I was going to rip into the Band Aid video for the new version of "Don't They Know It's Christmas" that premiered on TV tonight. To call it dreadful would be to damn it with faint praise. I've no problem with people donating to a cause, provided that 100% of that donation gets to where it's needed. The value of the raw material and press acreage could surely be valued and directed toward those coffers. Better that than to manufacture all the landfill that the hard copies of the cd, etc will undoubtedly end up as. Anyway, I find the whole thing fairly reprehensible and I'm sure that the artists concerned will enjoy a bumper festering season in terms of sales of their individual crimes against music.
Anyways, I found that the Z/28 site works now so you can check that out.
Also, the BARRACUDAS BLOG is up and running so have a scoot around there also.
Koch are set to release a comp called New York Rocks! in January which features all your faves. Directed at a younger crowd who've been sold a pup in the form of The Str*kes, etc. I wonder if this won't be a tad too spicy for that palette. Anyways...
Regarding the NYC punk comp: back in the 80s Lenny Kaye was asked what he'd put on a 70s Nuggets set, and this is what he came up with (the qoute on Patti Smith is from the original article):
ReplyDeleteTelevision -Friction
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Richard Hell - Blank Generation
Victims ("I Think") - I Want Head
Blondie - X Offender
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
Wayne County - Max's Kansas City
Ramones - Beat On The Brat
Mink Deville - Cadillac Walk
Tuff Darts - All For The Love Of Rock & Roll
Devo - Satisfaction
Suicide - Cheree
Pere Ubu - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Avengers - Car Crash
Miamis - We Deliver 24 Hours A day
Brats - First Rock Star On The Moon
Kaye neglected to name any Patti Smith song; for several obvious reasons,'Gloria' has to be the choice.
Not strictly NYC, but still pretty interesting....