#clint conley

[spilladabalia]

Mission of Burma - Peking Spring

[bappychaps]

Mission Of Burma - 'Signals, Calls, And Marches'

CD - 1997 Rykodisc (originally 1981 Ace Of Hearts Records)

[spilladabalia]

Mission Of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate (live Boston 1983)

[slovenlyrecordings]

Punk Rock Aerobics at Home Series: Mission of Burma

Hilken from The Monsieurs aerobicizing with Clint Conley of Mission of Burma covering "Class War" by The Dils?

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[bostonflashpoint]

Mission of Burma_The Space_Boston_1979

Tucked away on Batterymarch St. was the Space...a little place showcasing some great bands...MOB was one of them. The video of “Peking Spring” from the Space show and several other MOB clips can be viewed at the Boston Flashpoint blog here:

http://www.kinodv.net/blog/?page_id=421

Stories, video, mp3′s from the Underground show with the Cure can be viewed here:

http://www.kinodv.net/?s=mission+of+burma

[deep-space-9mm]

[themoderatelyobscure]

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ONoffON  2004/Matador Records As a band, returning to the stage after a ~20 year hiatus is, at the very least, a risky move. Few bands have accomplished such a feat and even fewer have done it with such vigorous success as Mission of Burma.  Their 2004 album, ONoffON, follow up to their resoundingly influential Vs. from all the way back in 1982, sounded as though the band had emerged from deep hibernation, or as if they'd finally been thawed out after a two-decade-long cryogenic freeze. The album's assertive ageless power seems completely unaware of the transformation of pop, the arguable demise of punk, and the idea that 20 years usually brings change, sonic maturity, and a drastic decrease in energy. Upon hearing this album for the first time, it is evident that Mission of Burma had picked up right where they had left off. After the band's initial breakup, guitarist (and primary vocalist) Roger Miller and tape manipulator/engineer Martin Swope continued working in music together, drummer Peter Prescott formed Volcano Suns with underground indie rock relic Bob Weston, and bassist (and vocalist) Clint Conley, with the exception of producing Yo La Tengo's debut album, withdrew from music and worked as a television producer. Although the 20 year break wasn't a total abstinence from music, that sort of time can undoubtedly affect how a band writes together, plays together, performs together - chemistry is something that can go AWOL, and when it does, emulating it is futile.  I may be exhausting the significance of a 20 year hiatus but I just find it astounding that a band can dust themselves off and re-immerse themselves into the music scene the way M.O.B did. Think of how Sonic Youth sounded in 1982 compared to Murray St., or Bowie from Space Oddity to Tin Machine. 20 years can be so drastic a range that within those years, a band has shed its skin so many times that those who found the band's platform so magnetic can now be entirely repulsed. That said, 20 years can be more than enough time for a band to rehash their 5 years of youthful grace to the point of absolute nausea. I played hackey-sack in college and became somewhat decent at it. I never played in high-school because I didn't know how (and every teenager knows that if you're not good at something, the best thing to do is avoid it completely, especially when around your peers) and also because I didn't smoke a lot of weed and I had a job. Anyway after college I forgot about it, then like, 6 months later I approached it spontaneously and was total shit. I had absolutely no skill or memory of how to take part in the game and have abandoned it since. That was only 6 months, let alone 20 years. Am I comparing my ephemeral partaking in the world's most hated stoner activity to the revered legacy of Signals, Calls, & Marches? Yes I am!  This song, Hunt Again, was actually first recorded in the 80s and appears on a B-sides/demos compilation entitled Forget, but was rerecorded for ONoffON. Miller's guitar chimes with the same dissonant trashy grunge it did on That's When I Reach For My Revolver, and Pete Prescott, nearing 50, drums with the same frenetic jerk that made That's How I Escape My Certain Fate so jagged and explosive. Though Roger Miller's voice was the more anthemic of the two, Conley's softer, introspective voice, best displayed on tracks like Academy Fight Song and Peking Spring, complements this two-minute clash of noise 20 years in the making. Clint Conley's aging voice may be the only giveaway that this record and Vs. were recorded decades apart (just for fun: the year Vs. was released, the Billboard Top 100 song of the year was 'Physical' by Olivia Newton John, and the year ONoffON was released, the Billboard Top 100 song of the year was 'Yeah!' by Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris) and if anything, it's gotten better, which can also be said about the entire group - they're louder, clearer, and their refusal to abandon what made them so noticeable 20 years ago makes them stand out, as they did in 1982, against the endless rolling tide of popular music today.