C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Sex Pistols
By driftglass Monday Oct 27, 2008 7:00pmHow can so many people who obsess over sex and guns not love a band named for their two most favoritest things in the whole world?
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How can so many people who obsess over sex and guns not love a band named for their two most favoritest things in the whole world?
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I think all the republican talking points have made me paranoid. I went to read the onenewsnow website and when each page loaded the red light on my webcam blinked.
[fear]he's watching me I tell you [/fear]
We are entering bat country, wear a hat ;)
Just steal your "favourite" rock star's Les Paul and ATTACK!!!!
I wonder if Steve still has Mick Ronson's old guitar that he stole and played in this video. Now that Ronson is dead, maybe it should be given to his kids, or not.
He meant it, man. What ever happened to protest music?
It's definitely not mainstream - aside from a little Green Day and Pearl Jam but if you want to hear something very smart and current, I can direct you to something.
Not sure if you have any apprehensions towards hip-hop, this is something smarter than your average boo-boo rapper.
The song is a response to an incident that occurred during the RNC last month. A journalist from Rhode Island was there to get some answers from the attendees. What he was involved in was a simple peaceful assembly that the GOP counteracted by contracting a police force to arrest and detain the participants. Many were jailed without the proper means to represent themselves in a court of law. Crazy stuff.
Sage Francis, a friend of the journalist released a track about the situation and consequently created a website to help the cause.
www.conspiracytoriot.com
on that site but that link you posted has a most shocking story of our America turned topsy turvy as I have read in a long time. I think everyone here needs to read it, if for no other reason than to give us a reminder why it's so important that this election cycle needs to bring a major sea change in American politics toward a sane center. Arrests without cause or provocation, citizens being harassed and intimidated with a system that was built to protect them? Can't happen here? Happened here! More and more my country has been turning into the USSR that the nuns in my Catholic elementary school used to scare us with (we're talking early 70s here) and I really don't like it. This has to stop.
If Sid was alive today he would be laughing his socks off.
Heres John Lyndon aka 'Johnny Rotten' and Leftfield from 1993
substitute Wall Street for Hollywood ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKIqW3cikgU
poetic or what
I was in the movie "SID & NANCY"!
but I am curious about your participation in said movie, lafin. Details, please!
I had a walk on; literally, the camera followed me down the street to a theater where a crowd had formed!
Way cool, even!
I watched "Sid & Nancy"
i know somebody named "nancy."
and I also know somebody named "Sid". He's a fine fellow.
Gibson Les Paul Custom ---> cranked tube amp (Fender, Marshall, etc..) = awesome.
sounds a lot like the McPalin camp
hey, look on the bright side. we have green day instead of the sex pistols railing against the establishment.
too bad their candy-asses will never hold a candle to anything off that bollocks album. they simply have no poetry in their soul.
They flow into each other seamlessly on the album
Green day - Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtPhz8RnPw
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxfpMGLMZ7Y
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greenday/holid...
strong stuff esp from a signed band, and they did this before it was trendy to bash Bush.
I love Steve Jones' cleaning ladies' hat.
jonesy didnt start the trend, although he loves to put across the myth
i have a friend from san diego who created two clothing trends...both years before anyone else
one was the hanky hat...which he started wearing in 75...the other was the showing of boxers, pulled up higher than his pants....also in 75....i swear to god its true...we talk about it all the time....we were totaly freaked when the sex pistols showed up in america, and low and behold, there was jonesy with the hanky hat
we were even more freaked out, when rappers started with the low hanging pants and boxers....cuz my friend is a white dude from the suburbs
now his kids just think hes wierd
"He meant it, man. What ever happened to protest music?"
It's still here, you just have to be in the right place.
http://www.musicalfamilytree.net/video/video/...
i still really get a rise outta that. whatta brat, whatta whirl, whatta life
is it just me, or is bruce springsteen the vaguest lyrically in terms of protest lyrics, in an almost play-it-safe kind of way? haven't heard him do any nader benefits.
Believe it or not, I once talked to a self-described "conservative punk" who loved the Sex Pistols, claimed their lyrics proved they were anti-abortion. This was in the US, of course, can't imagine anyone thinking that way anywhere else.
I've met a few of those myself. It's amazing how some people can interpret things. Then again, what is "Bodies" about anyway?
"Bodies" does indeed, from a reading of the lyrics, or rather my impression from listening to them, like, a thousand times, seem to be about abortion.
"She was a girl from (birmingham?) she just had an abortion/she was a case of insanity".......etc.....
"Die little baby in the lavatory/die little baby screaming/Mommy! I'm not an animal"
The song clearly references abortion, and the tone seems distinctly "anti" as is the tone of all their songs. I am clearly not a CON and just because the member of the Pistols who wrote the song may have been against abortion, that does not make them "conservative" clearly.
This vid never gets old for me.It still raises the hair up on the back of my neck.Such a blistering sneering attack on the good old status quo.One of the greatest rock songs ever spit out.
