Genre: Punk rock
Places I remember: The Warehouse
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: God Save the Queen
Gear costume: Pretty Vacant
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: God Save the Queen
Gear costume: Pretty Vacant
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7
Active compensatory factors: Popular wisdom would have it that the debut album by these punk tearaways is a five-star classic. I think that comes from the influence of the album, rather than the quality on offer.
Active compensatory factors: Popular wisdom would have it that the debut album by these punk tearaways is a five-star classic. I think that comes from the influence of the album, rather than the quality on offer.
When I listen to it now, a few key tracks stand out, but there are also a few fillers. Basically they are a rock'n'roll band with a sneery/confrontational lead singer and some provocative lyrics. The whole thing sounds quite cartoonish nearly fifty years on.
Some of these songs (not all) hold up which is quite remarkable really. Holidays in the Sun, God Save The Queen, Pretty Vacant and Anarchy in the U.K. are all brilliantly performed and simply roar out the speakers. Yes, they reflect the late seventies teenage rage and angst in England superbly. But, they are just pop songs at the end of the day.
Where do they all belong? The band certainly inspired many others to take up the punk challenge, but the movement was short lived and quickly morphed into New Wave. Afterall, it's hard to hold into all that rage against the machine and sustain it into a music career.
No comments:
Post a Comment