“Stacy’s Mom,” Fountains of Wayne and the Many Imaginary Hits of Adam Schlesinger Trash Theory 2022-07-29 | Despite its name, Power Pop as a genre has often failed to accrue the popularity necessary to set the charts ablaze. Fountains of Wayne’s brand of detail-rich storytelling and bittersweet character study twinned with a sugary 90s alt rock crunch did little to change that. They were the bizarro Weezer, loved by critics but underrated by the general music listening public. That was until they created the “second-catchiest song ever written about a girlfriend's parent." [Ben Greenman, The New Yorker, June 2003] By that point though, one of their songwriters had already racked up his fair share of fantasy pop gems for Hollywood. This is the Story of “Stacy’s Mom” and the Many Imaginary Hits of Adam Schlesinger.#stacysmom #fountainsofwayne #musicdocumentary SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:41 The Beginning: Fountains of Wayne05:59 Faking 60s Pop: "That Thing You Do!"10:59 Utopia Parkway & Josie and the Pussycats18:59 That First Real Life Hit: "Stacy's Mom"26:00 The Aftermath of "Stacy's Mom"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory#IanDury #Punk #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.
Smalltown Boy, Bronski Beat & Being Openly Gay in Eighties Pop | New British Canon Trash Theory 2024-05-25 | 1984 was a particularly flamboyant year for British Pop. “Relax” overcame its radio ban to spend five weeks at UK number one. George Michael alluded to his future solo aspirations with “Careless Whisper.” Pete Burns’ Dead Or Alive proved the combination of Hi NRG and Stock Aitken Waterman equalled chart-success. And Freddie Mercury dressed in drag for the “I Want to Break Free” video. But aside from the two core members of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, most of these men were living some kind of closeted existence. However, also debuting in 1984 were Bronski Beat. Fronted by Jimmy Somerville, a Scottish socialist with the voice of a disco diva packed within his buzz cut 5 foot 4 frame, they were three openly gay men writing honestly about their lives. Their melancholic debut single is a synth-pop escape, from a smalltown and its small minds, with its destination simply being somewhere better, both for themselves and LGBTQ+ Pop. This is New British Canon and This is the Story of “Smalltown Boy”.#Smalltownboy #bronskibeat #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction01:28 Jimmy Somerville & The Start of Bronski Beat08:29 Creating "Smalltown Boy"17:05 "Why?" & The Age of Consent23:06 The Split, The Communards & Enduring LegacySoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Pride, Pop and Politics by Darryl W Bullock, 2022, OmnibusSweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones, 2020, FaberThe Age of Consent - Liner Notes by Paul Flynn, Mike Thorne & Jimmy Somerville, 2018, London Records“Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat) - Smalltown Boy | The story behind the song” Top 2000 a gogo, Mar 2018“Heart of the Beat” Adrian Jones, No 1 Magazine, Jun 1984“Runaway Boys: Bronski Beat” Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, Jun 1984“Bronski Beat: Dark Side of the Beat” Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, Sep 1984“Jimmy The Mover” Andy Hughes, No 1 Magazine, Sep 1984“Beat the Sex Rap” Sunie, No 1 Magazine, Oct 1984“The Age of Consent - Review” Biba Kopf, NME, Oct 1984“Bronski Beat: Bronski Beefs” Paolo Hewitt, NME, Nov 1984“Consenting Adults” Tony Reed, Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, Dec 1984“It Ain’t Necessarily So” Karen Swayne, No 1 Magazine, Jan 1985“What is Bronski Beat?” Barney Hoskyns, Spin Magazine, May 1985“AUDIO: Bronski Beat (1985)” Barney Hoskyns, Rocksbackpages, Spr 1985“Jimmy Somerville: The Age of Dissent” Paolo Hewitt, NME, May 1985“The Communards: Turning Pink into Red” Paul Mathur, Blitz, Oct 1985“His Beat Goes On” Barry Walters, The Advocate, Jun 2000“20 most fabulous“ Jimmy Somerville, The Guardian, Nov 2006“Jimmy Somerville: 'Jesus Christ! Alan Shearer – what a little sex bomb!'” Adrian Deevoy, The Guardian, Jul 2014“Jimmy Somerville Reveals What Inspired His New Disco Album, Why He Terrified Boy George And The Impact Of “Smalltown Boy”” Jeremy Kinser, Queerty, Oct 2014“Jimmy Somerville interview: 'I wanted people to love me'” Laura Martin, The Independent, Feb 2015“How Bronski Beat’s Jimmy Somerville Survived the ’80s” Max Dax, Electronic Beats, Mar 2015“Homage Not Fromage: Jimmy Somerville Interview” John Freeman, The Quietus, Mar 2015“Marc Almond: 'I hate the LGBT thing. There's no gay community anymore'” Brian Beacom, Scotland Herald, Oct 2017“The Age of Consent - Review” Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, Nov 2017“Back in bloom: how queer male pop reclaimed its star status” Brian O'Flynn, The Guardian, Oct 2018“When Disco Entered Politics” Steve Erickson, Gay City News, Oct 2018“The Godfathers of Pop: Steve Bronski interview” David Burke, Classic Pop, Mar 2019“How '80s LGBTQ band Bronski Beat’s haunting ‘Smalltown Boy’ made a difference: ‘It was very bold’” Lyndsey Parker, Yahoo! Music, Jun 2019“Smalltown Boy — Bronski Beat’s 1984 hit was a heartfelt cry for liberation” Paul David Gould, Financial Times, Sep 2019“‘Run away, turn away’: The story of Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy” Kevin E G Perry, The Independent, Dec 2021“Finding Our Way: Kate Wildblood on the powerful influence of Bronski Beat” Kate Wildblood, M Magazine, Feb 2022“Interview: Jimmy Somerville, 'Even Cheesy Disco Songs Have Great Messages'” Fiona Shepherd, The List, Mar 2022“‘I was decadent, I was stupid, I was a fool’: the dark days of Donna Summer” Daniel Dylan Wray, The Guardian, Apr 2023“The Year Pop Came Out” Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, 2023“Classic Album: The Age of Consent” Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, 2023You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Woo-hoo!: How Blur Mocked Grunge & Destroyed Britpop [Song 2] | New British Canon Trash Theory 2024-05-06 | At first, Blur were a band that prided themselves on their Britishness. They wrote keenly observational pop songs about 18-30 Holidays, The Shipping Forecast, Sunday Lunch and the Quiet Frustrations of Everyday British Life. In Britain, it made them heroes. But in the US they were nobodies. So it was quite the surprise that midway through the 90s, they made an about-face and unleashed a screaming chunk of Apple Pie-scented Grunge rawk, the key modern jock jam. But how did they get there? Why was a jumbo jet involved? And was it just a joke aimed squarely to whom it appealed? This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Song 2.”#Blur #Britpop #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:52 Blur & Britpop's Ascension: "So The Story Begins..."07:17 The Great Escape: "I Am So Sad, I Don't Know Why"15:30 Recording Blur: "Sad Drunk and Poorly"22:30 Creating Song 2: "When I Feel Heavy Metal"28:07 Enduring Legacy of Blur & Song 2Sources:The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris, 2004, Harper PerennialVerse, Chorus, Monster! By Graham Coxon, 2022, FaberThe Life of Blur by Martin Power, 2013, Omnibus PressIsle of Noises by Daniel Rachel, 2013, PicadorStarshaped - Documentary (1993) dir. Matthew LongfellowBlur - The South Bank Show (1999) dir Gerald FoxNo Distance Left to Run - Documentary (2010) dir. Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace“Blur: Britain’s Class Act” Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, Nov 1994"The Hic Parade" Ted Kessler, NME, Dec 1994"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four: Part Two" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995“Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything” Keith Cameron, NME, Sep 1995"Blur: England Expects" Chris Heath, The Face, Sep 1995"Gold, Nonsense and Blur" Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Dec 1995“Blur: Stop The Band, I Wanna Get Off!” Adrian Deevoy, Q, Mar 1996“Blur in America” Everett True, Melody Maker, Mar 1996"Blur Clear Things Up" Susan Kaplow, Addicted To Noise, 1997“What Have We Done?” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997“‘Sly Stone Meets Black Sabbath’” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997“One day, all this will be ours” David Cavanagh, Q Magazine, Apr 1997“Blur Knocks The Pulp Out Of Oasis, Right?” Erik Himmelsbach, Pulse!, Apr 1997“Red White and Blur“ Sylvia Patterson, Spin Magazine, Aug 1997"Woo Hoo!" Michael Dwyer, Rolling Stone Australia, Sep 1997“Chaos Has Reappeared, Everyone’s Drunk Again Great!” Mark Beaumont, NME, Nov 1997“The Death of a Party” Stuart Maconie, Select, Aug 1999“Alex James explains Blur’s ‘knickers-off headbanger’“ Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, 2003“It was all a bit of a Blur…” Ally Carnwath, The Observer, May 2009“Blur – Album By Album, by Stephen Street, William Orbit and Ben Hillier” Nick Hasted, Uncut, Jul 2009"Thinking outside the box" Jake Kennedy, Record Collector, Jun 2012"Graham Coxon: All a blur" Fiona Sturges, Independent, May 2012“Woo-hoo! 20 Years Ago, Blur's 'Song 2' Became an Unlikely Sports Anthem” Rick Paulas, VICE, Apr 2017“‘We Found Our Own Heavy Psychedelia’” Martin Aston, Mojo Magazine, Nov 2023“‘C’est quoi ce bordel?’” François Moreau, Les Inrockuptibles, Dec 2023You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before Limp Bizkit: How Nu Metal Became Pop - Revisited Trash Theory 2024-04-22 | For a brief moment in the late 90s and early 2000s, Nu Metal ruled the airwaves. With releases such as KoRn's Follow the Leader, Limp Bizkit's Significant Other and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, the genre had commercial clout, but critically fared less well. However if you were a teenager at the time, nothing else felt like its white-knuckled throat-shredding catharsis. Not only that but the genre fused together many different sonic elements that previously seemed incompatible. But how did we get here? What were the vital steps along the way? And was it really all for the nookie? This is How Nu Metal Became Pop.