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Those Horny "Horns" (slight return) - Always felt this tune by Dev, "In the Dark" - my fave single of whatever year that was - was a UK garage flashback / rip-off. And now I realise that the...14 hours ago
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You know the score - Son vaults ahead of father by joining the select grouping of music critics who have had diss songs aimed at them by aggrieved musicians. In this case, the...1 day ago
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The Parental Voice in Pop - "*We gave her most of our lives.... never a thought for ourselves...*" "*We only wanted to be loved*" (always taken it to be meant as a clinging moth...2 days ago
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Future Shock / Techno Rebels - 1972 program based on Alvin Toffler's best-seller, with a wonderfully grave narration from Orson Welles and occasional shots of the great man wandering...4 days ago
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retrochat - I had a very interesting and jolly chat with *Adina Glickstein *for the arts magazine *Spike *on the subject of nostalgia and retrokultur, touching on ma...3 weeks ago
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Most Important / Best Artist of 21st Century (how it looked in 2017) - * original Q - who's the Best Artist Since 2000....* No overall single figures springs to mind, I'd have to divide it up into categories and with multip...3 weeks ago
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Secret Thesis - 1980s Division (t'was Blitz to be alive in that dandy dawn) - There's an exhibition at the *Design Museum* in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of *Blitz* and *Billy's* and *Le...4 weeks ago
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Circle of Light (1972) - Anthony Roland / Pamela Bone / Delia Derbyshire +Elsa Stansfield. - Would dearly like to see the whole of this film Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they do a good job telling Delia Derbyshire’s stor...5 weeks ago
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Blogging! - *director's cut of piece in the The Guardian, roughly a year ago - with the follow-up blog pieces below* I started blogging in 2002. Prior to that I’d ...1 month 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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