Released:
Mar 1979
Label:
Ze Records
Everything about Buy is outrageous: the half-naked art chick on the front cover, James Chance's punker-than-thou brashness, The Contortions' prickly herky-herky rhythms. But it's also truly bold and unique. Rather than brining about the destruction of music (as No Wave promised us), the group's debut full-length represented a new and potently cacophonous fusion of art rock, hard funk and avant-garde groove exploration a la Beefheart, Miles and Ornette. Check out the last 50 seconds of "Contort Yourself", which makes for some of the most exhilarating and dramatic listening of the post-punk era.
Play Album
-
12:48
-
22:21
-
33:23
-
43:54
-
54:25
-
62:45
-
73:10
-
83:05
-
94:17
-
103:04
-
113:12
-
123:23
2003 ZE Records