Sunday, November 01, 2020

Wah!: Seven Minutes to Midnight


Peter Wylie played with Ian McCulloch and Julian Cope in minor Liverpool bands before he formed his own. Wah! changed names regularly - it's possible this single should be credited to Wah! Heat.

Seven Minutes to Midnight was released in 1980 and is very much of its period - which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. At times it sounds like a more melodic version of The Jam.

Its title refers to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock, which had just been set forward by two minutes,

2 comments:

  1. ...and is now at 100 seconds to midnight!

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  2. An under-rated musician who has stayed with his roots. The very last line on the fade out of "come back" (a eulogy of scousedom) was "Hooray for Hatton". Not a lot of people know that.

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