - The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen LP world Catchy with punch-a-long choruses galore

Catchy with punch-a-long choruses galore

“Not For Sale: Live 1978/79” provides a thrilling glimpse into what an album by the "Legendary" Scientists might've sounded like if it had been recorded in 1979

and there was much controversy and even legal action involved and some rivalry between the two bands

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Though the band name sounds today like the title of a Silicon Valley intern’s blog

MEKONS - The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen LP world Catchy with punch-a-long choruses galoreLiner notes by Simon Reynolds. Highly recommended. Simon Reynolds writes, The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen got a mixed reception at the time. Listening to it now, though, the first LP sounds more of a piece with the bands early punk singles. Whats striking is the commonality of sound across the three key Leeds groups of that moment (Gang Of Four, Delta 5 and The Mekons). There are textural affinities in terms of scrawny abrasiveness and a general