#LimpBizkit #NuMetal #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:07 Run DMC04:05 Beastie Boys06:15 Faith No More09:31 Bring The Noise11:42 Helmet14:46 90s Hip Hop18:57 Rage Against The Machine21:40 Pantera24:01 Clawfinger25:29 Korn28:48 Deftones31:04 Sepultura34:15 199740:30 199845:40 Limp BizkitLouder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, Jon Wiederhorn & Katherine Turman, 2013, Harper Collins“Faith No More - Artists of the Year” Frank Owen, Spin Magazine, Dec 1990“Ice-T Interview” Andy Gill, Q Magazine, Sep 1991“Helmet: Big Boom in Industrial Metal” Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, Aug 1992“100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” Kerrang! Staff, Kerrang! Magazine, Jan 1998“They love bands called Snot and Orgy and dress like S&M fans. Welcome to nu metal“ Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Dec 1999“666 Songs You Must Own” Kerrang! Staff, Kerrang! Magazine, Nov 2004“Interview - Page Hamilton (Helmet)” Cosmo Lee, Invisible Oranges, Dec 2010“Pantera Look Back at 20 Years of ‘Walk’” Kory Grow, Spin Magazine, May 2012“Pantera's 'Vulgar Display Of Power': The Epic Story Behind A Hostile Masterpiece” Jon Wiederhorn, Revolver, Jul 2012"15 Years On – Was Nu-Metal The Last Musical Tribe?” Al Horner, NME, Sep 2013“Was It Really All Just For the Nookie? A Rational Explanation of Nu-Metal“ Tim Karan, Diffuser, Nov 2014“Korn’s 1994 Debut LP: The Oral History of the Most Important Metal Record of the Last 20 Years” Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, Dec 2014“Under the Influence: Korn's James "Munky" Shaffer” Dave Kerr, The Skinny, Jan 2015“Rage Against the Machine Bassist: ‘I Apologize for Limp Bizkit’” Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, Sep 2015“The Nu Metal Years, Part One: Are You Ready?” Gareth Watkins, Cvlt Nation, Dec 2015“The Inside Story Of When Run‑DMC Met Aerosmith And Changed Music Forever” Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post, May 2016“Serenity and suffering: confronting Korn's dark past” Mörat, Metal Hammer, Oct 2016“Deftones' Chino Moreno: ‘Adrenaline? Those were wild times’” Metal Hammer, Oct 2016“The story behind Sepultura's Roots” Dom Lawson, Metal Hammer, Oct 2016“Incubus on nu-metal: 'It always made me cringe'” Kate Hutchinson, The Guardian, Apr 2017“20 years of nu-metal: the rise, fall and revival of rock’s most maligned offshoot” Tom Connick, The Guardian, May 2017“August 18, 1998: Korn, Kid Rock, Orgy & The Biggest Day in Nu-Metal History” Kristen S. He, Billboard, May 2018“7 Things You Didn't Know About System Of A Down's Self-Titled Album” Jon Wiederhorn, Revolver, Jun 2018“In 1998, rap-rock and nü-metal really did seem like the future” David Anthony, AV Club, Aug 2018“Oral History of the ‘Judgment Night’ Soundtrack: 1993’s Rap-Rock Utopia” Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, Sep 2018“Korn's Jonathan Davis On Nu-Metal” Jonathan Weiner, Kerrang!, Sep 2019“Clawfinger im Interview über Konzerte, Kohle und kritische Songtexte” Andreas, Burn Your Ears, Nov 2019“Dez Fafara: How Coal Chamber saved LA and why nu metal rules” Joe Daly, Metal Hammer, Feb 2020“Korn break down their debut album track by track” Paul Branigan, Metal Hammer, Oct 2020“The Story Behind The Song: Bring The Noise by Anthrax and Public Enemy” Joel McIver, Metal Hammer, Nov 2020“The story of nu-metal in 14 songs” Nick Ruskell, Kerrang!, Aug 2021“Revenge of The Freaks: How Nu Metal Took Over the World” Dave Everley, Metal Hammer, Sep 2022“8 Musical Groups That Influenced Nu-Metal” Lauryn Schaffner, Loudwire, Sep 2022““It was like holding a f**king live wire”: how Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything” Dave Everley, Metal Hammer, Nov 2022“Run DMC thought Walk This Way would ruin them: instead, it saved Aerosmith” Greg Prato, Classic Rock, Jan 2023“How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth” Dannii Leivers, Metal Hammer, Aug 2023You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Critical Kicking of Slowdive (When The Sun Hits) | New British Canon Trash Theory 2024-03-10 | There was a time when the British Music Press had absolute power. Punk, C86, Madchester, Grunge, Britpop, and The New Rock Revolution were all invented and made famous within the pages of NME, Sounds and Melody Maker. But trends are fickle. Once the press got bored of a certain sound or scene, they quickly moved on to the next one, viciously mocking what they were promoting weeks before. Many bands’ careers ended prematurely.Slowdive had approximately six months of next-big-thing write-ups and glowing praise before they were exiled. In came Grunge and Shoegaze was suddenly not cool. For the rest of their initial three album run, they were critically kicked, punched and spat on by journalists. They were the enemy of the NME, and deemed monstrous by Melody Maker. Despite creating some of the most beautiful euphoric music of the 1990s, they were the most hated indie band in Britain. This is New British Canon, and this is the Story of “When The Sun Hits.”#Slowdive #Shoegaze #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:05 The Start of Slowdive & The Rise & Fall of Shoegaze10:10 Recording Souvlaki: "40 Days and I Still Miss You"21:30 Further Backlash & Pygmalion25:59 The Re-Evaluation of SlowdiveSlowdive Souvlaki Pitchfork Classic (2015) dir. Michael GarberThe Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize by David Cavanagh, 2000, FaberJust For a Day Liner Notes, Ian Watson, 2005Souvlaki Liner Notes, Ian Watson, 2005Pygmalion Liner Notes, Ian Watson, 2005“Slowdive: Falling and Laughing” Paul Lester, Melody Maker, Dec 1990“The Right Kind of Slow” Simon Williams, NME, Feb 1991“Slowdive: Younger than Yesterday” Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, Mar 1991“Dive Bomb” Paul Lester, Melody Maker, Aug 1991“It’s all atmosphere with us” Andrew Collins, NME, Sep 1991“Manic Street Preachers: The Newport Dolls” Andrew Collins, NME, Nov 1991“Whatever Happened to Shoegazing?” Paul Lester, Melody Maker, Sep 1992“Slowdive: Souvlaki” John Mulvey, NME, May 1993“Pitta and Twisted” Dele Fadele, NME, Jun 1993“Slowdive: Souvlaki” Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, Jun 1993"Slowdive: Pygmalion" John Harris, NME Feb 1995“Mojave 3 - Interview Part 1” Anthony Strutt, Pennyblack Music, Jul 2004“Mojave 3 - Interview Part 2” Anthony Strutt, Pennyblack Music, Aug 2004“Slowdive - Interview” Anthony Strutt, Pennyblack Music, Jun 2005“Diamond Gazers: Shoegaze” Jude Rogers, The Guardian, Jul 2007“Interview: Simon Scott of Slowdive, Televise, The Charlottes, Seavault, and Lowgold.” Asa Eisenhardt, When The Sun Hits, Oct 2011“Slowdive: The Band That Celebrates Itself Again” Lukas Hodges, Noisey, Feb 2014“Slowdive on Their Reunion, “Souvlaki,” Creation Records, “Pygmalion,” and Shoegazing” Austin Trunick, Under The Radar, Aug 2014“WTSH Interviews Neil Halstead & Simon Scott of SLOWDIVE.” Asa Eisenhardt, When The Sun Hits, Aug 2014“Interview: Slowdive’s Simon Scott on the Rebirth of the Influential Shoegaze Group” Hanna Bächer, Red Bull Academy, Sep 2014“The unlikely renaissance of Slowdive: ‘Shoegaze became the genre of ridicule’” Alexandra Pollard, The Guardian, Mar 2017“Slowdive on Their First Album in 22 Years and Why Shoegaze Came Back” Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, Apr 2017“Slowdive on Reuniting for the Band’s First Album in 22 Years” Justin Joffe, Observer, Apr 2017“Why Slowdive’s Post-Rock Masterpiece Pygmalion Still Matters” Marc Hogan and Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, Dec 2018“Slowdive interviewed: ‘The destination was never really discussed or known’” Piers Martin, Uncut Magazine, Aug 2023“Slowdive Are More ‘Alive’ Than Ever” Cam Lindsay, Spin Magazine, Sep 2023“The perseverance of Slowdive” Ashwin Bhandari, The Line of Best Fit, Sep 2023“Slowdive: How Gen Z became obsessed with the 90s shoegaze legends” Will Richards, The Standard, Nov 2023You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Unlikely Career of Pet Shop Boys & Its a Sin I New British Canon Trash Theory 2024-02-15 | On paper, Pet Shop Boys are an unlikely pop behemoth. A former pop journalist and an architecture student, their first hit, “West End Girls,” had their thirty-year-old middle-class British frontman embodying Grandmaster Flash. Starting off as what could’ve quite easily remained a one-hit wonder, they defined British synth pop in the late 1980s, combining the cutting edge of dance music with their intelligent self-reflective lyricism. By 1987 they had hit their imperial phase with a song that attacked the Catholic Church with Hi-NRG bombast and extraneous countdowns. This is New British Canon and this is the story of "It’s a Sin”.#petshopboys #80spop #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:41 The Beginnings of Pet Shop Boys06:18 A Dead End World: "West End Girls"16:46 It's a, It's a, It's a, It's a: It's a Sin24:49 Actually: The Imperial Phase31:55 Enduring Legacy: When An Empire FallsPet Shop Boys, Literally by Chris Heath, 1990, William Heinemann LondonPlease Liner Notes by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe, 2001Actually Liner Notes by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe, 2001“Pet Shop Boys: The South Bank Show” (1992) dir. Steve Jenkins“Neil Tennant” Kirsty Young, Desert Island Discs, Feb 2007“The Pet Shop Boys: An ex-Smash Hits Writer and the Grandson of a Nitwit” Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, Dec 1985“The Pet Shop Boys’ music mixes New York hip hop styles with lots of English irony” Jon Savage, Spin Magazine, Feb 1986“Pet Shop Boys: What Does It Take To Make These Men Happy?” Chris Heath, Smash Hits, Feb 1986“Track Record: West End Girls” Jim Betteridge, International Musician & Recording World, March 1986“Take: 1 Wasteland, 2 Pet Shop Boys, 7 Deadly Sins, 15 Monks” William Shaw, Smash Hits, 1 July 1987“Pet Shop Boys: Cheeseburgers, Carrot Cake and Coffee (yum!?)” Chris Heath, Smash Hits, Mar 1988“Outsiderdom: The Pet Shop Boys” Mat Snow, Q Magazine, Aug 1988“Pet Shop Boys: Tum-Ti-Tum!” Tom Hibbert, Q Magazine, Dec 1990“Pet Shop Boys: Oh Mister Songwriters!” Adrian Deevoy, Q Magazine, January 1992“Pet Shop Boys: Our Back Catalogue Is 25 Years Of Social Commentary” Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, Mar 2009“Classic Tracks: Pet Shop Boys 'It's A Sin'” Richard Buskin, Sound on Sound, Dec 2010“For Hard-Core Petheads: The Tennant Interview In Full” Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, Jun 2009“Poptimism: Imperial” Tom Ewing, Pitchfork, May 2010“Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired” Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, Sep 2012“Neil Tennant: The Mojo Interview” Ian Harrison, Mojo Magazine, Aug 2013“The Lowdown: Pet Shop Boys” David Burke, Classic Pop, Nov 2018“Pet Shop Boys: 'The acoustic guitar should be banned’” Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Jan 2020“Neil Tennant on West End Girls: 'It's about sex and escape. It's paranoid’” Laura Snapes, The Guardian, Jun 2020“It’s a Sin — pure pop provocation from the Pet Shop Boys” Arwa Haider, Financial Times, Oct 2021“Pet Shop Boys interview – SMASH the system” John Earls, Classic Pop, Jul 2023“Pet Shop Boys: ‘Music has ceased to be ageist’” Laura Snapes, The Guardian, Feb 2024 SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Everything You Know About “Blue Monday” is Probably Wrong I New British Canon Trash Theory 2024-01-15 | Emerging out of the embers of Joy Division, New Order spent the 1980s smashing together the worlds of punk and disco. In 1983 they gave the world a shuddering party starter that took elements from Black Gay club music, Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Spaghetti Westerns and British melancholy. Such a revolution in sound that “Blue Monday” perhaps became the biggest selling 12 inch single of all time.Perhaps, because the myths surrounding “Blue Monday” are belligerent and numerous, impeded by each member of the band having conflicting accounts of their 1980s. Many of the rumours and legends about the song are provably wrong, and yet still persist. It may be the song to get indie kids to the dancefloor, but what do we really know about this 7 and half minute groove-automaton? This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Blue Monday.”