tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post6789533285713444034..comments2024-03-27T11:18:59.924+00:00Comments on Sun Dried Sparrows: All that glitters...Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-8295290361947953462013-09-15T18:51:06.111+01:002013-09-15T18:51:06.111+01:00Oh Yve thank you. The media witch hunt: you've...Oh Yve thank you. The media witch hunt: you've hit the nail on the head. Thankfully not mine with a brick.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-39828617454621388962013-09-15T18:26:04.356+01:002013-09-15T18:26:04.356+01:00Thanks!
If it's how you feel, Old Pa, then you...Thanks!<br />If it's how you feel, Old Pa, then you just can't argue with that.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-33738821691409558282013-09-15T18:23:05.941+01:002013-09-15T18:23:05.941+01:00Got my cuppa now and realise I just repeated here ...Got my cuppa now and realise I just repeated here pretty much what I said in the post already...d'oh. <br /><br />So I really appreciate all the points everyone's brought up to add to it, thank you!Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-50371480658032038832013-09-15T18:01:10.119+01:002013-09-15T18:01:10.119+01:00Brilliant thought provoker C. I bought GGs first a...Brilliant thought provoker C. I bought GGs first album and pretty much liked his stuff and Kamp image, 'I want be in your gang!'<br />But when you think what he does and is obsessed by, you get that kind of image when you hear his name or music. I think I would rather not listen to anything by him anymore, I would rather not. Old Pa's Cornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367815328789444775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-10679132611160395782013-09-15T17:50:32.699+01:002013-09-15T17:50:32.699+01:00Thanks all for listening and joining in.... much a...Thanks all for listening and joining in.... much appreciated.<br />I threw the question(s) out there because I was aware of the basic ridiculousness of some of the thoughts that were entering my head whilst listening to an ostensibly innocuous record! I had this vague niggle of, well I suppose it was paranoia! "Oh what if someone thinks...?" ...but why...?! I hadn't done anything bad! <br /><br />Yet this paranoid/vigilante/censorship approach seems to be all around us in the fact that once someone becomes persona non grata, you just don't hear/see their past output on the radio or TV, regardless of the context of the time, and anyone who risks stepping outside of that might become targeted as being questionable or, at the very least, offensive and insensitive, themselves. All the repeats of ToTP with Savile and DLT presenting, or Gary Glitter performing, are cut...the BBC etc must think it's the only decent, tasteful thing to do. But at the same time when you break it down, acknowledging a person's existence in a role/creative pursuit doesn't have to be perceived as akin to condoning their transgressions or glorifying them, it's part of history, whether tasteless/offensive or not. There seem to be so many double standards too, just to complicate it all further.... <br />And all this without even continuing the wider subject re. artists, writers, politics/bands... I need a cuppa tea.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-91460217260294083472013-09-15T15:03:28.984+01:002013-09-15T15:03:28.984+01:00Have you ever seen Dave Chapelle's court room ...Have you ever seen Dave Chapelle's court room skit about Michael Jackson?<br /><br />He just answers every accusation by referring to Thriller.<br /><br />Mr Jackson did you...<br /><br />Thriller. I wrote Thriller.<br /><br />Mr Jackson is it true...<br /><br />Thriller Nigga...I wrote Thrilla<br /><br />Mr Jackson...<br /><br />Thriller.<br /><br />Hilarious.e.f. bartlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940814285264472785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-42220289187629889462013-09-15T15:01:16.209+01:002013-09-15T15:01:16.209+01:00You got a mess on your hands here.
If I concerned...You got a mess on your hands here.<br /><br />If I concerned myself with the political views of musicians there'd be a lotta dead air around here. I figured out early I'd just have to ignore it...I wasn't not going to listen to the Minutemen or Gang of Four. <br /><br />Then there's a song like Fight the Power from Public Enemy...I'm completely sold out for P.E. but, consider Fight the Power. Love it...listening to it right now. Mostly it's just a series of fuzzy slogans over a titanic beat. The best line in the whole thing is based on a falsehood...Elvis was not simple, not plain and, according to black musicians that knew him in these parts, not a racist...but, when Flavor Flav pops up and says "Motherfuck him and John Wayne" it breaks me up every time. More to the point, false or not, it conveys the sentiment they're trying to express perfectly.<br /><br />It's doubtful that Orwell ever actually [Shot] an Elephant or witnessed a particular Hanging but,....<br /><br />Very messy.<br /><br />What do you do with Wagner...or Martin Heidegger? Ezra Pound?<br /><br />"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;<br />Petals on a wet, black bough."<br /><br />What has the crushing beauty of that to do with Pound being a fascist?<br /><br />I would say Beauty is Beauty, Truth is Truth...Artist are merely conduits, their personal foibles and whacky beliefs aside. That's a particular philosophical stance that has implications well beyond the issue at hand though. <br /><br />It's also nearly impossible to maintain such a stance...which points to important distinction between taste and judgement. <br /><br />In my judgement Rock N Roll (I and II) is an almost perfect expression of the form...unstoppable but, thanks to Glitter, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.<br /><br /><br /><br /> e.f. bartlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940814285264472785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-53673511105702825912013-09-14T22:24:03.718+01:002013-09-14T22:24:03.718+01:00'Rock On'? That's simply brilliant and...'Rock On'? That's simply brilliant and not problematic in any way. I'm puzzled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-5232945980745010332013-09-14T22:18:27.741+01:002013-09-14T22:18:27.741+01:00I feel the same way about songs from my youth, esp...I feel the same way about songs from my youth, especially 'Rock On' by David Essex. And your new profile pic? ADORABLE.Dr. MVMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13808985995816360571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-72463622889193684842013-09-14T21:03:35.064+01:002013-09-14T21:03:35.064+01:00This post says so much, C. I've had many of th...This post says so much, C. I've had many of the same thoughts and suffered the same dilemma, particularly when it comes to GG. When I was a kid I actually owned his first two albums and dearly loved 'Rock and Roll (Parts 1 and 2)', 'Hello, Hello', 'Do You Wanna Touch' and, yes, 'I Didn't Know I Loved You' (we , too, used to sing the sausage roll line but were obviously not inspired enough to think of 'hairy hole'). Now, how I would dearly love to be able to enjoy those 'Bubble-glam' classics but I just can't. I know that if I heard any of them again I'd want to jump around the room (yes, at 52!) but then the come down would kick in when I'd remember what a despicable creep Mr. Gadd is. Sad, truly sad. Will we ever be able enjoy them again? I doubt it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com