The Mekons

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The Mekons are a punk rock/post punk band. They are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk bands (rivaled in both categories only by The Fall).

Leeds University art students Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh formed the Mekons in 1977, taking the band’s name from the Mekon, an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s-1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle). The band first gained widepread popularity with the single “

Never Been in a Riot,” a satirical take on the Clash’s “

White Riot.” For several years the loose-knit band played noisy, bare-bones post-punk in the vein of fellow Leeds students Gang of Four. Yet Langford and Greenhalgh never hewed closely to genre conventions, and by the mid-80s (now augmented by vocalist Sally Timms and violinist Susie Honeyman) they began to experiment with musical styles derived from traditional folk and country. 1985’s watershed Fear and Whiskey, 1986’s The Edge of the World and 1987’s Honky Tonkin’ exemplified the band’s new sound, which built on the innovations of Gram Parsons and blended punk ethos with the minimalist country of Hank Williams. This style, sometimes referred to as “post-modern country”, is a direct forerunner of the alt-country genre represented by bands like Uncle Tupelo.

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3	17	Add this track to your playlist Never Been in a Riot full track	18
9	17	Add this track to your playlist Memphis Egypt full track	18
4	19	Add this track to your playlist Cocaine Lil	17
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–	2	Add this track to your playlist Chivalry full track	916
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Lost Highway	762
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Last Dance full track	683
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Hard to Be Human Again	610
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Empire of the Senseless full track	571
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Club Mekon	523
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Where Were You	518
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Only Darkness Has the Power	493
–	10	Add this track to your playlist Flitcraft	491
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Trouble Down South	482
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Country	468
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–	17	Add this track to your playlist Amnesia	391
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–	19	Add this track to your playlist I Am Crazy	372
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–	25	Add this track to your playlist Never Been in a Riot full track	332
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8	36	Add this track to your playlist Dancing in the Head full track	170
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