Saturday, May 27, 2023

Sounds writers predictions for 1977



 

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  1. EdMay 29, 2023 at 8:22 AM

    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.

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    1. SIMON REYNOLDSMay 29, 2023 at 1:01 PM

      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'.

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  2. StyloMay 29, 2023 at 3:08 PM

    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.

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