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Audiophilephobia versus Audiophilephilia - *Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum*, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 12 April, 1959, as part of the program *Monitor*. Directed by *John Schlesinge*r. Narrated by *Ro...3 hours ago
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The Shock of the Newcastle - Snapped off the TV from a YouTube British doc about Newcastle in 1966. Mostly about the vibrant youth culture there but it does show th...3 days ago
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Creelin' in the years - It's the 20th anniversary of one of the heroic music reclamation projects of our time - Creel Pone.Keith Fullerton Whitman gives the low down about the lab...4 days ago
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pro-theatricality in pop (Act present Showtime) - Me on Act and ZTT in *New Statesman* The full epic version *"The song is taken from the Leer-Brücken musical 'Name Dropping (...5 days ago
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In Full Bloom (LCD / DFA) - *LCD Soundsystem, live, a week ago, Bowery Ballroom…* … was more exciting than I’d thought. Came with minimal expectations really (a guy and a synth and ...5 days ago
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Radio Utopia - People remember the Sixties pirate radio heyday, when the pirates were literally boats at sea.... and they remember the Eighties terrestial tower-block r...2 weeks ago
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Brutalist / Botanist - This whole Brutalism thing has gotten a bit of out of hand now.... they are scraping the barrel bottom, I think. Mind, you, these photographs are co...3 weeks ago
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fave raves - I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD* asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs / nights-out-danci...2 months ago
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RIP David Lynch - "Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during his second year of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Phi...4 months ago
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angel delights - https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs *Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica! Another vintage release, with a vi...2 years ago
I always love seeing these pieces. That sense of possibility: "There's this new band called The Clash. They could be big!"
ReplyDeleteThe Sounds writers did pretty well, on the old wave as well as the new. Sources suggesting Fleetwood Mac's new album could be a good one...
Interesting to see "new wave" being deployed already by January 1977: I had always thought of it as the marketing term used a year or two later to tidy up the Punk revolution.
And that is future novelist Tim Lott making the case for Cado Belle, isn't it? Not a terrible pick: although they never made it big, Maggie Reilly sounds great on those Mike Oldfield hits.
New Wave was a term used quite early I think. Malcolm McLaren preferred it to punk, possibly because he was a Francophile and a cineaste, so it reminded him of the Nouvelle Vague. Seymour Stein was another one pushing for 'New Wave'.
DeleteIs this the first example of the sanitised, orthodox and asinine take on The Clash, that American-dominated opinion which holds The Clash to be a superior rock band which achieved their full potential when they ditched all that punk claptrap (see also: the championing of Elvis Costello as punk's saving grace)? I find that the American heralding of the virtues of musical slickness and professionalism flosses my helmet red-raw.
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