PS: It WAS great hearing a guy associated, later, with Runaway Train taunting the cops.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:38 AM, <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> From what I have heard, Let It Be tends to be a favorite amongst fans.
> My favorite song of theirs is 'Skyway' and the guy from Soul Asylum
> taunting the cops in The Replacements Stink.
> As to the Pistols, Never Mind The Bullocks was a record I heard so
> many times when I was younger, I never have to hear it again. I
> still think its a good record, but its somehow become fully
> assimilated.
>
> robert wood
>
> > Me, I liked Wire's Pink Flag and The Gang of Four's Entertainment more at
> > the time, and now.
> > But I'm also still wank enough to prefer Marquee Moon, most of the
> > Minutemen's output and Meat Puppets II to any of it.
> > Then again, I liked The Replacements' Let it Be more'n I liked Hootenanny
> > and according to some, that's bad.
> > I'm thinking I've got a little too much art school envy.
> > A
> >
> > PS: I guess in this vein, Pere Ubu's Final Solution has had a staying
> > power
> > little else has had... that sound of nuclear destruction..., damn.
> > PPS: Did Lydon steal/borrow/share that lynch the landlord thing from
> > Flipper?
> > PPPS: Learned today that the Meatmen (originally from just nextdoor in
> > Lansing, MI - as were the Crucifux) are gonna tour Europe this winter,
> > 'cuz
> > you suck.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, October 25, 2010 3:39 pm, Angelus Novus wrote:
> >>
> >> > The Sex Pistols were rather dire guitar-driven sludge rock.
> >>
> >> "Never Mind the Bollocks" is one the greatest albums of all time.
> >> Tectonic
> >> layers of proletarian rage, scintillating lyrics -- "your future dream
> >> is
> >> a shopping scheme" -- all combined with a deep sense of musicality
> >> (listen
> >> for the animal howls on "Submission"). The Pistols wrote the summary
> >> epitaph of the thirty years of neoliberal regression to come, precisely
> >> because neoliberalism was zombified rot from the very beginning.
> >>
> >> -- DRR
> >>
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