Reply #67: nah, I just like messing with the young folk [View All]

[tigereye]

c'mon, were you guys even born at the time? (I'm teasing some here)

LIke I said to primate, we didn't think about it - no one knew it would have a historical context. For me, it was a bunch of drunken artists and left-wingers who taught themselves to play instruments - guys and females - when females didn't do that kind of thing. It was amazingly exciting to hear The Ramones and The Clash and The Pistols and Lora Logic and The Slits, etc., when very little music sounded like that. It was so amazingly fast and nlike anything I had heard previously.

The historical context in America was incredible blandness of music during the Carter years, then Ronald Reagan, horrible world events and recession. I know about the political context in England to some extent, as well, mostly from having read about it, sure.


I like to joke about Wiki stuff, since a lot of the music stuff seems to be written by folks who look back at it, didn't experience it, and didn't seem to understand it - at the least the experiences I had - and making it into something almost academic, which it wasn't. Well, maybe if the wiki stuff were written by Legs McNeil, or Richard Hell, or some of the NY/London denizens of the time.


I've read a lot of stuff about the era, certainly, but I'm not particularly interested in penning a dissertation about it - not my field. I think England's Dreaming is a pretty reasonable delineation, but it is a bit turgid and post-modern.

anyway. I'm just in a bit of a contentious mood - must be the holidays!

I'll ponder this more and find some citations to back up my meta-analysis!