Simon Reynolds' "Rip It Up And Start Again" yet, or can point me to an in-depth review ?
I'd like to know more about this before paying 30â¬...
I'd like to know more about this before paying 30â¬...
Anyone here read ...
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simon reynolds Wrote:the initial big bang of punk scattered shards hurtling outwards in all directions, each fragment nurturing its own version of what punk had been 'all about' and its own vision of how best to further the spirit. you can feel the urgency in the careers of individual bands too: the giant leaps made across three albums by talking heads (more songs about buildings and food, fear of music, remain in light) or pil (public image, metal box, flowers of romance). there was a total commitment to modernism and innovation, an absolute confidence that there were still virgin frontier zones for rock music to explore, an impatience to get to the future ahead of everybody else. this is absolutely spot on 
Thanks, that Observer article is really good.
For anyone interested, I found another interesting comment on the book and postpunk in general here : http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/ I think I'm sold on it now. 
post punk is my era
i'm going to have get this 
ordered from amazon for £10
in fur-ness...
 if you liked 'energy flash', this bound to be the bollocks! reynolds' writing is usually good enough to get me well excited abut music i've never heard...
* Wrote:Simon Reynolds' "Rip It Up And Start Again" yet, or can point me to an in-depth review ? it just arrived  shit, this is going to be one massive nostalgia trip
I read that as "anyone here dead".....and was thinking to myself "well I'm not physically - but very possibly mentally"
Yeah looking forward to this. 'bring the noise' was good too.
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