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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 Best Albums) * Mem...19 hours ago
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Bäck to the Future (det här var imorgon) - Released 1978, recorded at the start of the 1970s. Give it a listen, it's immense What blows my mind is that by the time this ca...3 days ago
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Inscape and the hard gem-like flame - Long streamers were rising from over Kemble End one large flake loop-shaped, not a streamer but belonging to the string, moving too slowly to be seen, se...3 days ago
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opportunists knock - Yes that is *Tears For Fears *in their early mod revival incarnation: *Graduate* Looking a bit like Mick Talbot's first band, the one with that song t...4 days ago
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When Freaks Were Chic - Danceteria remembered - Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - *Danceteria *oral history by* Joy Press*, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club i...5 days ago
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Retrotalk: "There Is No Sound of the 2020s" versus "The Future Is Not Lost" versus "21st Century as Cultural Void?" - A flurry of recent debate on the topic of cultural stagnation versus "the future is alive and well actually!" Here's an interesting article by* Gabriel S...1 week ago
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Goth goes Glam - What tarts! *Gene Loves Jezebel *must have seen *Love and Rockets *enjoying Stateside sucksess with the T. Rexy "So Alive" and they thought "*we'll ave ...1 week ago
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STILL IN A DREAM - interviews, reviews, podcast + radio appearances, translations + American edition - Check out Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news about the book#1 Best Sellerin Punk Music (Amazon.co.uk)!NEW!Extract from Still In A Dream...1 week 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...2 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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