Olive the Jerk 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS -  Born Bad  Record Shop,  20 Years Anniversary !  LP - LES DISQUES MAUVAIS GARCONS - 2020 Here comes quite a long digression on the Born Bad's 20th Anniversary Lp compilation, which seems to give us a remarkable lesson of what the overused word post-punk means nowadays. Born Bad, a way of life ! In the very early noughties, the No Governement ’s punk crew put out an issue of its fanzine with an interview of Iwan : the No Talents ’/ Teckels ’ bassist explained he had just opened, with his mate Mark, drummer in the same bands, a Parisian vinyl shop called Born Bad  ; and yes, the quality really seemed to be there. That piece of news was an igniting event for me, as the shop quickly became a compulsory stop on my frequent jumps to Paris and widely opened my sub-cultural musical tastes. In fact, there has ever been a question of high fidelity with such places : meeting points for any rock’n’roll tribes, promotion of undergrou...