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MX-80 Sound

MX-80 Sound has been played on NTS in shows including Tim Koh: Kokonut Trip, featured first on 28 October 2014. Songs played include Someday You'll Be King, Obsessive Devotion and It's Not My Fault.

MX-80 Sound were a post-punk band originally from Bloomington, Indiana (involved in the same scene that spawned the Gizmos).

Their sound was centered around Bruce Anderson's slashing, trebly guitar riffing and Rich Stim's deadpan, often indecipherable, mumble. As a five-piece (with two drummers), they twice released a seven-song 7-inch EP (subtitled Hard Pop from the Hoosiers) on local labels, impressing Island Records enough to sign them. But the following album, Hard Attack,…

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Someday You'll Be King
MX 80
Ralph Records1980
Someday You'll Be King
MX 80Ralph Records1980
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Obsessive Devotion
MX-80 Sound
Ralph Records1981
Obsessive Devotion
MX-80 SoundRalph Records1981
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It's Not My Fault
MX-80
Atavistic1996
It's Not My Fault
MX-80Atavistic1996
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Theme From Batman
MX-80
A&R/ENT1990
Theme From Batman
MX-80A&R/ENT1990
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Someday You'll Be King
MX-80 Sound
Ralph Records1980
Someday You'll Be King
MX-80 SoundRalph Records1980
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