Insert from the 1981 Mission Of Burma EP Signals, Calls And Marches - Peter Prescott, Clint Conley, Martin Swope and Roger Miller.

Mission of Burma “That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate”

• VS. (1982)

Forced Exposure #9 (1986)

Mission Of Burma

Dredd Foole & The Din - We Will Fall (1983) / See God (1985/1986)

A whole lotta Dredd! The always awesome Corbett vs. Dempsey label continues its valuable excavation of the Dredd Foole & The Din (AKA The Greatest Band In Hell) archives with these two monstrous collections.

The 1983 volume captures the original group (which is essentially Mission of Burma with Foole as frontman) in at the end of their run/rope — indeed the live recording that makes up most of We Will Fall kicks off with a version of the Doors' "The End" that is alternately hilarious and terrifying. The set that follows delivers unhinged, blown-out, go-for-broke thrills, with the Burma Din following their leader straight into the heart of darkness. Apocalypse ... NOW?!

See God picks up the story a few years later, when Foole teamed up with Peter Prescott's Volcano Suns to keep the Din alive. Featuring radio broadcasts and proper studio sessions (alongside some vital live tapes), the two discs here see this iteration of the band becoming a bit more like a conventional band ... but just a bit. Foole's madcap energy couldn't really be tamed — check out the fully combustible "Heroin"-esque trip of "Believe" or the insanity of "Paralyze" for proof. Beautifully presented with extensive liner notes, you need both We Will Fall and See God ... no Foole-in'!

Northeastern Regional - Group C

Today we move on to the Northeast Regional competition of the March Madness of American Rock Bands tournament. Vote for your favorite band! The top two vote recipients move on to the next round.

Mission of Burma (Boston MA)

Parliament (Plainfield NJ)

Talking Heads (Providence RI/New York NY)

The Dead Milkmen (Philadelphia PA)

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Mission of Burma - "1970" From the album The Horrible Truth About Burma (1985)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

8/10/23.

NOTE: This was supposed to post yesterday, but I posted it in the wrong spot. So here it is...

Drop Nineteens are another band reforming 30 years later. I've loved these reunion albums for a several reasons. First, I love the idea of friends coming back to make music years later - I appreciate that the passion and love for music stays strong. Second, some of these "reformation" albums are strong - the recent Vacant Lot post comes immediately to mind. Also, those Mission of Burma albums for the late aughts/early 2010s were outstanding. And finally, sometimes the reformation brings a band across my radar for the first time.

All three appear to be true on "Hard Light", the new album from Drop Nineteens (Boston, Massachusetts). And while I'm not the biggest fan of shoegaze, I do like it. This reminds me of some Yo La Tengo, and Erik Blood (listen to Touch Screens).

Wharf Cat is releasing this on the heels of another reformed band release from Bush Tetras.

Excited to open for Roger Clark Miller from Mission of Burma with a solo set as part of the Oak Cliff Film Festival at The Wild Detectives in Dallas next Friday June 23 ❤️ -Eric

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Mission of Burma - Walker Memorial Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14, 1982

Last week, I wrote a little about a new Dredd Foole archival release from the early 1980s, collecting Dredd's recordings with the Din — a band otherwise known as Mission of Burma. It's incredible, unhinged stuff, most of it previously unreleased. Recommended!

Foole and the Din's sole studio outing took place in early February of 1982, so I thought I'd check in on what Mission of Burma was up to around the same time. This is it! Did a bunch of MIT-ers go on Valentine's Day dates to see the band? Maybe (the band's label was Ace of Hearts, after all) though I can't imagine there was a lot of slow dancing going on during their intense, masterful set. The horrible truth about Burma? They fucking ruled.

MoB was in the midst of recording their classic Vs. LP in the winter of '82, so we get a fair amount of that new material, plus some more vintage tunes. I think my favorite is the absolutely majestic version of "Einstein's Day" here — hey, maybe you could slow dance to this one!