I always love seeing these pieces. That sense of possibility: "There's this new band called The Clash. They could be big!"
The 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'.
Is 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.
Their Way
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Never fully understood the term "chewing the scenery" until I saw this.
*Dorothy Squires* certainly "did it her way" - more on that at the bottom.
B...
Futuromania!
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My ninth book is out in a couple of weeks time! Futuromania: Electronic
Dreams, Desiring Machines & Tomorrow's Music Today is a themed collection
about mus...
The Future
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*THE FUTURE & THE HUMAN LEAGUE*
*The Golden Hour of the Future*
*(Black Melody)*
*Uncut, 2002*
*by Simon Reynolds*
It began with musical vomit in the m...
the future behind us now
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Xenogothic exhumes a panel discussion from 2014 involving Mark Fisher, Lee
Gamble, Kode9 aka Steve Goodman, Alex Williams, Lisa Blanning - and bearing
th...
future thinkige
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"Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches"
- Italo Calvino
"He, still unvanquished, eternally directed toward the future, who...
The Original Pitman
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Well, it doesn't actually specify that *Barnsley Bill* works down the pit,
but Barnsley was a big town for coal mining, along with other industries.
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Jules Evens - Cut Happy (2024)
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An animation created by *Jules Evens*, one of my students at California
Institute of the Arts (with sounds contributed by another student, Zhu
Dongch...
four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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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...
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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