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Unfamiliarity breeds Contempt / declensions of Duncan - I thought I had heard *everything *- but the munificence of all the vintage Top of the Pops episodes on YouTube supplied surprise Here, in 1977, sava...2 days ago
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rockstars in the nuddy (slight return) - *Sounds* again, of course - what was it with their compulsion to show hard rockers with their kit off? True, the...2 days ago
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reading matters 2: keeping it in the Family - Our Kid with a Rabbit Holed about the wacky world of the Young Wikipedians who are frenziedly writing the second draft of music history. (The first draft...4 days 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”...5 days ago
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Acen apex - This video for the Monolithikmaniak mix of “Window in the Sky” - only to be found in this fuzzy, off-TV video cassette recording - is some kind of audio...1 week ago
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asignifying craft - … a new millennium style of pop writing / rock criticism that is cautious about reaching for significance and concentrates instead on a kind of inventory...1 week 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 weeks 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...3 weeks 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 ...3 weeks 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 ...5 weeks 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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