Man I havent heard the sex pistols in so long! I loved Sid and Nancy. I'll have to watch that again. I saw Johnny Rotten on one of the daytime tv court shows. Judge Judy but I don't know if thats right. I think he won the case.
The best Pistols album in my mind is "Spunk," the original demo with Glenn Matlock on bass. It's out on CD now, but only as an import.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGnOIBAYSg
i did! he was auditioning bass players and i drove up from san diego to a rehearsal studio in north hollywood around 1994 or so...bought a p-bass just for that (i'm a guitarist). i was going to san diego city college back then and wrote a piece for the school paper about the experience like it was no big deal...i also learned all those tunes off that album in like one or two days before.
I remember he had a dog named winston he brought along and he was a bit thicker than back in the day...had to sell the p-bass after that!
Neither that song nor that album ever really impressed me. Any number of other bands did better work. For example, Stiff Little Fingers' first single, "Suspect Device," hits the political nail on the head in a way Bollocks never did and is better music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYoNYuUVk0
it's just rocking against the establishment. Iggy did it before there was a term called "punk rock"
Hell, Cash was punk rock before them all.
Well, I'll give it to Iggy, Cash, Verlaine, Reed, David Thomas and a host of other folks. Given how involved McClaren was in their genesis, and that they collapsed after making maybe, maybe 1/2 of a great album, I just think the Pistols are overrated by a huge margin. ESPECIALLY when considered in the light of Iggy, Cash, et. al.
Yes, Johnny, we do feel cheated.
Vom
I'm in Love with Your Mom
Bad Brains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMRTGv82Zo&fe...
"says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenju-Daron"
Little more than a Malcolm Mclaren moneymaking scheme.
jonesy, matlock, cook and rotten were talented
mcclaren created the crazy buzz about the band...and pushed them to take on syd....but they were much more than the monkees
the monkees were much more than the monkees
and im not sure if mclaren really ever made any real money off the band
The Monkees were better. At least they outgrew their marketing department.
john lyndon & public image ltd, doing this is not a love song, over @skippy.
Roger Miller - Dang Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qcDOAwgtQ
and Roger Miller's scat. Classic.
My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsdArGL55k&fe...
"What If the Beatles Were Irish?" by Roy Zimmerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjH4ZqwOB4&fe...
"The Man, the Myth, the McCain" by Roy Zimmerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXNPPRYxrk&fe...
Very impressive and most excellent!
"To Be a Liberal" by Roy Zimmerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qgiNPVpSM&fe...
Good night to all. Sweet dreams.
ramones
i wanna be sedated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc
ever recorded
7 and 7 is....love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStzQW6XVkM&fe...
rant I've ever heard. The immortal Dead Kennedy's: The Stars and Stripes of Corruption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGXF3gXXKw
Another great political rant: Jello Biafra and Canadian hardcore punks D.O.A. Full Metal Jackoff. In two parts.
Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9-97gZaM-c
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHiJDTgBeq4&fe...
These are two of my all time favorite songs. Also, if you ever get a chance, listen to some of Jello's spoken word stuff. He was warning us of the rise of the religious right/christofascism back in the 1980's. He, Frank Zappa and Dee Snider were prominent in the fight against Tipper Gore and the P.M.R.C.
i remember when he ran for mayor of sf
feinstein didnt like it and made the city change the rules...one had to run under their given name
jello was and will remain, one of the greatest spokespersons for the progressive movement from the music industry....ever
kill the poor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWO4JxM3nDc
California Uber Alles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNh6BVZgJ0&fe...
Eric has devolved into a self-important pissant, based upon my personal experience dealing with him at a music conference. Totally preoccupied with media exposure and financial gain.
I'd rank him higher than the pistols, though :)
dont fuck with my hero worship
and dont begrudge the man for wanting to make a buck...he didnt make much during his years with the band, thanks to the corporate music industry and the pmrc trying to keep his records out of stores, and his music from playing on the radio
Love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW1NHUhJmwQ&fe...
I loved the Sex Pistols....then...as I grew up a little...I learned that they weren't really all that punk rock...they were not unlike a boy band of the late 90's, just with funky hair, clothes and body odor and of course MUCH better music. The manager, Malcolm McClaren put the all together, and made a fortune on them.
Ahh the Sex Pistols, the Ultimate Rebels without a Cause.
I seem to remember the hanky hat being frequently worn by those zany guys in Monty Python. And that was before 1975.
And Steve Jones rocks on guitar!
coming out of a small grocery store in my California beach neighborhood. It was such a weird place to see him, especially given that he's so pale. He was all orange hair, earrings, and plaid. I'm glad to see that he hasn't lost his attitude.
wonder why jonesy hasnt had him on the show?
i would love to meet him and thank him...he almost got me kicked out of my boarding school
its a long story, so i wont tell it...but it was my lone act of rebellion at that school
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