Sinister: The traditional W

[Nick.Dastoor at xxx.uk]

>I was glancing through an old issue of Spin magazine, (well not too
>terrible old January's issue, but February's issue is out already so
>it is old by magazine standards....)>but I found this pic at the back of
>the magazine it's of richard colburn the drummer, for B&S, drr.He's on the
>far left and some unknown girl is giving him the traditional W for
>whatever reason.the other people are just people. no one of importance
>unless it's you.

Huh? Call me old-fashioned but I can only imagine the W stands for wank.  Some
girl giving Richard Colburn a traditional wank on the back pages of Spin
magazine?  Is it traditional in the sense of 'classic wank', with no fancy
finger work, or traditional because Spin magazine has a long-running New Year
feature involving photos of drummers getting hand-jobs from unknown women?

Terribly glad to see some heavyweight pop theorising resurface on the list.
Perhaps we can provoke the thin white duke of Devon to burst, bluddy and raging
from the stomach of the piezoelectric unit and tell us why goth is still an
innovatory force to be reckoned with.

I can't put my finger on why, but I can't imagine Stuart Murdoch's lyrics being
written before the 1990s.   It's not just the references to mobile phones.  I
might like a band, but I couldn't imagine them being so important to me unless
there was something new about them.  And with B&S, it's Stuart Murdoch's lyrics.

Dance music has now matured to the degree that it can't claim to be
intrinsically more modern than inventive music in any other genre.  The last
really new sound I can remember was jungle in about 1992.  That doesn't mean I
don't like it.

However, modern R n' B, hip-hop etc is undoubtedly more 'cutting edge' in
another sense - it's what excites most kids, black and white (at least in urban
areas).  I can't even talk about this without feeling like an old man.  I dunno
- I think it's been that way since the 70s, really.   Comparatively few
worthwhile indie bands have come out of London, because MOBO (I can't bring
myself to spell out the acronym) is the prevailing culture.  Even members of the
shit ones probably only moved here when they went to college.  There's something
about the kind of witty, romantic post-punk pop tradition (hey - snappy!) that
is forever... not London.

Nick xx


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