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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 17, 2021 10:52:01 GMT
The Sex pistols were pub rock with intentionally provocative, childish lyrics.
Their only album a rock classic.
Lydon however is a grade A twat.
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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 17, 2021 10:53:34 GMT
To be fair Quo during 71-75 were to me one of the early pre punk acts. I mean they were the total opposite of bands like Yes and Floyd. They made short songs with guitar bass and drums and were very loud. By that logic, Buddy Holly was punk. Straight forward rock songs.
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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 17, 2021 11:15:25 GMT
Phil Collins once said that music fans had eclectic tastes and likely to go and see Genesis one week and then Siouxsie and the Banshees the next and that it was the media that put up the barricades. Possibly a grain of truth in that, though my experience in the 70s and into the 80s had been that music fans tended to gravitate to specific genre and would wear the expected uniforms eg Denim n' Leather of their chosen bands and fairly blinkered. Generalising I know, but musicians do tend to be of eclectic tastes, part of their condition but they are also aware of keeping up appearances in terms of 'credibility' of the times. The Weller syndrome of not being able to say that he had been taught his first few chords by Rick Parfitt or that Quo had lent them some amps. Many years had to pass before they could be open and honest. Lydon enjoyed Prog rock in a Van Der Graaf Generator kind of a way and his first love was Cliff Richard. Steve Jones of the Pistols has (in more recent times!) said that he was influenced by Tom Scholz of the band Boston in terms of guitar sounds. I started buying records in the 1970s and never saw any issue with having a broad range of music. I used to have tapes on one side would be Tina Turner on the other Discharge. I could listen to The stooges or Johnny Thunders and then listen to Genesis. It was completely normal for people to have a wide range of tastes, still is in my circle of friends. But we all know its all a media game that the bands, fans and media buy into. When journalists would buy into that bands were satanic etc.
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uwe
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Post by uwe on Oct 17, 2021 16:46:52 GMT
With the chat about The Motors in this thread reminded me of the Reading Festival line up in '78
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Post by uwe on Oct 17, 2021 16:47:58 GMT
Yes, they did open for them. I would imagine that the Quo crowd liked them.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Oct 17, 2021 18:03:08 GMT
To be fair Quo during 71-75 were to me one of the early pre punk acts. I mean they were the total opposite of bands like Yes and Floyd. They made short songs with guitar bass and drums and were very loud. By that logic, Buddy Holly was punk. Straight forward rock songs. In 77 some Punks said that about the Shadows. Their 20 Golden Greats album was no 1 for 6 weeks tha year.
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Post by matt on Oct 18, 2021 8:17:06 GMT
Some interesting insights into taste here that I’ve enjoyed reading. I think when you’re younger music is a large part of your identity and sense of belonging. As you get older it becomes less important.
Last few years I’ve been really getting into Miles Davis (up to Bitches Brew) and 1970s African funk. It’s all good
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Post by cactuspete on Oct 24, 2021 18:50:51 GMT
From my 1977 diary: The singles I bought in August: Rah Band 'The Crunch', Eddie & The Hot Rods 'Do Anything you Wanna Do', Baccarat, 'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie', Showaddywaddy 'You Got what it Takes', Mink Deville 'Spanish Stroll' and The Stranglers 'Something Better Change.' I was some mixed-up teenager with all that going on!!! But as Uwe says above, all this stuff was coming on the radio and you dug their groove and the swing (I know, Baccarat! What was I thinking!), listened out for the song title, then you went to the record shop and bought what you liked. There was no niche music then - it was all just MUSIC! Exactly! It's music! You don't have to justify it to anyone...Your soul does that for you. A group of girls sent me a link to Ed Sheeran's latest recently and they said, "Now you can't tell me this is a shit song! It's amazing!!" I never listened, I just wrote back and said, "If you're trying to justify your taste to a bollocks like me, it must be shit!"
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Post by cactuspete on Oct 24, 2021 18:51:01 GMT
From my 1977 diary: The singles I bought in August: Rah Band 'The Crunch', Eddie & The Hot Rods 'Do Anything you Wanna Do', Baccarat, 'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie', Showaddywaddy 'You Got what it Takes', Mink Deville 'Spanish Stroll' and The Stranglers 'Something Better Change.' I was some mixed-up teenager with all that going on!!! But as Uwe says above, all this stuff was coming on the radio and you dug their groove and the swing (I know, Baccarat! What was I thinking!), listened out for the song title, then you went to the record shop and bought what you liked. There was no niche music then - it was all just MUSIC! Exactly! It's music! You don't have to justify it to anyone...Your soul does that for you. A group of girls sent me a link to Ed Sheeran's latest recently and they said, "Now you can't tell me this is a shit song! It's amazing!!" I never listened, I just wrote back and said, "If you're trying to justify your taste to a bollocks like me, it must be shit!"
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Post by cactuspete on Oct 24, 2021 18:51:25 GMT
From my 1977 diary: The singles I bought in August: Rah Band 'The Crunch', Eddie & The Hot Rods 'Do Anything you Wanna Do', Baccarat, 'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie', Showaddywaddy 'You Got what it Takes', Mink Deville 'Spanish Stroll' and The Stranglers 'Something Better Change.' I was some mixed-up teenager with all that going on!!! But as Uwe says above, all this stuff was coming on the radio and you dug their groove and the swing (I know, Baccarat! What was I thinking!), listened out for the song title, then you went to the record shop and bought what you liked. There was no niche music then - it was all just MUSIC! Exactly! It's music! You don't have to justify it to anyone...Your soul does that for you. A group of girls sent me a link to Ed Sheeran's latest recently and they said, "Now you can't tell me this is a shit song! It's amazing!!" I never listened, I just wrote back and said, "If you're trying to justify your taste to a bollocks like me, it must be shit!"
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