As you can tell, today we listened to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Talking Heads, Blondie (?!?!), among others that I didn't recognize.
Note, of course, the "Fuck you Johnny Ramone!", my crappy little doodle of the Ramones logo, a little "Crap" sign next to songs I liked and a star with an exclamation point next to ones I did. Makes me *almost* wish I didn't save my core requirements for the last year so that I could actually take classes I enjoy, at least before entering the stifling single-department hell of graduate school...
4 comments:
Did you "!?!?" the idea of Blondie as a punk band? Because we might have to have a talk.
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...
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.
I think Nora = right. Blondie sounds much better than the Sex Pistols. There. I said it, people.
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.
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