Tag: sex pistols
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RIP Pete Shelley
Somehow missed the news that Pete Shelley, frontman of the Buzzcocks has died. Loved his music ever since I heard ‘Ever Fallen In Love’ so many years ago… What Do I Get is a seminal punk song, and one I love greatly, as well as a lot of their back catalogue, they really were one…
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The story of I Feel Love
Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ – the song that changed the future of music is 40 years old as of July (sorry punk, Sex Pistols et al but it really did change the course of history, pop of the last 4 decades would not exist without it and the techniques it pioneered, whereas punk was…
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RC 271: Pop Is Dead #6 – Dead Pod Stars
This will be my monument This will be a beacon when I’m gone… So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love A bumper self-indulgent 10th anniversary show – 2 shows in one! If you listen at the 1:30 mark you’ll realise why it’s so long 😉 First half…
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Internet famous and expectations of fame
Love this video by Innuendo Studios analysing one case of ‘internet fame’ and meltdown, specifically Phil Fish who made Fez. The irony is all the people in the comments who haven’t actually watched the video, or missed the point completely and come to grumble about a few ‘internet famous’ people. Clue: the video is not…
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RC 259: Pop Is Dead #4 – We Hate The Kids (And Rock and Roll)
Fourth in the Pop is Dead series, and it’s all about hate – hating rock and roll, hating the kids, hating the hangers on, hating the Spice Girls, hating the fakers, hating music even. Oh and a little bit about Britpop False Memory Syndrome / Fake Nostalgia. The cover features as well as the classic…
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Stan and Ollie in ‘Pretty Vacant’
Oh I LOVE this. A childhood growing up watching Laurel & Hardy and Harold Lloyd, I think people forget how transgressive and anarchic those films were. Sex Pistols are the icing on the cake in this video from qualityJackson. Here’s the Liveleak version for the inevitable time this gets taken down or limited on YouTube…