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I do like this kind of book that attempts to sum up a moment in cultural time, especially when the author is also rash enough to predict t... -
"Schlock" here used in the Yiddish-derived sense of "inferior or shoddy goods" Oops, here's an earlier Hawkwind -rel... -
....is a bit too huge of a question for me to tackle but briefly* 1/ I’m not as depressed about music and lack of futurity as I was when I...
The original Rock'N'Roll Robot by Alberto Camerini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K41DkYw5-M
ReplyDeleteI was a bit surprised to see that complaining about stadium rockers' over-elaborate lighting rigs and stage sets could still count as an interesting critique as late as April 1977. But I guess time moved a bit more slowly at Record Mirror. It's a reminder of that key point about Punk and other cultural revolutions: despite the rhetoric, the slate was not wiped clean on Year Zero. There was a long transition during which remnants of the ancien regime clung on for many years.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of one of the most self-important members of my teenage friend group, who was still a passionate "no synthesisers" advocate well into the 1980s.