{"id":7398,"date":"2025-04-05T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:46:38","slug":"the-mekons-original-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2025\/04\/05\/the-mekons-original-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mekons-Original Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/R-3034534-1720175412-2253.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/R-3034534-1720175412-2253.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/R-3034534-1720175412-2253-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/R-3034534-1720175412-2253-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a re-release of their 1985 recording Fear And Whisky, originally released on the Sin Records label of Brixton. 9 other songs from that time period are added to this new CD on Minneapolis&#8217;s Twin\/Tone Records. Their fourth release this is a bit of a departure from the early Punk Rock sound of this Leeds band. I had a couple of their cassettes but no records. I have six CDs of theirs. This was always my favorite, the others I&#8217;m not too familiar with, I have the feeling I didn&#8217;t care for them. This CD is filled with Country and Alt Country tunes. Lots of fiddle by Suzie Honeyman. Two great songs &#8220;Chivalry&#8221; and &#8220;Last Dance&#8221; are on my playlist. &#8220;Trouble Down South&#8221; and &#8220;Darkness And Doubt&#8221; are also good. 4 songs, including 2 of the bonus tracks feature narration backed by music &#8220;Psycho Cupid (Danceband On The Edge Of Time)&#8221; being the most interesting. There are two covers &#8220;Lost Highway&#8221; an old Country song and the Gram Parsons song $1000 Wedding. Really like this CD and have played it quite a few times. I will listen to two or three of their other CDs I have and see if If my opinion of them changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a re-release of their 1985 recording Fear And Whisky, originally released on the Sin Records label of Brixton.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2025\/04\/05\/the-mekons-original-sin\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mekons-Original Sin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}