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The End of Music: Punk, New Wave, Reggae, a critique - David and Stuart Wise
PUNK ROCK, NEW WAVE, REGGAE - A CRITIQUE…….
“A taste for change, satisfied by a change of taste.” (Vaneigem)
“For sale anarchy for the masses” (Rimbaud, Clearance Sale)
Punk rock / new wave or something similar had inevitably to come about. Pop music was getting jaded and many people from the record consumer to the journalist wordsmiths of the musical trade papers were aware of that. The wordsmiths at least breathed a sigh of relief – their jobs were no longer in jeopardy for another season at least - as the record buying public were consuming again with something like enthusiasm. In retrospect what is amazing is that the insipidness, (within of course its own terms) of early to mid 1970s rock, didn't produce an active revolt against the musical spectacle but merely the urge to update it.
There had been similar downturns in rock history but this time around, it took ex-revolutionaries from the late 1960s to make the spectacle compelling again, and some moreover who had embraced one of the most radical revolutionary perspective of the late 1960s, that of the Situationists.
Punk coincides with the long, protracted end of post second world war capitalist re-construction. The relatively affluent
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Whatever Happened to Lord Wakering? Talking Slade, McCartney, Our Price, and more with Daryl Easlea
Posted onDecember 15, 2023bywritewyattuk
Catching up with fellow author and freelance writer Daryl Easlea recently, we got the mutual backslapping out of the way fairly quickly, complimenting each other on our recent Slade publications. It’s not just about being complimentary though, preferring the term … Continue reading →
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Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story by Richard Balls – a writewyattuk review
Posted onDecember 19, 2014bywritewyattuk
When it comes to music biographies, Richard B
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