#bluemonday #neworder #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:56 "Everything's Gone Green" Joy Division to New Order08:17 Recording Power, Corruption & Lies12:37 "How Does It Feel?" Creating Blue Monday21:42 The Release of Blue Monday27:19 Sunkist & The Enduring Legacy of Blue MondayChapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me, Bernard Sumner, 2014, Transworld DigitalSubstance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook, 2016, Simon & SchusterFAST FORWARD Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist Volume II by Stephen Morris, 2020, ConstableThe New Order Story (1993) dir. Kevin Hewitt“Episode 7 Power, Corruption and Lies” New Order, Transmissions Podcast, Dec 2020“Episode 8 Blue Monday” New Order, Transmissions Podcast, Dec 2020“New Order” Paul Rambali, The Face, Jul 1983“When There’s No More Room in Hell” Chris Bohn, NME, Jul 1983“New Order: Shaming the Nation” Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, Jan 1986“New Order: Shock Of The New” Chris Roberts, Sounds, Apr 1986“The Perfect Kiss” Barry Walters, Spin Magazine, May 1988“Tell Me, How Does It Feel? New Order and the 'Blue Monday' syndrome” Len Brown, David Quantick, New Musical Express, May 1988“New Order: Praxis” Paul Mathur, Blitz, February 1989“New Order: Joyful Division” Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 May 1993“Peter Hook Interview” Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, 2003“Let it bloody happen…” Andrew Male, Mojo Magazine, Nov 2008“New Order: The Making Of 'Blue Monday'” Stephen Dalton, Uncut, Dec 2008“Joyless divisions: The end of New Order” Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian, Jul 2011“New Order - How We Wrote ‘Blue Monday’” Barry Nicolson, NME, 2012“How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday” Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Feb 2013“Peter Hook [Joy Division, ex-New Order]” Greg Prato, Songfacts, Oct 2014“Bernard Sumner Talks to Northern Soul” Andy Murray, Northern Soul, Oct 2014“NEW ORDER’S ‘BLUE MONDAY’ SUNKIST COMMERCIAL” Oliver Hall, Dangerous Minds, July 2015“ELECTRI_CITY_CONFERENCE 2015” Chi Ming Lai, Electricity Club, Nov 2015“Peter Hook Talks Getting Knocked Out At Worst Gig Ever” Gordon Smart, Radio X, Mar 2018““It felt like we were changing the world”: inside New Order’s seminal ‘Power, Corruption & Lies’” Andrew Trendell, NME, Sep 2020“Chosen Time” Dave Simpson, Record Collector, Nov 2020“The Story of Kraftwerks Electric Cafe” Tobias Fischer, Beat, Jul 2022“New Order interview: Power, Corruption & Lies” John Earls, Classic Pop, Sep 2022“Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired” Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Mar 2023SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Blasphemous Story of XTC & Dear God I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-12-02 | XTC burst out of late 1970s Britain with hooks for days. While many of the punk bands around them proudly ignored anything before 1976, they took notes from The Beatles, Kinks, and Beach Boys and reformed them into pugnacious state-of-the-art pop. “Making Plans For Nigel,” “Generals and Majors” and “Senses Working Overtime” made their unique stamp on the UK Charts. But when XTC stopped playing live in 1982, their career took a much more interesting turn. Unable to sell their Englishness to the UK, instead via calamitous recording sessions with Todd Rundgren and a dismissed b-side, XTC landed a punch squarely below the Bible Belt. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of “Dear God.”#xtc #postpunk #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:49 "This Is Pop" The Early Years of XTC07:51 "Making Plans For Nigel" The Rise of Colin Moulding14:10 "Senses Working Overtime" The XTC & The Agony18:58 Skylarking: Last Chance For XTC26:16 "Dear God" Fist-Fighting a Deity32:34 "You Bring The Summer" Enduring LegacyBibliographyXTC: Song Stories by XTC & Neville Farmer, 1998, Helter SkelterComplicated Game: Inside The Songs of XTC by Andy Partridge & Todd Bernhardt, 2016, JawboneIsle of Noise: Conversations with Great British Songwriter by Daniel Rachel, 2013, Picador"Song of the Week -- Andy's Take" by Andy Partridge & Todd Bernhardt, Chalkhills, 2006-2009This Is Pop (2017) dir. Roger Penny & Charlie Thomas"XTC: Our 1989 Interview" by Rosemary Passantino, Spin Magazine, Apr 1989"‘My dream had died’: XTC’s Andy Partridge on mental illness,..." by Fergal Kinney, The Guardian, Oct 2022"The Stories Behind The Songs: Making Plans For Nigel" by Paul Lester, Classic Rock, Jan 2015"Todd Rundgren In-Studio with Jonesy" by Steve Jones, 955KLOS, May 2019"How we made: XTC on Making Plans for Nigel" by Dave Simpson, Colin Moulding & Terry Chambers, The Guardian, Apr 2020"MAGNET CLASSICS: THE MAKING OF XTC’S 'SKYLARKING'" by A.D. Amorosi, Magnet Magazine, Mar 2016"PARCELS FROM A PATCHOULI PAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW PARTRIDGE" by Bill Gibron, Popmatters, Feb 2010"English Settlement - Andy Partridge: Small-town by perfectly formed." by Peter Paphides, Mojo Magazine, Feb 2003"Skylarking XTC Review" by Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, Apr 2020"XTC Ninjas of the Mundane" by Steve Pond, Rolling Stone, Apr 1989"XTC’s Andy Partridge on COVID-19, Valium and 20 Years of ‘Wasp Star Apple Venus (Vol. 2)’" by Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, May 2020"THE MAN WHO SAILED AROUND HIS SOUL" by Patrick Schabe, Popmatters, Oct 2006"Heavy Load: Andy Partridge" by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, Feb 2016"All-Time Classics: Skylarking by XTC" by Joe Standard, Uncut, Aug 2004"English Settlement: The Rise and Fall and Rise of XTC" by Joe Silva, Ray Gun, Jan 1999"XTC: 'Til Death Do Us Part" by Chris Ingham, Mojo Magazine, Mar 1999"The Great XTC Problem" by Craig W Thomas, Rock's Backpages, 2006"XTC: Senses Working Overtime" by Pete Paphides, The Word, Apr 2004"XTC: An Everyday Story Of Country Punks" by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, Oct 1977"The Agony & The XTC" by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, Nov 1977"The Agony and the XTC" by Jim Green, Trouser Press, Aug 1978"The Agonies of XTC" by Toby Goldstein, Creem, Apr 1979"XTC: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindon" by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, Nov 1979"XTC: Making Plans for Andy Colin Terry and Dave" by Nick Kent, NME, Oct 1979"XTC: Last Exit To Catalonia" by Paul Morley, NME, Sept 1980"XTC: Optimism Is Next Week’s Thing" by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, Sept 1980"XTC: Slaving For The Yankee Dollar" by Betty Page, Sounds, Dec 1980SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
12 Iconic Top of the Pops Performances That Reshaped British Music Trash Theory 2023-11-10 | In January 1964, the BBC saw that for the first time ever the national singles chart was overflowing with British acts. Due to this, they created a weekly music chart rundown programme called Top Of The Pops. From then on, every Thursday evening Britain’s youth would be delighted by the latest UK chart goings-on, while being the only place to see their favourite artists and discover exciting new ones.The presenters were cheesy, or much worse, and most of the time the band had to mime, but some of these performances would embed themselves unshakably into the public consciousness, inspiring generations of bands and artists in their wake, hoping that they too could get their three-minutes of Top of The Pops glory. From Bowie to Soft Cell, The Smiths to Blur, these are 12 Iconic Top of The Pops Performances That Forever Altered British Music.#topofthepops #britishmusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:52 Desmond Dekker: Introducing Reggae02:54 David Bowie: "...And I Picked On You"06:35 The Jam: Punk On The BBC09:38 Blondie: A Counterpoint11:03 Gary Numan: The Cyborg Takeover13:29 Soft Cell: "Once I Ran To You"15:43 Shalamar: The Backslide17:38 The Smiths: Flower to The People21:29 Farley "Jackmaster" Funk: Enter House Music23:52 Happy Mondays & The Stone Roses26:40 Blur & Oasis: The Battle of Britpop30:04 Spice Girls: The Reign of Girl PowerBibliographyTop of the Pops: Mishaps, Miming and Music by Ian Gittins, 2007, BBC BooksTop of the Pops 50th Anniversary: 50 Years On by Patrick Humphries & Steve Blacknell, 2014, McNidder & GraceMad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s by Lori Majewski & Jonathan Bernstein, 2014, Harry N. AbramsSweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones, 2020, FaberMozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths by Simon Goddard, 2010, Ebury PressThe Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris, 2004, Harper PerennialTop of the Pops The True Story - The Final Chapter (2006) dir. Elliott Johnson & Jeff SimpsonReggae Britannia (2011) dir. Jeremy MarreTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1977 (2012) dir. David VincentTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1979 (2014) dir. Matt O'CaseyTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1981 (2016) dir. Matt O'CaseyTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1982 (2016) dir. Matt O'CaseyTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1986 (2018) dir. Verity NewmanTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1995 (2022) dir. Verity NewmanTop Of The Pops: The Story of 1996 (2022) dir. Becci Dyson"The 100 greatest BBC music performances - ranked!" by Guardian Music, The Guardian, Oct 2022"The Final Countdown: Top of the Pops" by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, Sep 2006"Top Of The Pops: Down The Pan?" by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, Nov 1991"RIP Top Of The Pops, 1964-2006" by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, Jun 2006"Top of the Pops a decade on: 10 stunning moments from the legendary pop show" by Fraser McAlpine, BBC, Aug 2016"How Top of the Pops Made a Nation Fall in Love With Music" by Jamie Andrew, Den of Geek, March 2023"The BBC’s New Music Show Could Learn From These Iconic Top Of The Pops Moments" by Kim Hillyard, NME, November 2015"'You woke up on a Thursday and it smelled like a Top of the Pops day'" by Dave Simpson & Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, Jul 2006"David Bowie: The Making of 'Starman'" by Rob Hughes, Uncut Magazine, Jun 2009"David Bowie and the most influential three minutes and 55 seconds of UK TV ever" by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, Jul 2022"How performing Starman on Top of the Pops sent Bowie into the stratosphere" by David Hepworth, Jan 2016"David Bowie on ‘Top of the Pops’ 50 years on: How a pointed finger changed the world" by Tom Taylor, Far Out Magazine, Jul 2022"Desmond Dekker and The Aces – Israelites (1969)" by Rob Barker, Every UK Number 1, Aug 2019"Desmond Dekker - Obituary" by Pierre Perrone, The Independent, May 2006"Reggae pioneer: Desmond Dekker" by Garry Steckles, Caribbean Beat, Sep/Oct 2006"MIXMAG IS 40: AN INTERVIEW WITH OUR FIRST EVER COVER STAR, SHALAMAR" by Craig Seymour, Mixmag, March 2023"Shalamar" by Peter Silverton, Smash Hits, Dec 1982"The Smiths make their Top of the Pops debut" by Johnny Marr, The Guardian, Jun 2011"Burning Down the House: Chicago's Club Scene" by Barry Walters, Spin Magazine, Nov 1986"A Potted History of Dance Music on British Television: Disco Ducks and Acid Explosions" by Josh Baines, Noisey, Sep 2015"Mancunian candidates" by Nick Kent, The Face, Jan 1990SoundtrackLuar - Balance (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Alternative Rocks Most Unexpected Pop Stars: Therapy? & Screamager Trash Theory 2023-10-27 | You know the story. Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in late 1991, and alternative rock broke into the mainstream. But how alternative can a band be and still succeed, however briefly, in the pop charts. Enter Therapy?Ripping their way out of Northern Ireland in 1989, they absorbed metal, punk and industrial and mangled it into glorious globs of mutant-rock noise. With jagged early tracks “Meat Abstract,” “Potato Junkie” and “Teethgrinder” they slowly caught the attention of the UK’s punks, metalheads and indie kids, but it wasn’t until 1993 and the buzzsawing bubblegum of “Screamager” that the pop crowd bought in as well. This is the story of Therapy?: Alternative rock’s unlikeliest pop stars.#therapymusic #alternativerock #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:48 Origin: "No One Knows The Trouble I've Seen"08:02 Nurse: "Losing His Mind and He Feels It Going"12:05 Screamager: "Screw That, Forget About That"17:20 Troublegum: "I'm In Hell And I'm Alone"24:05 Enduring Legacy: "This Infernal Love"BibliographySo Much For the Thirty Year Plan: Therapy? The Authorised Biography by Simon Young, 2020, Jawbone"Britrock Special: how To Make Friends & Influence people" by Paul Brannigan, Classic Rock, Jun 2015"Troublegum At 25: An Oral History Of The Therapy? Classic" by Kiran Acharya, Kerrang!, Feb 2019"The Story Behind the Song: Screamager by Therapy?" by Henry Yates, Louder, Nov 2016"Therapy?: How Troublegum catapulted three unlikely Irish lads to stardom" by Dave Everley, Metal Hammer, Nov 2019"Therapy? 'We took a chance, Troublegum was so out of our comfort zone'" by Dom Lawson, Louder, Feb 2016"Ireland In 50 Albums, No 7: Troublegum, by Therapy?" by Mike McGrath Bryan, Irish Examiner, Feb 2023"Therapy?'s Infernal Love: An Oral History" by Kiran Acharya, Classic Rock, Mar 2016"TROUBLEGUM / INFERNAL LOVE (REISSUES)" by JR Moores, The Quietus, Apr 2014"The best 12 Therapy? songs, by Andy Cairns" by Andy Cairns, Louder, Oct 2015"Andy Cairns: “We always tried to leaven the pain through our way of dealing with life itself..." by Nick Ruskell, Kerrang!, May 2023"Blarney Trouble" by Keith Cameron, NME, Jul 1991"Therapy?: Three-Prong Attack" by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, Jan 1992"Happiness is a Worn Gum" by Steve Lamacq, NME, Nov 1992"Get Some Therapy?" by Chris Watts, Kerrang!, Nov 1992"Big Money Booze Up" by Johnny Cigarettes, NME, March 1993"Nevada: Mind the B..." by Simon Price, Melody Maker, May 1993"24-Hour Parody People" by Simon Williams, NME, Jul 1993"Therapy? Get Opal Fruity" by Mayhem, Kerrang!, Aug 1993"Therapy?: Gums N' Rosaries" by Terry Staunton, NME, Jan 1994"British Steel" by Liz Evans, Kerrang!, Jan 1994"Mad Boys Inc" by Mat Smith, Melody Maker, Jun 1994"Begorrah's Banquet" by Stuart Bailie, NME, Nov 1994"No More Pop Songs! Therapy?" by Mayhem, Kerrang!, Nov 1994"The Hic Parade" by Ted Kessler, NME, Dec 1994"Therapy? It's a Wonderful Life" by Andy Stout, Metal Hammer, Dec 1994"It's Heavy as F...!" by Paul Rees, Kerrang!, May 1995"Therapy? - Songs of Love and..." by Paul Brannigan, Kerrang!, May 1995"Mosh Bros" by Mark Sutherland, NME, May 1995"Therapy? Smooth, Smart, Selfish" by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, Nov 1995"Therapy?: Monsters of Rock?" by Susan Corrigan, i-D, Sep 1996"Therapy?: Penetration Terrorists" by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, Jul 1995"Andy Cairns on Samuel Beckett, The Exorcist and The Jesus Lizard" by Jenny Lee, Irish News, Aug 2016"Therapy?" by Richard May, Pixelsurgeon, 2002"Therapy? Profile, Interview with Andy Cairns" by Craig Young, earpollution, Apr 2000"The Complete Guide to Therapy?" by Mike Mc-Grath-Bryan, The Thin Air, Mar 2014"Therapy?'s Andy Cairns picks the 10 songs that define his career" by Rich Hobson, Metal Hammer, Sep 2023SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Youre Not Punk and Im Telling Everyone: The Jawbreaker Story Trash Theory 2023-09-29 | The early 90s was a boom time for getting rich off Alternative Rock. Due to the breakout commercial success of REM, Nirvana and Green Day, major labels grabbed any band that could approximate their sounds in the hopes of them becoming the next big thing. If there was one band that felt primed to succeed in this landscape it was Jawbreaker.Formed in New York before transplanting themselves to California, they blended Husker Du, Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus Lizard, infused with ultra-literate lyrics that spat frustration, dissatisfaction and heartbreak. But when it was their chance to cash-in on the alt rock gold-rush, Jawbreaker lost everything. Not punk and punk in equal measures, this is the story of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and how Jawbreaker sold out.#jawbreaker #poppunk #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:48 Origin: "Seven Hundred Miles to Play to Fifteen Angry Men"08:36 24 Hour Revenge Therapy: "The Clarity of Cal to Break Your Heart"18:24 Nirvana & Green Day: "My Enemies Are All Too Familiar..."25:36 Dear You: "We Could Be The Next Band That You Rob"33:41 Legacy: "Some Make Exhaustion a Mode of Expression"BibliographySellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi, 2021, DeyStrBks24 Hour Revenge Therapy 33 1/3 Book by Ronen Givony, 2018, Bloomsbury Academic USAGimme Something Better by Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor, 2009, Penguin BooksDon't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker (2017) dir. Tim Irwin & Keith Schieron"Ep. 47: Blake Schwarzenbach discusses Jawbreaker's 'Boxcar'" by Chris DeMakes, Chris DeMakes a Podcast, Apr 2021"Jawbreaker - July 3, 1993 @ 924 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA (Soundboard Audio)" by BLoss_iZR39, YouTube, Apr 2021 (youtu.be/ZI0-tlClahY?si=B8YzA62EHc28clMD)"Jawbreaker - May 28, 1993 @ CBGB's, NYC (Soundboard Audio)" by BLoss_iZR39, YouTube, Feb 2021 (youtu.be/23DI0LyeBQ0?si=ACYAJSDrVV64NDD5)"The Definitive Oral History of Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy" by Leor Galil, Pitchfork, April 2017"The Oral History of Jawbreaker" compiled by Trevor Kelley, Alternative Press, September 2010"Decoding Jawbreaker's Monumental 24 Hour Revenge Therapy 25 Years On" by Mischa Pearlman, Kerrang!, Feb 2019"The Guide to Getting into Jawbreaker" by David Anthony, Noisey, Sep 2017"Jawbreaker: Bivouac" by Kyle Ryan, AV Club, Nov 2006"the last ever interview with JAWBREAKER" by Mike, Geek America, [date unknown]"'You could shoot a gun in the air and hit a great song'—Jawbreaker discuss ‘24 Hour Revenge Therapy’" by Trevor Kelley, Alternative Press, Oct 2014"‘Dear You’: Jawbreaker’s Emo Cult Classic" by Jeff Terich, Udiscovermusic, Sep 2023"Jawbreaker’s Reluctant Return, 21 Years After Their Implosion" by David Anthony, Noisey, Aug 2017"Jawbreaker: you're not punk and I'm telling everyone..." by Trevor Kelley, Punk Planet, Feb 2003"Jawbreaker’s Blake Schwarzenbach On ‘Dear You’ And Getting Back On The Road To Tour Again" by Ian Cohen, UPROXX, Mar 2022"Revisit SPIN’s 1994 Story on Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy" by SPIN Staff, Spin Magazine, Apr 1994"Emo Scene, Their Fault" by Joe Gross, Spin Magazine, Feb 2004"Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler on the legacy of the band's most divisive album" by Dan Ozzi, Reply Alt, Mar 2022"24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jawbreaker - Review" by Brandon Stosuy, Pitchfork, Oct 2014"Jawbreaker Reflect on Debut Unfun" by Chris Ryan, Rolling Stone, Apr 2010"Jawbreaker Reflect on 25 Years of Dear You, Promise “Guitar Catharsis” on Anniversary Tour" by Gary Graff, Consequence, Mar 2022"Jawbreaker: You're Not Punk, and I'm Telling Everyone" by Melissa Fossum, Phoenix New Times, Jul 2012"The Story Behind L.A. Band Jawbreaker's Return to Stage for 'Dear You'" by Ryan Ritchie, Los Angeles Magazine, Apr 2022"Blake Schwarzenbach on Jawbreaker’s Bivouac and Chesterfield King reissues" by MW, Giant Robot, Dec 2012"What Turn You On? Sufjan Stevens, Jarvis Taveniere, Blake Schwarzenbach" by Erika Bogner, Serial Optimist, August 2013"Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler: 'We don’t take credit or blame for what came after us'" by Stuart Williams, Music Radar, March 2019SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Explosive Story of The Breeders & Last Splash Trash Theory 2023-08-25 | 1993 was quite the year for Alternative Rock. Still in the afterglow of Nevermind changing everything, weird and wonderful music that only a couple of years prior would’ve gone unheard, then a product of the underground, now controlling the airwaves and taking over MTV. [“Start Choppin’,” “Today,” “Creep,” “No Rain,” “Low,” “Loser”] But perhaps the best and most unexpected example of subterranean chart pop was The Breeders and their joyously bizarre hit “Cannonball.”Songwriter Kim Deal had made her name as the underutilised bassist in alt rock pioneers Pixies, but here she teamed up with with her twin sister Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and conceived an album of surf-rocking noise-popping goodness. Bursting with more creative left-turns and oddball hooks than many bands fit into a whole career. Explosive and shambolic in equal measure, This is how The Breeders made Last Splash.