No Great Lost: Songs, 1979-1985
Album | Kevin Dunn
Lost new wave classic makes a welcome comeback.
In the late '70s and early '80s, every city big enough to have more than a couple local new wave bands had one guy who used a basement stash of reel-to-reel machines, guitars, synths and drum machines to painstakingly overdub his own one-man-band records. All of them thought they were going to be at least as big as Devo, but in general, these anti-social misanthropes made some of the absolute worst (and most hilariously dated) music of their time. All of which makes Kevin Dunn's 1981 album The Judgment of Paris even more of a triumph. Up there with R. Stevie Moore's early releases and Gary Wilson's You Think You Really Know Me as one of the great DIY one-man-band records of its era, The Judgment of Paris has all the herky-jerky rhythms, hiccuppy vocal tics and monophonic synths a new wave historian could want, but Dunn's obvious songwriting and arranging gifts make songs like "Private Sector" and "Giovinezza" much more than a collection of period cliches. Along with the entirety of The Judgment of Paris, this flawless and long overdue reissue includes key tracks from Dunn's other early '80s releases.
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