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The Future Shock Question.... - ....is a bit too huge of a question for me to tackle but briefly* 1/ I’m not as depressed about music and lack of futurity as I was when I wrote Retroma...4 days ago
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none New Wavier - In the tradition of the Mr Jones song about worker drones commuting, having heart attacks, wasting away in an office cubicle etc...6 days ago
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Posse and crew - Two of my most cherished 'Mystery Tunes' - 'Do the Right Ting' identified a while ago by a knowledgeable reader, and 'Honey Love' I only just spotted ...1 week ago
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Expanded Cinema: a tribute to Gene Youngblood's book - presented by LIGHTSTRUCK - Gene Youngblood Tapes on YouTube1 week ago
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Amazing Grace - *Grace Jones* on the *Pee Wee Herman Christmas Special *from 1988 Jones clip via the fascinating, poignant HBO documentary on *Pee Wee Herman*, which ...1 week 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...3 weeks 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 ...3 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...5 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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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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