#thebreeders #alternativerock #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction01:24 Kim & Kelly Before The Breeders05:39 Pod - "Inside Legs of Corduroy I've Been"13:17 Last Splash - "No Bye, No Aloha"19:13 "Cannonball" - In The Shade"24:28 And Everything AfterwardsBibliographyFacing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston, 2013, The Friday ProjectFool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies: An Oral History of The Pixies by Caryn Ganz, 2005, Virgin BooksLSXX Liner Notes, 4AD, 2013"The Real Deal" (2002) dir. Lotje IJzermans"Last Splash Turns 20" by Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Aug 2013"'No Lazy Choices'" by Sam Richards, Uncut, Oct 2023"Sister Act" by Martin Aston, Mojo Magazine, Jun 2013"The Breeders - 'Cannonball'" by Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain The '90s, Jan 2021"The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation" by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, Aug 1990"The Breeders: A New Breed of Women in Rock" by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, Jul 1990"INTERVIEW: BREEDERS" by Chris Robin, Slug Mag, Nov 1992"The Breeders interview 1993 - Kim Deal" by Steve Harris, Aug 1993 (youtube.com/watch?v=9USJOHxjrqg)"Kim Deal & Tanya Donelly: A conversation about Belly, the Breeders, Throwing Muses, the Pixies & alternatives" by Evelyn McDonnell, Musician, Sep 1993"The Breeders: The real new deal" by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, Oct 1993"Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle" by Everett True, Melody Maker, Dec 1993"Ordinary People: The Breeders on the Bus and Back Home" by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, Mar 1994"A Breed Apart" by Karen Schoemer, Rolling Stone, May 1994"The Breeders" by Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Jul 1994"Kim Deal: The Breeders Leader Gets P..." by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, July 1995"My (Or) Deal" by John Apanites, Moo Magazine, Jun 1995"Raw Deal" by David Holthouse, Tweak, 1996"Kelley Deal Interview" by Keith Phipps, AV Club, Nov 1997"The addict family" by Maddy Costa, The Guardian, May 2002"The SPIN Interview: Kim Deal" by Kari Wethington, Apr 2008"The Breeders: Sister Bliss" by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, Mar 2008"Splashdown! The Breeders’ Cannonball-Like Re-Entry" by Amanda Petrusich, Spin Magazine, May 2013"The Breeders’ Last Splash is a rallying cry for the weirdos and stereotype-flouters" by Annie Zaleski, AV Club, May 2013"Interview: The Breeders" by Steve Palopoli, SantaCruz.com, Aug 2013"20 Years On: The Breeders' Last Splash Revisited" by Emily Mackay, The Quietus, August 2013"20 Years On: The Breeders – Last Splash" by Claire Francis, Tone Deaf, August 2013"The Breeders' 'Last Splash' At 20: Do You Love Me Now?" by James Montgomery, MTV News, Apr 2013"LSXX The Breeders - Review" by Lindsay Zoladz, Pitchfork, May 2013"Kim Deal: 'Misogyny is the backbone of the music industry'" by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, Mar 2018"Kim Deal" by Ann Friedman, The Gentlewoman, Spr/Sum 2018"The Remarkable Persistence of the Breeders" by Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, Mar 2018"Kim Deal: The Breeders frontwoman on their fifth album, Pixies and touring with Nirvana" by Kevin EG Perry, NME, March 2019"Pod The Breeders - Review" by Judy Berman, Pitchfork, Sep 2020"The Genius Of… Last Splash by The Breeders" by Cat Woods, Guitar.com, Oct 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How For the Briefest Moment No Doubt & Ska Took Over Everything Trash Theory 2023-08-06 | In 1995, rock radio needed a change after four years of Grunge. And that change came in the form of Ska. Invented in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1950s, before being repackaged with punk and soul elements as Two Tone in the UK in the late 70s, it was an upbeat dance music characterised by its walking basslines, accented rhythms and blasts of horns. Third wave ska originated in California in the late 80s and Anaheim’s No Doubt were instrumental in breaking it into the mainstream.Their 1995 third album was a fizzy cocktail of two tone, punk, hair metal, disco and new wave, frontwoman Gwen Stefani combating her heartbreak, stalkers and societal condescension to shape generational anthems and permanent radio ballads. Sobbing and skanking in equal measure, this is the story of how No Doubt and Tragic Kingdom sold Ska to the world.#nodoubt #gwenstefani #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction01:03 The Early Days of No Doubt05:33 Recording Album Two & Three12:17 "Just A Girl" - I've Had It Up To Here17:17 "Don't Speak" - Hush Hush Darling24:09 Third Wave Ska & Lasting InfluenceBibliographyGwen Stefani & No Doubt: A Simple Kind of Life by Jeff Apter, 2007, Omnibus PressNo Doubt - The Complete History - VH1 (2004) dir. Michael KochmanNo Doubt - on the road to the kingdom 1992-1997 (1997) dir. uncredited"No Doubt - Just a Girl" by Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, Feb 2021"JUST A GIRL... ANAHEIM'S NO DOUBT SETS THE "ROCK FEMINIST" LABEL ON ITS HEAD" by Wendy Hermanson, BAM Magazine, Nov 1995"Ms Doubtfire" by Kennedy, Spin Magazine, Jun 1996"No Doubt: Supervixen! by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, Jul 1996"Tragic Kingdom" by David Browne, Entertainment Weekly, Aug 1996"Get Happy!" by Jonathan Bernstein, Spin Magazine, 1996"Tragic Kingdom - Review" by David Fricke, Rolling Stone, Dec 1996"No Doubt: Ska Defaced" by Stephen Dalton, NME, Feb 1997"No Doubt: Who's That Girl?" by Susan Corrigan, i-D, March 1997"No Doubt: Snap! Crackle! Pop!" by Chris Heath, Rolling Stone, May 1997"No Doubt: Ska-Spangled Banter!" by Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Jul 1997"Over And No Doubt?" by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, Sep 1997"Ska's Latest Revival Brings Music Stateside" by Carrie Bell, Oct 1997"TUNES AND 'TOONS" BY OC Weekly - Staff, OC Weekly, Feb 1998"Two-Hit Wonders" by Josh Tyrangiel, Time, Apr 2000"Gwen Stefani: The Queen of Confessional Pop" by Jancee Dunn, Rolling Stone, Dec 2000"No Doubt: West Wide Story" by Paul Elliott, Q Magazine, Aug 2002"Story of the song: 'Don't Speak', No Doubt, 1996" by Robert Webb, Independent, Aug 2010"New Again: No Doubt" by Jill Kopelman, Interview Magazine, Aug 2012"Gwen Stefani: 'The solo records were never meant to be taken seriously'" by Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, Sep 2012"No Doubt Tells All: The Stories Behind Their Classic Records" by Lauren Nostro, Complex, Sep 2012"20 Years Ago, No Doubt’s ‘Tragic Kingdom’ Rewrote the Rules for the Female Rock Star" by Tom Barnes, Mic, Oct 2015"Tragic Kingdom Turns 20" by Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Oct 2015"Navel Gazing: Looking Back at No Doubt's 'Tragic Kingdom' 20 Years Later" by Nick Levine, Noisey, Oct 2015"No Doubt’s ‘Tragic Kingdom’ at 20: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review" by Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, Oct 2015"Does No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom still matter?" by Marah Eakin, Alex McLevy, Annie Zaleski & Evan Rytlewski, AV Club, Oct 2015"Gwen Stefani Talks How No Doubt's Hit 'Just A Girl' Came to Be" by Karen Mizoguchi, People, Mar 2017"Tragic Kingdom No Doubt - Review" by Jill Mapes, Pitchfork, Mar 2020"25 Years Later, Gwen Stefani Looks Back at the Music Video That Defined Her ’90s Style" by Liam Hess, Vogue, Sep 2020"No Doubt talks ‘Tragic Kingdom’ at 25: The tears, tours and triumphs behind the classic album" by Kelli Skye Fadroski, The Orange County Register, Oct 2020"Welcome To The Tragic Kingdom: No Doubt's Masterpiece Turns 25" by Yasmine Shemesh, Grammys, Oct 2020"As ‘Don’t Speak’ Turns 25, Gwen Stefani Looks Back at the No Doubt Hit and Ahead to Her Next Musical Chapter" by Ellise Shafer, Variety, Apr 2021"No Doubt: How a scrappy suburban ska band took over the world" by Mark Sutherland, Kerrang!, Mar 2022"No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom revisited as a grown up girl" by Phoebe Loomes, Tone Deaf, June 2021SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Games Without Frontiers: When Peter Gabriel Went Political I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-07-15 | Peter Gabriel has inhabited many roles. From a costumed prog poet in Genesis to a conservationist balladeer on the Wall-E soundtrack. However his run of self-titled albums are where he found himself as a musician.On his third album in 1980, he took all the post punk, synth pop and world music happening around him and blended it into his twitchy lopsided art rock. Gabriel spun tales of mental health disarray and anthems of dissatisfaction, and, with help from a French game show and Kate Bush, whistled his way to one of his biggest hits. This is New British Canon and This is the Story of “Games Without Frontiers.”