I’m going to kill this book if it finishes me. After a pleasant spell with some bands I quite like, we’re back in the region of “…and then SS Child Sex Party reformed as Party in pursuit of mainstream success…”
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Nothing new here. Godley and Creme had already recorded a similar burial in 1977 using a Sennheiser Dummy Head, an old door at the foot of stairs, a shovel and some dirt, for Consequences.
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Finished Rip it Up and Start Again. What did I learn? - That Malcolm McClaren was a wrong 'un and I will never touch anything he was associated with ever again - PiL were named after Muriel Spark's The Public Image...
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- Many bands start out trying to make deliberately unlistenable music and unwatchable performances and then decide the *really* subversive thing to do is sign to a major label, get in the charts and make loads of money. Over and over and over again.
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