did 'the jam' have good lyrics'

boxedjoy

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The people who were willing to engage in the performative hate of the Disco Demolition event weren't casual listeners fed up of the genre's cultural dominance. By all means turn off the radio if the songs they play don't appeal to you, I know I wouldn't have been as into disco if had only been exposed to the ubiquitous songs from the Hen Party Canon, but that's not what happened there. Disco wasn't exclusive to, or limited to, the minorities, but those nuances weren't the point of that reactionary event.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Better stop dreaming of the quiet life, 'cause it's the one we'll never know
And quit running for the runaway bus 'cause those rosy days are few
And stop apologizing for the things you've never done
'Cause time is short and life is cruel but it's up to us to change
This town called malice

Rows and rows of disused milk floats stand dying in the dairy yard
And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts
Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry
It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come fast and furious
In a town called malice, yeah

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, oh
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
This stuff's so alien to me. Nobody really gave a shit what music you were into when I was growing up. You might get called a chav or a mosher, but there wasn't this sense of rivalry or warring factions that comes across when I hear from older people.

That's because you live in middle england. Alls fair in love and war there.

Not in London, where the geneva convension reigns supreme. But as a result of that, the rivalries are much more intense. Middle england rivalries are cuddly, inoffensive. when everything is permitted nothing seems outstanding anymore.
 

thirdform

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In some senses UK hardcore-jungle and banging techno is closer to this early house sound, and detroit techno is a subgenre of this early house.

So actually one could quite convincingly the back 2 chicago and detroit purists are never pure enough.
 

blissblogger

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Well Paul Weller made a Style Council goes house album didn't he? “A New Decade of Modernism' - Polydor refused to put it out. I don't know if it ever got released later.

Style Council did put out a cover of Joe Smooth "Promised Land"

He used to go to a deep house club called High on Hope.
 

Mellsman

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Well Paul Weller made a Style Council goes house album didn't he? “A New Decade of Modernism' - Polydor refused to put it out. I don't know if it ever got released later.

Style Council did put out a cover of Joe Smooth "Promised Land"

He used to go to a deep house club called High on Hope.
At Dingwalls in Camden
Reviewed at the time in Melody Maker - Jane Busman?
Caught my attention
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
get your sick bucket ready Thirdform


Way to ruin something angelic and bittersweet. Vom indeed. The production on the original Joe Smooth track is so widescreen and refracted as well. Like it could float away any time. Not down to earth with a 909 kick. There's a deep sense of ironic loss in the original promised land.
 

william_kent

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Secret Affair - Time For Action

Working class lads taking pride in their appearance, looking sharp, having a laugh

In the wake of The jam there was a 'mod revival' aka 'New Mod" in 1979 - in the south you had the faces of the scene: Secret Affair, The Purple Hearts, The Chords - and from Huddersfield, The Killermeters - and of course you had the 'plastic', fake record company hopefuls / posers The Merton Parkas.. who remembers these now?

well, I sort of do, due to a New Years Eve night in a biker pub where, unexpectedly, the DJ threw on Secret Affair's Time for Action and it 'went off' as the kids say, and i ended up dancing with rock chicks in leopard skin print ( exhibiting their 'animal' side )

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cash in compilations hoping to capitalise on the release of Quadrophenia ( featuring Sting as the 'ace face' ) - bands no one remembers, all lost to history

Look at that scooter adorned with its poxy lights!

None of that shit for the forgotten youth cult of the 80s, the Scooter Boys - I only know about this because my brother was one - chuck all that mod shit in the bin, scooter boys rode the moped equivalent of a 'chopper' - cut down, built for speed - no parkas, they're just going to get in the way, it was all US flight jackets and army surplus gear, nothing that's going to get tangled up

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Scooter Boys!

My brother told me stories of Scooter Boy weekenders, necking as much acid and speed as you could, running down the high street of some seaside town head butting any fucker who got in the way, all to a soundtrack of Northern Soul

in a sense, anti-Weller, with his condescending "Style Council", the very name smacks of elitism and judgemental attitudes..
 
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