#petergabriel #postpunk #musicdocumentary Fact-checking and Additional Writing by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:44 Leaving Genesis & Taking a Leap of Faith07:47 The Recording of Peter Gabriel 314:04 A One, Two, Four... - "Games Without Frontiers"20:42 "Biko" - It Was Business as Usual27:20 The Legacy & Influence of Peter Gabriel 3BibliographyExperiencing Peter Gabriel: A Listener's Companion by Durrell Bowman, 2016, Rowman & LittlefieldWithout Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel by Daryl Easlea, 2013, Omnibus PressPeter Gabriel: In His Words by Mick St Michael, 1994, Omnibus PressThe Story of... Peter Gabriel (2002) prod. Bill Welychka for MuchMoreMusicGenesis - The Story So Far Documentary (1991) prod. Robert Sidaway "Genesis: Peter Gabriel Talks" by Barbara Charone, NME, Oct 1973"Peter Gabriel Quits Genesis" by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, Aug 1975"Peter Gabriel: Behind Peter Gabriel's Mask" by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, Dec 1975"The Ghost That Haunts Genesis" by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, Feb 1976"Peter Gabriel: Toronto Tales Of The Overkill Kid" by Barbara Charone, Sounds, Oct 1976"The Re-Genesis Of Peter Gabriel" by Tony Stewart, NME, Oct 1977"Peter Gabriel: Say Goodbye to the Bubble Creature" by Barbara Charone, Circus, Mar 1977"Peter Gabriel: The Lamb Stands Up" by Barbara Charone, Sounds, Apr 1977"Peter Gabriel" by Caroline Coon, Sounds, June 1978"Mr. Clean: Peter Gabriel" by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, Jun 1980"The Evolution Of Peter Gabriel – Why He Believes In Taking Risks With His Music" by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, Jul 1980"Gabriel on Gabriel or Man vs. Record" by Jim Sullivan, Trouser Press, Oct 1980"Peter Gabriel: Don't Touch Me There" by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, Oct 1982"Rhythm Of The Pete" by Richard Cook, NME, Oct 1982"Peter Gabriel: Tales Of The Gold Monkey" by Phil Bell, Sounds, Oct 1983"Peter Gabriel: Can I Get a Witness?" by Jay Sweet, Paste, Jun 2007"Peter Gabriel 3: Melt 40 Years On" by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, Oct 2010"An Invasion Of Privacy: Peter Gabriel Interviewed" by John Doran, The Quietus, Sep 2011"Cash for questions: Peter Gabriel" by Mark Blake, Q Magazine, Dec 2011"Peter Gabriel on 30 years of Womad – and mixing music with politics" by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, Jul 2012"Genesis: 10 of the best" by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, Sep 2014"Genesis interviewed: “We ended up as a three-piece because we had too many ideas for a five-piece…”" by Michael Bonne, Uncut, Sep 2015"Peter Gabriel – 10 of the best" by John Doran, The Guardian, Nov 2016"10 Reasons Peter Gabriel’s ‘Solsbury Hill’ Is One of the Greatest Songs of All Time" by Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, Feb 2017"The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s 125" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, Sep 2018"40 Years of ‘Melt’: Peter Gabriel’s catalytic third album" by Paul Pearson, Treble, May 2020"No Self Control: An Oral History Of 'Peter Gabriel III'" by Ryan Reed, Grammys, May 2020"Geopolitical Jams and No Cymbals: Peter Gabriel (3) at 40" by Jim Allen, Rock and Roll Globe, May 2020"Peter Gabriel: Unmasked" by Michael Bonner, Uncut, Sep 2020"Without Frontiers" by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, Sep 2020"FEATURE: A PERFECT PARTNERSHIP: KATE BUSH ON PETER GABRIEL’S MELT" by Music Musings and Such, Jun 2021"The stories of Peter Gabriel's solo albums, told by his collaborators" by Sid Smith, Prog Magazine, Jun 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Into (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTInstagram: instagram.com/theorytrashOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Cruel Summer & Bananarama: How the New Wave Ronettes Dominated The 80s I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-06-23 | As a sub-genre, girl groups have gifted us with so many moments of pop perfection. For the most part these were groups assembled by a producer for the purpose of creating chart hits with little musical input from the performers. But formed in 1981, Bananarama were different. Spurred on by the DIY ethos of punk and the out-there fashion of the New Romantics, they hit the scene in Doc Martens, dungarees and bird-nest hair, self-possessed and spewing hits. A bevy of early covers would make way for some of the finest British pop of the 1980s - their calling card a scorching dog day confection infused with shambolic dance moves and the mother of all marimba lines. This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Cruel Summer.”#bananarama #80spop #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.Thanks also to Bananarama Fan Club and London Records for having archived a lot of this footage00:00 Introduction01:20 Keren Woodward, Sarah Dallin & Siobhan Fahey04:45 The Early Singles of Bananarama11:54 "Cruel Summer" & Being Taken Seriously20:05 Stock Aitken Waterman, "Venus" & Their LegacyBibliographyReally Saying Something: Sara & Keren - Our Bananarama Story by Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward, 2020, Hutchinson LondonSweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones, 2020, FaberYoung Guns Go For It: Bananarama (1999) dir. Kate MeynellSmash! - The Bananarama Story (2002) dir. Roz Edwards"Fun Boy Three & Bananarama" by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, Jan 1982"Meet Bananarama — Three Fun Girls With A-Peel" by Toby Goldstein, Creem, Dec 1982"Bananarama: Q&A" by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, Jun 1983"Bananarama: We All Broke Down And Cried" by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, Mar 1984"Bananarama: Mean Streaks and True Confessions" by Susan Williams, NME, Apr 1984"A few home truths about Bananarama" by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, Aug 1985"Bananarama: These Charming Girls" by Iman Lababedi, Creem, Dec 1986"Who the hell do BANANARAMA think they are?" by Tom Hibbert, Q Magazine, Sep 1988"Bananarama: Girls Together Outrageously" by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, Jul 1990"Bananarama: Sisters Undie The Skin" by Betty Page, NME, May 1991"The Producers" by Richard Buskin, Recording Musician, Apr 1993"What makes a great summer pop hit?" by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, Jul 2009"'We're like teenagers again': Bananarama peel back the years" by Liz Jones, Daily Mail, Aug 2009"Interview With Tony Swain" by Jez Wells, Journal on the Art of Record Production, Apr 2015"‘People wet their knickers when they find out I was in Bananarama’: the 80s trio return" by Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, Apr 2017"'Did you enjoy being pregnant?' - Bananarama revisit old Smash Hits questions" by Mark Savage, BBC, Apr 2017"We Heard A Rumour… – Bananarama Interview" by uncredited, Classic Pop, Aug 2017"Bananarama: how we made Robert De Niro's Waiting" by Jack Watkins, The Guardian, Nov 2017"‘She can’t wear heels, she’ll be taller than me’: why I left my girl band" by Malcolm Mackenzie, The Guardian, Jan 2019"The Number Ones: Bananarama’s “Venus”" by Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Jan 2021"Album By Album: Bananarama" by Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, Mar 2022"Bananarama look back: ‘The dresses were fitted with chicken wire – and totally extraordinary’" by Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, Jul 2022"Bananarama on gay bars, LGBTQ+ fans and the 80s: ‘Cher booted us off stage’" by Patrick Kelleher, PinkNews, Jul 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Into (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before Nine Inch Nails: How Industrial Became Pop Trash Theory 2023-05-19 | What is Industrial? In its original form it was an aggressively mechanistic and uncompromising sound formed of tape-loops, samples, often self-made synths and electronics. Bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse With Wound and Einstürzende Neubauten produced avant garde noise that thumbed its nose at pop music as a production line and made sounds from the literal tools of production. But how did it get from its pipe-bashing, static-cloaked anti-music guise to the music soundtracking in the club scenes in The Matrix? What were the essential steps along the way? And how did Nine Inch Nails force Industrial into the charts? This is How Industrial Became Pop.#nineinchnails #industrialmusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking and Additional Writing by Serenity Autumn and Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:44 Musique Concrete, Tape Loops & Noise04:09 1977- Punks, David Lynch & Metall Auf Metall06:48 Daniel Miller, The Normal & Mute08:08 Throbbing Gristle & The Birth of Industrial11:20 Nurse With Wound & Whitehouse13:36 Cabaret Voltaire & Clock DVA16:48 Post-Punk Fusing With Industrial19:05 DAF20:58 Einstürzende Neubauten23:54 Some Bizarre Records28:16 Depeche Mode & Industrial in the Charts30:39 Skinny Puppy & Electro-Industrial33:11 Industrial Goings-On Elsewhere37:30 Nitzer Ebb & Electronic Body Music38:58 The Beginnings of Industrial Hip-Hop42:20 Ministry & Wax Trax! Records46:31 Nine Inch Nails & Industrial Becoming PopBibliographyAssimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by Alexander S Reed, 2013, Oxford University PressRip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds, 2006, Faber & FaberOther Like Me The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (2021) dir. Marcus Werner Hed & Dan FoxTransformer: The Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris, 1994, HarperSynth Britannia (2009) dir. Ben WhalleyThe Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire Documentary (2009) dir. Kara Blake"Front 242 Interview" by Paul Moore, Technology Works, date unknown"Whitehouse: The Second Coming" BY Scorpio, Alternative Press, 1990"Meet the Beat" by Steve Cogan, Music Technology, Jan 1991"Hard as Nails" by Neil Perry, Select, Mar 1991"Last Rites for Skinny Puppy" by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1996"Cabaret Voltaire" by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, Feb 2000"Children of God Swans Review" by Brandon Stosuy, Pitchfork, Jul 2003"The Story Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop" by Steve Marshall, Sound on Sound, Apr 2008"From Skinny Puppy To Stomp: How Industrial Music Was Built" by Soundcheck, Jun 2013"10 Essential Industrial Hip-Hop Albums" by Treble Staff, Treble, Jan 2014"80s Essentials – Industrial Revolution: The New Soul Of An Old Machine" by Last Rites Staff, Last Rites, Mar 2014"Classic Tracks: Throbbing Gristle ‘Hamburger Lady’" by Tom Doyle, Sound on Sound, Aug 2015"10 Essential ’80s Industrial Tracks" by Treble Staff, Treble, Oct 2015"Cult heroes: DAF – electro brutalists using hedonism as heroism" by Paul Lester, The Guardian, Jan 2016"INDUSTRIAL HISTORY" by Tim Naylor, Record Collector, Feb 2016"How Skinny Puppy Changed Metal" by Alec Chillingworth, Metal Hammer, Nov 2016"David Gahan reveals stories behind Depeche