My Top 2000 Songs #1193: Bias Binding
Yeah Yeah Noh were a distinctively British lo-fi post-punk band with a particularly scrappy yet playful DIY sound. I remember their 1985 compilation When I Am A Big Girl (compiling a few 1984 singles) arriving at the college station and finding its strangeness alluring. There was a brief moment when I regularly played the quirky "Bias Binding" on my show each week, a silly yet catchy call-and-response that moved quickly and was a great way to break up a show heavy on the jangle pop and noisy indie rock, random UK-isms that went over my head yet captured my imagination. Kinda the flip side of The Fall , if Mark E. Smith were polite and light-hearted, sharing confounding witticisms over a cup of tea. Anyway, I probably went decades without ever hearing the song, yet it was so infectious it would still pop into my head at the most random times. Live reunion show 2002:
