>> you are saying that something musically significant happened here Something significant happened to pop music for sure.
In 1977 the charts were dominated by David Soul, Rod Stewart, Brotherhood of Man, Leo Sayer, Hot Chocolate, Boney M, Shawaddywaddy and Billy Ocean. Daddy Cool. Rockin' All Over the World and Yes Sir, I can Boogie. And then: Dragged on a table in factory Illegitimate place to be In a packet in a lavatory Die little baby screaming Body screaming fucking bloody mess Not an animal It's an abortion Body! I'm not animal Mummy! I'm not an abortion It kind of hits you in the face with the reality as experienced by the dispossessed and disenfranchised, but in a very immediate and visceral way. Its far more gut wrenching and confrontational than iggy pop, or the clash or any other punk band I know of. Most people are so offended someone is singing about abortion that they miss the fact that the song is an argument between the unborn child and the mother. For a spotty teenager that's pretty brainy lyrically and very surreal. I don't think it was ever matched until the Pixies really. I stand by the Pistols. True, Rotten is a twat now. He wasn't then though. > From: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au > Subject: Re: The way the future was > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:03:43 +1100 > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > > > > > > On 10 Mar 2014, at 4:30 am, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 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. > > I lived through it and was even more the same after it. With all due respect, > you are saying that something musically significant happened here but I only > ever heard "racket and rubbish" from Johnny Rotten. I mean, he called himself > rotten for a reason. He was. He was musically as rotten as festering shit. > What was musically significant about the Sex Pistols? I mean, concerning the > actual elements of music. Things like pitch, rhythm, harmony, melody - all > that core stuff. His music shows no skill whatsoever at those things. But > then he didn't even write his own music because he was too off his dial most > of the time. None of this precludes the distinct possibility that you, as I > myself still do, find vastly entertaining, listening to the Sex Pistols very > occasionally. I often do listen to music I really hate if only to realise why > in ever more glory that I love the music I really do love... > > Feel free to hate this post creatively in some way. McClaren would have. > > Kim > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
