Mal ,'Objects In Space'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Trudy - can you do a quick scan of their CD collection to see what they've got? I would recommend a P.i.L (Johnny Rotten/Lydon's post-Pistols, L.A.-based band) album. My favorites are Second Edition, Happy? and 9.
But if they are a super huge Johnny Rotten fan, they already have all of those probably.
What about the farewell drugs?!?
(sorry)
I once read an interesting book on the Sex Pistols. I forget what it was called, but it was a popular book back in the '90s.
I forget what it was called, but it was a popular book back in the '90s.
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage?
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage?
Yeah, that was it.
But if they are a super huge Johnny Rotten fan, they already have all of those probably.
She may not! I shall have someone snoop.
I wonder what Amazon's returns policy is...
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is also good, and covers "punk" from the Velvet Underground through the Sex Pistols (thus putting the Pistols into a broader context). But maybe it focuses too much on the self-destructive punk folks....
But maybe it focuses too much on the self-destructive punk folks....
Heh.
Yeah, I don't want to send the kid cliff-diving. I don't need sanitized pseud-punk, but on the less terrifying end of the spectrum is probably a good call.
If the kid is all smart and intellectual, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century is a good one. It puts punk's drive for negation of societal norms into a much broader context (eg. Dada, the Situationists, etc). Fascinating book. But some have found it hard to get through.
Kid IS smart.
Boucher and I saw a stage production of Lipstick Traces yonks ago. Good times, good times...
Another rec for "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk". I didn't find it too focused on the self-destruction, and I definitely didn't think it glorified it. The way strings a narrative from the Velvets through the early Punk era really helped me get a better grasp of the context in which all that great music took place. Jon B says, "Check it out!"