Polyrock - Warm and Dry (Live at Irving Plaza)

The response to my pleas about Polyrock have been heard literally all over the blogosphere and beyond. If you missed the inital rush, you can find that stuff by clicking here. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of my efforts to unearth and breathe new life into a band whom I consider one of the truly great (and subliminally influential) lost New York City art rock bands of the early 1980's. News has been slow to trickle in, but I am told (sadly) that Curt Cosentino (one of the founding members) has passed away. I have been in touch with someone who worked with the band and who remains closely associated with Philip Glass. When there is more to know, I will let folks know. In the interim, I owe warm thanks to Heath from Just For A Day who hooked me up with my prize request, the 1986 ROIR cassette of No Love Lost. So far out of print it's silly, it has all been ripped to MP3's for us to listen to and revisit. Consider it my early Hanukkwanzaamas present to all of you. This collection of demos, outtakes, and live material shows incredible promise. My pick, "Warm And Dry", sounds like a Joy Division song with much more step to it. What the hell happened here? I cannot understand how this slipped thru the cracks of time. This material proves that Polyrock, at the time of their breakup, was definitely right in step with their contemporaries. Listen to the song "Ever" and ask yourself if this didn't belong on the soundtrack to some great 80's movie we all loved like Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club. Blame it on oversight, the oversaturation that was happening in the 1980's, pick something. FYI, this is only a partial posting of the cassette, more later in the week. Enjoy.

La So La Me(Home Demo)
Ever (Demo)
Sounds Of Love (demo)
Me O My (demo)
Broken China (demo)
Toy Soldiers (demo)
#7 (Live at Hurrah)
Body Me (Live at Hurrah)