All the sins blamed on “disco” (such as it was at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s) — cocaine, amyl nitrate, sexually transmitted disease, The Ritchie Family, Andy Gibb — are nothing compared to the ugliness of “Disco Sucks.” The stigma’s so powerful that even now, nobody would dare call it disco. It was “house” for a while, and these days people call it “EDM,” a clumsy catch-all acronym that stands for “electronic dance music,” although it sounds more like another disco-era sexually transmitted disease. (“I’m sorry, but the only remedy for EDM is a series of painful injections, taking this foul-smelling tincture six times a day and applying this stinky salve to the affected area…”)
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Justin Smallbridge: New York City Noise
Posted in Opinion with tags Blondie, CBGB's, DBAWIS, Disco, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Justin Smallbridge, Kool Herc, music, New York, New York Dolls, Nicky Siano, Origins of Disco, Origins of Punk, Punk, Ramones, Records, Studio 54 on August 19, 2013 by segariniCameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll- Start Spreading The News
Posted in Opinion with tags Blondie, Cameron Carpenter, CBGB's, Chrissy Amphlett, Darryl Vickers, DBAWIS, Divinyls, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five MC’s, Great New York Bars, Jill Sobule, music, Patti Smith, Records, Shanghai Cowgirl, Television, The Beastie Boys, the Bovine Tiki Bar, The New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Strokes, The Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground on April 25, 2013 by segarini
Be it in Canada, or while visiting our neighbours to the south, I have always been an east coast type of guy. Give me Halifax over Vancouver, St. John’s over Victoria and, most definitely New York over Los Angeles. In the past I spent a lot of time in both New York and L.A. as back in the good old days these were the two epicentres of the record biz. L.A. can have its charms in the short term, what with the weather and the ocean, but it is strange to be in a town where nobody walks. I walk everywhere and think nothing of a quick jaunt from the Beach in Toronto to downtown. People in New York walk. Manhattan streets are an obstacle course of fast moving people, yellow cabs, constant honking and ever present sirens. There is an energy and attitude in NYC that is sadly lacking in L.A..
JAIMIE VERNON – A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
Posted in Opinion with tags Billy Joel, Bloomberg, Bob Dylan, Broadway., CBGB's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Sinatra, Hurricane Sandy, Jaimie Vernon, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, music, New York, Ramones, Records, XTC on November 3, 2012 by segarini
I can’t help thinking about New York right now. They were part of a long, sweeping plan by an angry Mother Nature to be stamped out by hurricane Sandy. They weren’t the only ones. The eastern US seaboard was targeted and subsequently attacked with a weather system unseen since, well, hurricane Katrina destroyed the Gulf coast not that long ago. That storm destroyed my favourite city in the world – New Orleans. Now Sandy has destroyed my second favourite city – New York. That’s not to take away from the devastation in New Jersey or those who lost their lives on the replica of the HMS Bounty that sank off the coast of the Carolinas. Those stories remain sobering as do the deaths of those people, mostly on Staten Island, killed in the wake of the ocean’s fury.
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