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Pylon - “Dub” (1980)

Via Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out Of Bounds, a history of the Athens music/party scene, here is the DB Recs press release for Pylon’s debut single.

PYLON 45—“Cool/Dub”

Representing rural raucousness, recording righteous racket, rocking really rampant, ready righton rogues release rip-roaring robust rollicking rolypoly record right now.

Never knowing the meaning of the word nix, another effort graces your desk having utilized the same studio, engineer, producer, and distributor that brought forth The B-52’s “Rock Lobster” and Kevin Dunn’s “Nadine.” PYLON from hep capital Athens, Georgia has laid down two songs written by the band in their first vinyl effort. Members Vanessa Ellison, Michael Lachowski, Randall Bewley, and Curtis Crowe vary in age from 23 to 24, and played their first publig show in Athens at the 40 Watt Club in March 1979.

January 1980

The band had originally planned to record to “Feast on My Heart” and “Human Body”, but decided to do their new songs “Cool” and “Dub” instead. The title and lyrical mantra of “Dub”—I’ll eat you for breakfast!—are a reference to Interview magazine’s Glen O’Brien’s review of the band’s first New York show (opening for Gang of Four). “Those kids must listen to dub for breakfast,” he had determined. The members of Pylon didn’t know what dub was.