Mode's biggest hits" by Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly, 2017"Revisiting Eraserhead’s haunting, industrial soundtrack" by Selim Bulut, Dazed, Mar 2017"Big Black on ‘Songs About F–king’ at 30: ‘We Wanted to Make Filthy Music’" by Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, Sep 2017"Retrospective: Thirty Years of Big Black’s “Songs About F--king”" by Joseph Schafer, Decibel, Sep 2017"Metal Machine Music Lou Reed Review" by Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, Dec 2017"The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s" by Pitchfork Staff, Pitchfork, Sep 2018"The return of... Nitzer Ebb: ‘There was always a lot of sexual energy’" by Luke Turner, The Guardian, Jan 2019"The 33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time" by Pitchfork Staff, Pitchfork, Jun 2019"Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine at 30" by Ed Power, Independent, Oct 2019"Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine Turns 30: 7 Musicians Celebrate Trent Reznor’s Influential Debut Record" by Chris Harris, Spin Magazine, Oct 2019"'They'd greet us with fire extinguishers!': the wild times of Blixa Bargeld" by Daniel Dylan Wray, The Guardian, May 2020"A History of Industrial Music in 45 Songs" by Treble Staff, Treble, Oct 2021"200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" by Jon Dolan, Julyssa Lopez, Michaelangelo Matos & Claire Shaffe, Rolling Stone, Jul 2022"Pretty Hate Machines: A Beginner’s Guide To Industrial Music" by Nisha Gopalan, Udiscovermusic, Mar 2023SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The KLF: Beyond The Band That Burnt £1,000,000 I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-04-21 | If you’ve heard of the KLF, you probably know them as a band that burnt a million pounds. But that is only the conclusion to their story. The journey that led them to the Isle of Jura on that fateful August morning in 1994 is even more fascinating. A journey that includes getting sued by ABBA, gaining a number one single in the guise of a talking car, pioneering at least one genre of dance music and becoming one of the most successful singles bands of the early 90s. They were two men compelled by the forces of chaos to spread as much confusion as possible and they transformed that into a pop career. This is New British Canon and this is the Story of The KLF.#theklf #90sdancemusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn and Chad Van Wagner.Thanks also to Rex The Younger for having archived a lot of this footageAlso thanks to @ROBERTTONUS for uploading footage of The KLF show at Helter Skelter00:00 Introduction00:48 It Begins: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu07:33 The Rise & Destruction of The Timelords13:37 The KLF, Pure Trance & Chill Out21:05 Stadium House: The KLF Chart Takeover26:04 Justified and Ancient (Stand By The JAMs)30:58 Burning a Million: The End of The KLFBibliographyThe KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs, 2013, W&NThe Manual (How to Have a Number One The Easy Way by Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty, 1988, KLFHow Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 by Richard King, 2017, Faber & FaberWho Killed the KLF? (2021) dir. Chris AtkinsKLF - The Rites Of Mu (1991) dir. Bill ButtThe KLF Burn a Million (£1M) Pounds (1995) dir. Kevin HullMusic for Misfits - The Story of Indie (2015) dir. Mike Connolly & Siobhan LogueTop of the Pops - The Story of 1991 (2021) dir. Verity NewmanScottish Pop Music: The Story Of The KLF (2018) dir. Pete Stanton"The KLF - Interview" Rapido, 1991 (youtube.com/watch?v=RN7o7lmbp8Y)"The KLF - The Manual" Reportage, 1989 (youtu.be/_2kbZLcsQUo?si=Jgj8wVrPvGxcyvbA)"Bill Drummond Interview" The Tom Robinson Show, 2004 (bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05df1zd)"The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu: Feeling The Pinch" James Brown, Sounds, May 1987"The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu: Physical Graffiti" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Jul 1987"The JAMS: Wizards of Scam" Jack Barron, NME, Jun 1988"The KLF" Martin Aston, Independent, Feb 1990"The KLF" Push, Melody Maker, Mar 1990"KLF: Tales From The White Room" John McCready, The Face, Sep 1990"The KLF: Doctorin' The Charts" Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, Nov 1990"The KLF: Pranks for the Memory" David Stubbs, Melody Maker, Feb 1991"KLF: Hang On! I've Got An Idea!" Andy Gill, Q Magazine, Mar 1991"The KLF: Off The Orbitals" Simon Reynolds, The Observer, Apr 1991"Inside The KLF" Mark Prendergast, Sound on Sound, Apr 1991"The KLF: Great Luminaries of Our Time" Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, May 1991"KLF IS GONNA ROCK YOU" Ernie Longmire, X Magazine, Jul 1991"Big in Japan: Where Are They Now?" Martin Aston, Q Magazine, Jan 1992"Who Killed The KLF?" William Shaw, Select, Jul 1992"Stand By Your Van: Tammy Meets the KLF" Terry Staunton, NME, Nov 1992"Hey, DJ — The chilled-out charms of ambient techno" Pat Blashill, Details, Nov 1993"Burning question: The KLF" Andrew Smith, The Observer, Feb 2000"Bill Drummond: Pop's prankster heads for destruction" Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, Aug 2008"The KLF: Getting Arrested With Bill & Jimmy" David Stubbs, The Quietus, Aug 2008"Bill Drummond: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course" John Doran, The Quietus, Aug 2008"IN ABOUT FOUR SECONDS A TEACHER WILL BEGIN TO SPEAK—DR. ALEX PATERSON OF THE ORB" Rich Thomas, Magnetic Magazine, Nov 2011"From the Crate: KLF – The White Room" Ed Jupp, Gods in the TV Zine, Mar 2016"Your guide to The KLF, pop music’s original pranksters" Jack Needham, Dazed, Jan 2017"Who Were The KLF?" Jonny Coleman, Pitchfork, Feb 2017"Return of the KLF: ‘They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here’" Andrew Harrison, The Guardian, Apr 2017"KLF's Welcome to the Dark Ages: What time is chaos?" Barbara Ellen, The Observer, Aug 2017"The KLF's Greatest Protégés Didn't Really Know What Was Going On" Jason Roth, The Record, Jul 2017"The KLF “3 A.M. Eternal”" Jonny Coleman, Insomniac, Aug 2017"Chill Out The KLF Review" Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, Feb 2020"When the KLF and Extreme Noise Terror outgunned the Brits: what happened next?" Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, Feb 2020"What Time Is Love? The KLF Primer" Nick Roseblade, Clash, Jan 2021"Making KLF: The White Room" Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, Feb 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Sweet Dreams: How Eurythmics Shocked America and Made MTV I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-03-24 | When MTV first launched, there simply weren’t enough music videos to fill their 24 hour format. This forced the young channel to take a chance on previously-unknown-in-the-US artists to fill time, including A Flock of Seagulls, Adam and the Ants, The Buggles, U2, Spandau Ballet & Visage. It paid off: within a couple of years a whole wave of videogenic British New Pop bands would take over the Billboard Chart, almost single-handedly creating what was called The Second British Invasion.But even in the age of MTV, The Eurythmics were striking. Annie Lennox's orange close-cropped hair and sleek tailored suit stood apart from other female pop stars of the time. The swirling darkness of their breakthrough single would define the sound of the 80s forever more. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”#eurythmics #80spop #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn and Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction01:38 It Starts With The Tourists05:22 Goodbye The Tourists, Hello Eurythmics08:49 Creating "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"13:09 MTV & The Second British Invasion20:34 Aftermath & Enduring Influence of EurythmicsBibliographySweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones, 2020, FaberI Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks, 2012, PenguinEurythmics - 17 Again Documentary (1999) dir. unknownDiscovering Eurythmics (2013) Cal Saville"The Tourists: Overcoming A Bad Press" Cynthia Rose, A.M., 1980"The Tourists: It's Good To Be Back" Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, Feb 1980"Tourists But Not Exiles" Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, Jun 1980"Eurythmics" Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, Mar 1983"We're Not Tourists, We Live Here" Cynthia Rose, NME, Mar 1981"Eurythmics" Johnny Black, Smash Hits, Jun 1983"Eurythmics: Sweet Soul Music (Is Made of This)" Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, Aug 1983"Eurythmics" Cynthia Rose, NME, Oct 1983"Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams And Constant Friction" Jim Sullivan, Record, Oct 1983"Annie Lennox: MaSQUERaDE!" Max Bell, The Face, Oct 1983"Eurythmics: Side By Side" Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, Nov 1983"Anglomania: The Second British Invasion" Parke Puterbaugh, Rolling Stone, Nov 1983"C'est Eurythmics N'est Pas?" Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, Mar 1985"Eurythmics: The Ministry Of Truth" Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, May 1985"'I Am Not The Androgynous Annie Lennox. I Never Was. I Used It For Something Else'" Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, Nov 1986"Annie Lennox: No worries? That’s worrying..." Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1992"Eurythmics" Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999"Sweet Dreams Again: After a Decade Apart, Annie Lennox and David Stewart are Eurythmics Once More" Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, Oct 1999"Eurythmics: The Power Of Two" Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, Jan 2006"The Return of the Sweet Dreamer" Jon Pareles, New York Times, Sep 2007"Annie Lennox on passion, pop and peace" Teddy Jamieson, The Herald, Mar 2013"Wrapped Up: Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, 30 Years On" Matthew Lindsay, The Quietus, Apr 2013"Annie Lennox: Twerking? It’s about the invasion of boundaries" Arwa Haider, The Metro, Nov 2013"Dave Stewart: 'What Annie Lennox and I went through was insane'" Jim Farber, The Guardian, Feb 2016"Eurythmics: how we made Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Dec 2017"Chvrches Reveal Influence of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and the National's Matt Berninger on 'Love Is Dead'" Ian Gormely, Exclaim, Feb 2018"Classic Tracks: Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’" Tom Doyle, Sound on Sound, Jul 2018"Classic Album: Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, Sep 2019"Flashback: Eurythmics Perform ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’ in 1983" Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, Dec 2019"The Number Ones: Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”" Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Jul 2020"13 essential Eurythmics songs" uncredited, Classic Pop, Nov 2021"Eurythmics: The genre-fluid music ahead of its time" Arwa Haider, BBC Culture, Nov 2021"Annie Lennox's 30 greatest songs - ranked!" