tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614462637791786216.post2624303583510087017..comments2023-09-21T04:25:38.942-05:00Comments on SUBBACULTCHA: MUSI V2010y RockJulia Alekseyevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10442733784488828051noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614462637791786216.post-58195092517355319712009-04-24T01:13:00.000-05:002009-04-24T01:13:00.000-05:00I think Nora = right. Blondie sounds much better t...I think Nora = right. Blondie sounds much better than the Sex Pistols. There. I said it, people.<br />I also think Nora would really like that rock class. I'd take it but I have to take music hum that Spring. Ho hum.Julia Alekseyevahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442733784488828051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614462637791786216.post-16559191563239400762009-04-23T15:25:00.000-05:002009-04-23T15:25:00.000-05:00I'm with you on the Talking Heads but against ...I'm with you on the Talking Heads but against you on Blondie, at the very least with regard to the s/t and Plastic Letters. [By the time we get to Autoamerican and the amazing horror that is "Rapture," the discourse changes.] If you ask me (which technically you haven't), Blondie is right there, stylistically and physically [at Max's I and CBGB] with the Dolls, Patti Smith, Television and other combinations of Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell, etc. [The Talking Heads were there only physically.] If anything, Blondie was more aware of their musical roots in the mid-70s than were, for example, the Sex Pistols ("?!?!"), and (perhaps as a result) always produced music that sounded more...mature (for lack of a better word), and thus perhaps less...punk. And that's the world according to Nora.Nora Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00392970101265353705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614462637791786216.post-75615035388087524382009-04-23T07:05:00.000-05:002009-04-23T07:05:00.000-05:00That's what the "?!?!?!" was for! For serious! I e...That's what the "?!?!?!" was for! For serious! I even have qualms about the Talking Heads being on that list, however much I like 'em. He mostly talked about Blondie to demonstrate a new use of irony in songs... or something...Julia Alekseyevahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442733784488828051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614462637791786216.post-71719436660722263242009-04-23T04:05:00.000-05:002009-04-23T04:05:00.000-05:00Did you "!?!?" the idea of Blondie as a punk band?...Did you "!?!?" the idea of Blondie as a punk band? Because we might have to have a talk.Nora Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00392970101265353705noreply@blogger.com