Moistworks, the supergroup of mp3 blogs with a penchant for some of the more obscure forgotten jewels of rock music had a post on 39 Clocks recently. I didn't know the band before, I swear, but when I heard the singer on the first song 78 Soldier Dead which is still online I knew that he was from Niedersachsen in the North of Germany (Hannover to be precise). His dead-pan vocal delivery with a strong German accent reminded me of Stephan Remmler somehow, the singer of Trio, the biggest of all the Neue Deutsche Welle bands. 39 Clocks have been compared to Velvet Underground and it makes sense. The beats are simple and trashy, they have the charm of a dead-end alley leading directly to the garbage bin. It was the early eighties where everything was possible. The best and the worst and the combination of the two. Which was the most exciting actually.