Anarchy In The U.K.

[Patrick F. Durgin]

Lydon had so little to do with that unfortunate second "Sex Pistols" album
that I think it would be more accurate to refer to early PIL.  McLaren also
attempted to shift the terminology from "punk" to "new wave," hopeless
aesthete that he was.

    Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Beck <rayrena at accesshub.net>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Sunday, November 28, 1999 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Anarchy In The U.K.


>Dennis Redmond wrote:
>
>>"I am an anti-Christ...
>>don't know what I want, but I know how to get it..."
>>
>>A clever rewriting of Hendrix' more hopeful "I know what I want/ but I
>>just don't know... how to go about gettin' it..." ("Manic Depression",
>>Are You Experienced)
>
>Which Cobain equally cleverly (and anti-materialistically) re-revised as "I
>do not want what I have got."
>
>>"or just... another... country
>>Another Council tendency"
>
>Which not-so-bright Megadeth thought was "and other cunt-like tendencies,"
>so they sang it that way. Jeez.
>
>>Strange as it sounds, the Pistols have some of the most sensitive and
>>expressive guitar
>>licks around; you could argue they employed guitars where Bob Marley used
>>vocal instrumentation.
>
>Along with this: Johnny Rotten wanted the SP's to sound like Captain
>Beefheart; Malcom McLaren wanted them to sound like the Stooges and MC5.
>Though it *sounds* like the latter won out, elements on some of the songs
>on *Bollocks*, and moreso on *The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle*, are
>indicators that the former snuck in some complexity and, as Dennis says,
>expressiveness.
>
>Eric
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