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Apr 2022"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — how a drum machine helped create Eurythmics’ biggest hit" Helen Brown, Financial Times, May 2022"Dave Stewart" Carl Wiser, Songfacts, Jul 2022"40 Years Ago: Eurythmics Finally Make It With ‘Sweet Dreams’" Tyler Sage, Ultimate Classic Rock, Jan 2023"40 years of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, the 'home recording' that took the world by storm" Matt Neal, ABC News Australia, Jan 2023SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How Pixies & Doolittle Launched The 90s Trash Theory 2023-03-03 | Pixies started out as a joke. More specifically, a want-ad referencing the post-hardcore Hüsker Dü and light-weight 60s folk three-piece, Peter, Paul and Mary, with the additional condition that applicants have “no chops”. No musical experience required. Bassist Kim Deal took the bait, and unknowingly became essential to one of the most important American bands of the late 1980s. Crafting uniquely odd, mutilated pop songs about death, sex, environmental collapse and eyeball-trauma, by their second album Pixies built the template for alternative rock’s assault on the mainstream. Whispering and roaring in equal measure, this is the story of how Pixies and Doolittle launched the 90s.#pixies #whereismymind #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn & Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction01:08 Previously on... Pixies07:06 I am un chien andalusia: Recording Doolittle14:54 "Monkey Gone to Heaven" & "Here Comes Your Man"21:12 The Death & Enduring Legacy of PixiesBibliographyFool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies: An Oral History of The Pixies by Caryn Ganz, 2005, Virgin BooksDoolittle 33 1/3 by Ben Sisario, 2006, Bloomsbury ContinuumFacing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston, 2013, The Friday ProjectPixies - On The Road (1989) pro. Myles ManginoGouge - Documentary (2001) dir. Matt Quinn"The Pixies: Speaking In Tongues" Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, Mar 1988"The Pixies: Bone Idols" Robin Gibson, Sounds, Apr 1988"Pixies" uncredited, Joy Press, Jul/Aug 1988"The Pixies' Charles Francis" Martin Aston, The Catalogue, 1989"The Pixies: Doolittle" Edwin Pouncey, NME, Apr 1989"The Pixies: Talking With The Animals" Helen Mead, NME, Apr 1989"The Pixies: Animal Crackers" Keith Cameron, Sounds, May 1989"Here and There and Everywhere" Marlne Goldman, Alternative Press, Sep 1989"The Pixies: Ditties Of Pixilated Reasoning" Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 1990"The Pixies: Tyranny And Mutation" Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, Aug 1990"The Pixies: No Time-Wasters!" Andy Gill, Q Magazine, Sep 1990"The Pixies: Road To Gnomewhere" Bruce Dessau, Vox, Jul 1991"Kurt Cobain: Success Doesn’t Suck" David Fricke, Rolling Stone, Jan 1994"Kim Deal: The Breeders Leader Gets P..." by Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine, July 1995"Pixies: Pixies" Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, Jul 2002"The Pixies Reunite for Tour" Andrew Dansby, Rolling Stone, Feb 2004"Life to the Pixies" Marc Spitz, Spin Magazine, Sep 2004"The Rebirth of the Pixies" Keith Cameron, Mojo, Jan 2005"Classic Tracks: The Pixies 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'" Richard Buskin, Sound on Sound, Dec 2005"Pixies Catalogue Review" Mike Powell, Pitchfork, Apr 2014"The Pixies: Looking back on Doolittle and the making of a classic" Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2014"'Debaser'" Mark Stingley, Esquire, Dec 2014"Pixies’ Doolittle at 30: How songs about suicide, psychopaths and mutilated eyeballs sparked a new rock generation" Mark Beaumont, Independent, Apr 2019"‘Doolittle’ at 30 – enjoy these 30 vital pieces of information about the game-changing Pixies album" Tom Howard, NME, Apr 2019"10 Stories Behind the Pixies’ Doolittle" Adam Kivel & Zach Schonfeld, Consequence, Apr 2019"Pixies: how we made Where Is My Mind?" Daniel Dylan Wray, The Guardian, Nov 2020"Pixies’ Black Francis: ‘I subscribe to the belief that men are f***ing everything up’" Mark Beaumont, Independent, Oct 2021"Joey Santiago on his top 5 Pixies guitar performances" Danny Scott, Musicradar, Oct 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
CHAISE LONGUE or: How Wet Leg Buttered The Indie Worlds Muffin I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-02-17 | Few modern rock bands have had the near immediate success of Wet Leg. Earning ungainly comparisons to Pavement, Liz Phair and The B-52s thanks to their deadpan talk-singing, Wet Leg’s musical formula was simple: loud guitars, fun times and not taking yourself too seriously. A welcome change of pace from the dour post-Brexit post-punk surrounding them. Released in the Summer of 2021, their buzzy debut single blended innuendo, Mean Girls references and French furniture to thrilling effect, perhaps even signalling a new dawn for UK rock. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Chaise Longue.”#WetLeg #britawards #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.00:00 Introduction00:52 The Origin Story of Wet Leg04:31 Writing "Chaise Longue"09:10 Recording Their Debut Album14:10 The Near Immediate Ascent of Wet LegBibliography"Wet Leg" Elton John, Rocket Hour, Jan 2022"Ep 5: Wet Leg meets Hayley Williams" The Face Magazine, Dec 2022"Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale tell us about what's inspiring the band currently" Bill Pearls, Brooklyn Vegan, Oct 2021"100% Wet Leg: the Isle of Wight duo who’d like to butter your muffin" Craig McLean, The Face, Oct 2021"On the Rise Wet Leg" Kate Crudgington, The Line of Best Fit, Nov 2021"Band To Watch: Wet Leg" Katherine Bassett, Stereogum, Nov 2021"Wet Leg band name: What's the origin and meaning?" Sally Perry, News OnTheWight, Dec 2021 "Wet Leg Interview" unknown, Mojo Magazine, 2022"‘We’re just little country bumpkins!’: 2022’s hottest band Wet Leg on songs, silliness and their surprise success" Zoe Williams, The Guardian, Jan 2022"Meet The Best Friends Behind Wet Leg, The World’s Buzziest New Band" Corey Seymour, British Vogue, Feb 2022"Wet Leg: "The stars aligned and people connected with us, probably because of this endless year"" Kate Brayden, Hot Press, Feb 2022"On my radar: Dave Grohl’s cultural highlights" Killian Fox, The Guardian, Feb 2022"Wet Leg: “I think there’s more authenticity to the music if you’re having fun”" Rhian Daly, NME, Mar 2022"Wet Leg Are the Buzziest New Band of the Year. They’re Just as Surprised as You Are" Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, Mar 2022"Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird." Rob Tennenbaum, New York Times, Mar 2022"“We didn’t make decisions – we were flying by the seat of our pants!” – the inimitable WET LEG talk influences, not being taken seriously" Carl Marsh, Buzz Mag, Mar 2022"Momma: Wet Leg-approved ‘90s rock revivalists blazing a grungy trail" Will Richards, NME, Mar 2022"Meme Girls: Three squares talk about Wet Leg, the band everybody's talking about" Ann Powers, Jacob Ganz & Hazel Cills, NPR, Apr 2022"Wet Leg on Their Self-Titled Debut Album" Andy Von Pip, Under The Radar, Apr 2022"Meet Wet Leg, the Cheeky Indie Band Behind “Chaise Longue”" Katherine Cusumano, Apr 2022"Wet Leg: ‘Chaise Longue was supposed to be just for us – it was in a folder called High Jams’" Alexandra Pollard, Independent, Apr 2022"Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – going beyond the chaise longue on nuanced debut" Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, Apr 2022"Wet Leg: 6 pop culture references hidden in the duo’s new album" Olivia Emily, Independent, Apr 2022"Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale on their sudden rise to fame" Music 101, RNZ New Zealand, Jul 2022"On my radar: Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg’s cultural highlights" Kathryn Bromwich, The Guardian, Sep 2022"Interview: A speed date with Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale." Shahlin Graves, Coup De Main, Oct 2022"Wet Leg: That Whole ‘Industry Plant’ Thing is ‘Misogyny’" Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, Oct 2022"The Women of Wet Leg" John Seabrook, New Yorker, Jan 2023SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Fear: How Lily Allen Took Down the Pop Machine From the Inside I New British Canon Trash Theory 2023-01-27 | Founded in 2003, MySpace forever changed how music was promoted. For the first time, artists had a way of sharing their music online with a direct link to their fans. It led to an explosion of creativity and major label deals, with artists going from nobodies to pop stars seemingly overnight.Lily Allen was one such artist. Her words were jaded yet mischievous, painting stories of disappointing lovers, messy breakups and inexpert pickup artists, built on a foundation of reggae-pop, drum n’ bass and grime. By album two she was more than aware of the un-reality of pop stardom, and set out to bring it down from the inside. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “The Fear.”#LilyAllen #00smusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:56 The Early Years of Lily Allen07:21 Alright, Still & Paparazzi Hell12:54 "The Fear" & Modern Superficiality 19:49 The Enduring Legacy of Lily AllenBibliographyMy Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen, 2018, Blink Publishing"Lily Allen on the making of The Fear: 'I was ahead of my time'" The Telegraph, May 2018 (youtube.com/watch?v=cwv5D3J-1Mc)"Greg Kurstin: Producing Lily Allen" Joe Cellini, Apple Logic Studio, date unknown"Pictures of lily" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, May 2006"Lily Allen: The Sound Of The (Garden) Suburbs" Jude Rogers, The Word, Jul 2006"I got stuck in a K-Hole at a festival once" Tim Jonze, NME, Jul 2006"Me, my dad and Dumbo" Chris Salmon, The Guardian, Sep 2006"Lily Allen" Scott Plagenoef, Pitchfork, Nov 2006"Lily Allen: An Interview" Jon Wilde, Uncut, