{"id":18649,"date":"2026-09-25T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=18649"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:51:08","slug":"sunday-afternoon-vinyl-urban-dance-squad-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/sunday-afternoon-vinyl-urban-dance-squad-persona-non-grata\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Vinyl – Urban Dance Squad – Persona Non Grata"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Urban<\/a><\/p>\n

Urban Dance Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Persona Non Grata<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discogs:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/9211916-Urban-Dance-Squad-Persona-Non-Grata<\/p>\n

Year Of Release: <\/strong>1994<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Persona Non Grata<\/em> is my favourite album from Dutch group Urban Dance Squad<\/a>. A few years prior to its release I\u2019d heard (and enjoyed) Mental Floss For The Globe<\/em><\/a>. This album, however, seemed a lot heavier on the guitar which fit in well with my fascination with many of the rap \/ rock bands that were doing the rounds at the time.<\/p>\n

Urban Dance Squad was also the first real gig I went to see, having the opportunity to see them play at Le Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Barbey in Bordeaux in November, 1994<\/a>. They were amazing live \u2013 full of energy and so loud (maybe they seemed so loud because I wasn\u2019t bright enough to use ear protection in those days).<\/p>\n

\"Urban<\/a><\/p>\n

They put out six albums (I\u2019m not counting the Singles Collection<\/em> released after they split up) in their time together and I recommend you go check them out. There\u2019s a massive variety of musical styles being incorporated into the songs, and it\u2019s fascinating to compare what they were doing in Europe at the same time as bands were doing something similar in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Standout tracks on this one are Demagogue<\/em>, Good Grief!<\/em>, (Some) Chitchat<\/em>, and Hangout<\/em>. I used to really enjoy Downer<\/em>, but nowadays I can\u2019t come at it. Anyway, check out Urban Dance Squad if you haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urban Dance Squad Persona Non Grata Discogs: https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/9211916-Urban-Dance-Squad-Persona-Non-Grata Year Of Release: 1994 Review Persona Non Grata is my favourite album from Dutch group Urban Dance Squad. A few years prior to its release I\u2019d heard (and enjoyed) Mental Floss For The Globe. This album, however, seemed a lot heavier on the guitar which fit in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1459],"tags":[791,1460,1506],"class_list":["post-18649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sunday-afternoon-vinyl","tag-music","tag-sunday-afternoon-vinyl","tag-urban-dance-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}