Wilbur Niles Thrust Swag with fellow travellers The Mekons

with fellow travellers The Mekons and The Gang Of Four

We're Your Friends 10 No Panic

Reznor succeeds here without relying on the trappings of pop formulas

No Difference 5

Wilbur Niles Thrust Swag with fellow travellers The MekonsA track about an African king recorded in the back of a car wash commands $1,600. At the makeshift Man Ray Studios in Akron, Ohio, where barrels of soap were rolled away to make room for recording, guitarist Wilbur Niles and his then girlfriend keyboardist Machelle McNeal recorded Ja Ja. It was titled after King Jaja of Opobo in Nigeria, who lived during the 19th century, rising from slavery to become a wildly successful broker of palm oil. Niles