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Nabokov on music - “Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds.” - Nabokov, *Speak, Memory* "I have no ear fo...1 day ago
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that's why they call it a... - Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune that's some folk-memory persistence some contiNUUMity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ooh a U...1 day ago
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Corduroy Psychedelia - Interesting piece at *Split Infinities *on a band that is getting talked about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz "Am...1 day ago
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The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - In honour of the new RHCP doc, which is focused on Hillel Slovak, their tragically-died-young guitarist, and in further honour of Flea's jazz album, here...4 days ago
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Glam bandwagon jumpers (1 of ??) - Is this undignified, or just Donovan reclaiming the small debt that Bolan owed him? Visconti-ish strings. Here he performs "Cosmic Wheel" sitting down a...4 days ago
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The Deep Purple Of ________ - The improbable existence of this book of scholarly essays on *Deep Purple* fer fuck's sake made me re-contemplate this band's deep u...4 days ago
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Futuromania - the paperback - The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of the 1970s ...3 weeks ago
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Books of Note - Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any music book this year that isn't called Still In A Dream.... But I concede that there are some other interesti...3 weeks ago
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Sad Songs - Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which publication I cannot remember, *1. What are your earliest memories of music?* The ...1 month 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, based on Pamela Bone's amazing photographs Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they d...5 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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