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The Honorable Epigone (Are You Inexperienced) - Saw *Robyn Hitchcock *doing "Brenda's Iron Sledge" on *Old Grey Whistle Test* and took against it. Witnessed a support slot for R.E.M. in '87 and tha...2 days ago
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"photography poisons the world" (All the World's A Screen addendum) - Here's an entry from *The Biographical Dictionary of Film* in which David Thomson rehearses some of the concerns about "movie" addressed in the new book*...5 days ago
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Peace Signs (Flash It) - Pure Gurley gorgeousness in this Rogue Unit mix Such emotional subtlety to almost anything Steve Gurley touches The other versions - nice 'n' slinky ...1 week ago
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Take Care - *The Caretaker* *Everywhere at the End of Time* *2019* *History Always Favours The Winners* *(part of Resident Advisor's 2000-2025 Be...3 weeks ago
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STILL IN A DREAM - interviews, reviews, podcast + radio appearances, translations + American edition - Table for one - Still In A Dreams pulsing with an ultravivid glow at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd. Snapped by old friend Mark Hudson.!...4 weeks ago
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faves of the 2010s - (Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...2 months ago
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Visual Music - a lecture, by me - *Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018* *Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series* There is a subset of experimental ani...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...3 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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