Apr262024

The Mekons

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. Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1Where Were You
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2Chivalry
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3Ghosts Of American Astronauts
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4Last Dance
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5Where Were You?
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6Lost Highway
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7Hard to Be Human Again
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8Memphis, Egypt
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9Trouble Down South
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10Club Mekon
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