Overlooked Genius In An Era That (Perhaps) Never Was

For some reason, perhaps because 'post punk' is supposedly so much en vogue these days, I've been listening to a fair amount of late seventies and early eighties stuff recently - Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd., the Cure, and, most tellingly and frequently, Dolly Mixture. (Is there a more unfairly overlooked band?)

It's strange, because the late seventies and early eighties seem so long ago, much longer ago than the sixties. In fact, I sometimes wonder if they really happened, maybe in part because, in certain lights and under the influence of certain (entirely legal) substances, I'd genuinely like to believe they didn't.

Ah, but if they didn't, there'd be no Dolly Mixture, and life without Dolly Mixture would scarcely be worth believing in anyway.