Rolling Stone Magazine recently released their latest ‘list’, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters” rollingstone.com). Let me repeat that title, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters”. Their descriptive line states “From Brill Building tunesmiths to Punk poets, from Woody Guthrie to Max Martin, the visionaries who defined music history.”
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JAIMIE VERNON – THE PUNKS ARE (STILL) ALRIGHT
Posted in Opinion with tags 1979, American Idiot, Bob Segarini, Calypso, Canadian Music, CBS Records, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Hector, Gates of the West, Green Day, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Strummer, Jointpop, London Calling, London's Burning, lucha libre, Mayaro, Mick Jones, Mil Mascaras, Paul Kimble, Phil Hill, Pink Floyd, Punk, Quicksand, reggae, Sex Pistols, Simply Beautiful, ska, Smashing Pumpkins, The Clash, The Wall, Train In Vain, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad's Burning, WWE on May 30, 2015 by segarini
Smashing Pumpkins leader William “Don’t Call Me Billy” Corgan bleated something about loss of innocence at the end of the 1970s with the band’s only true Pop song called “1979” in the apex of the 1990s version of a counter-culture movement (c/f Grunge, Cobain, Seattle, et al).
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 