Wild Youth - A Leopard Never Changes Her Spots CD Wild Youth - A Leopard Never Changes Her Spots CD
Wild Youth - A Leopard Never Changes Her Spots CD Wild Youth - A Leopard Never Changes Her Spots CD

Wild Youth - A Leopard Never Changes Her Spots CD

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South Africa
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If British youth was mired in alienation, boredom and despair in 1977, then what must it have been like for teenagers trying to express themselves within the confines of ultra-conservative, apartheid-riddled South Africa? Kicking against the pricks from 1977-80, Durban punk trio Wild Youth were the first to learn three chords and spew out the truth as it hit them. Their official releases amounted to just one 7 single and two tracks on the first SA punk compilation, WEAS Six Of The Best (1979), but leader Michael Flecks painstaking archival work collating additional material from cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes and internet sources has resulted in a 22-track posthumous anthology worthy of respect.

The bands name and Flecks Billy Idol-esque looks reference Generation Xs snotty glam punk, but the best tracks (All Messed Up, the grinding nihilism of the single Wot About Me) are more akin to Fun House-era Stooges, while the moody Avalanche shows that post-punk angularity was being hungrily embraced before they split.

This collection also rounds up tracks from Flecks post- Wild Youth 80s project Gay Marines. The sneering Wild Girl keeps the punk flame alight, but the edgy, Gang Of Four-ish My Art Form and the hypnotic Blue Light (Dub) both suggest that Fleck could have gone on to greater things if his society had treated him a little better.

Reviewed by Tim Peacock

6009834170310

FRESHCD 184(102)

Fresh Music, 2012

SOUTH AFRICA

Good condition

C08

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