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.
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'.
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.
through rushes and through briars
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I always heard the sampled lyric in "Sub Dub" as "*through rushes and
through briars*" - thinking the word "rush" with its ravey connotations
snagged ...
The Mania-festo
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In the *No Tags *podcast, I mention being influenced by *The Futurist
Manifesto*. What stirred my interest must surely have been *Zang Tuum Tuumb
*...
remorseless writing machine (and it don't stop)
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Kieran Press-Reynolds churns out a couple more: a piece on the "influencer
horror videogame" Content Warning for New York Timesan overview of a new
genre ...
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"Rather than the will, rather than the elan vital, Imagination is the true
source of psychic production. Psychically, we are created by our reverie -
cre...
Totally Frye-d (You Got To Slow Down)
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" The first chapter of the book, called “City of the End of Things,”
describes “*the alienation of progress*,” one of the elements which
constitute the m...
Steve Albini RIP
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Shocked and shaken by the way-early death of *Steve Albini*.
Saddened too.
People I've met through this music thing are thinning down in number, it
fe...
Glam Raiders / Glitter Ravers
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Sampling from *Kenny*'s "The Bump"
(ooh and right at the end a tiny bit of Steppenwolf)
*Space Raiders* almost seem like a belated belch from the bac...
four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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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...
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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