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Collets, Bookmarks, stuff has always been too stylised, too selftheir own influences. duchen their new reinforce this idea of The album 'The Gift' tends to COSTICIOR. Lies though all these qualities merely ways of broadening Their do thie that tOl ONLY i he Jam lyricshe left's current ems from two developments and the unashamed political slant of Weller's new lyrics. But haven't we been through all this The Tom Band The Clash, The Beat? Are we any further the road?
Interestingly, Weller's sensibilities more with the sixties generation of pop. rebellion and in particular Ray Davis of the Kinks The imagery is pseudofightback is non specific establishment'. I'VE NEVER been that sure of The Jam. Their conscious. Except for their best songs, they've always sounded uncomfortably like the sum of though, lacks of Ray golden years and most of all he lacks Davis' of his SOnES. lilall nerisms often take very little account of what he's singing about (apart from sing hard for rocks and ballads, for his personallty to get in between the audience and what he's When Weller comes on idealistic, he advocates his own virtue as much as he does solidarity with his auWhen Ray Davis What are we living he is singing both for anc The Kinks were never regarded as a groun will revolutionary potential Wyatt's 'Nothing Can Stop Us' (Rough Trade)
at 137 Digbeth, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10-6. closer to mv idea of true radical pop It is a beautiful sounding record homogenous yet diverse, witty yet haunting, clear yet dense.
kaleidoscope of Wyatt's musical and political interests; two Latin American political anthems chic song "Trade Union' written and sung by the Bengali group Dishari; indeed, only one of the tracks 'Born Again Cretin' is written by him Inevitably, the focal point is Robert's own sing ing. There is no distance at all from the lyrics, yet his vocals are so unmannered that one is still able to extract the full power of these deeply committed This is nowhere more evident than in "The Flag', a song which I had shamefully never taken Wyatt betore reinvents the song and its true dignity to me for the first time.
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