"an almost savage torpor", or, plus ca change
Wordsworth, from the Prelude to the Lyrical Ballads, written and published in 1800 The Seventeenth Century is barely over and here is Will...
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Someone recentl y asked Greil Marcus why "sixties and seventies rock crits hate prog so much?" "Why do people hate prog roc...
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Sterling Morrison, quoted in Rob Sheffield's Beatles book I'm guessing the VU hated the Mothers ever since that period when the latt... -
love to listen to this stuff but I'm not sure I really understand it beyond "that's a bunch of cool weird noises in a pattern...
How recent is the quote? It's a superficial 180 from how she presented it during/immediately after punk, but it might be more honest about how she actually thought
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure - this was pretty much her position on punk rock from the mid-1980s onwards, when she'd left ostentatiously behind "childish things" like pop and was writing for glossy magazines and newspapers. A properly adult attitude to and use of music, she averred, would be to consider it as no more than an aural After Dinner mint: a smooth sophisto soundtrack to relaxation or seduction. This was in reference to the superiority of Sade and that kind of thing to all forms of rock music. But I think this particular quote is much more recent than that - I just came across it floating on social media or the internet.
DeleteThe Burchill quote actually pairs well with a punk era quote from someone else that I have been planning to use as part of the sporadic 'antitheatricality and rock' series. So this may pop up again rather soon.