On 9 March 2014 00:18, <[email protected]> wrote: > > this is what the Clash predicted > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyCrx4DyMk > > I stumbled on it....considering it's meant to be Punk, I was surprised how > good it is. Good vocals >
What on earth do you mean? Of course punk is good (I think of the Clash as one of the less good examples myself, London Calling is definitely so-so imho). Siouxsie and the Banshees (listen to "Once upon a time" for the best tracks), the Pretenders (especially their first album), Ian Dury and the Blockheads, the Stranglers, the Go-gos, X-ray spex ... to name but a few ... all good musicians liberated by the "new wave" ... or going back earlier we have the Velvet Underground, arguably the proto-punks (or maybe proto-Goths...or indeed proto-almost-everything-that-the-Beatles-weren't-proto), not to mention the wonderful Iggy Pop and I guess Blondie and Sonic Youth, to take two ends of the spectrum. And the Flaming Lips. And then you can look at all the bands and individuals influenced by punk, from Grunge to House to Grindcore to Black Metal to whatever the kids are listening to now (Lorde, mainly, it seems, who went to the same school as my son :) Although I have very little good to say about Malcolm McLaren he did arguably launch a whole new musical experience with the Sex Pistols, a type of music which had until then only been underground (Rezillos? B52s?) but bubbled to the surface when Rotten et al appeared on prime time TV swearing away. The world was never the same. Happy days! > Being different, dressing different, making your own music, writing your > own lyrics. It's something kids marv el ad,t when a band does it today. It > was the norm back in the day. A lucky time that way. Black music was > something to marvel at, so diverse, so experimental, so leading the way. It > just vanished , I hope it comes back one day. Simon Cowell says the average > quality is higher than ever, but a sausage factory does that > Yes indeed. But I see that spark in Lorde and even dear Lady Gaga. To quote Lorde, not verbatim, She had to do a photoshoot (being famous now and all that) and the photographer kept saying 'Smile!' and after a while she said, 'I got here because I did my own thing, and I'm not smiling because you tell me to!' - and she didn't, and we have photos to prove it. PS And she's on the cover of "Rolling Stone" wearing a "Cramps" T-shirt!!!!! That girl is definitely my hero now, even if I didn't like her music - I thought the Cramps were only for weirdos like me. (In a couple of years she WILL be playing Morticia Addams, either on film or in real life.) -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
