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in - out... in... out... Shake'n' Vac it all about - "*i always feel like UK Hard House has been snubbed from being part of the "hardcore continuum"...... like listen to this and tell me it wasnt massivel...15 hours ago
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Quintessence of Old Wave (5 of ??) - I've observed before that *Kate Bush* - now a national treasure, hip reference point, influence on a whole 21st Century phalanx of female artists etc...1 day ago
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tres debonAyers - Some people have compared Kevin Ayers's debonair image to Bryan Ferry - the genuine genteel article as opposed to the faux. Some even see him...2 days ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja - Very quiet in the parish at the moment. The rotten weather isn't helping. On the way home after walking the dog over the fields, coming back along Ickn...2 weeks ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja - Very quiet in the parish at the moment. The rotten weather isn't helping. On the way home after walking the dog over the fields, coming back along Icknield...2 weeks ago
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Rhythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren - One of my interests is the weird electronic (or otherly avant or just nuttily absurdist) music on animations and experimental short films, sometimes done...3 weeks ago
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50 Favorite Songs - (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...3 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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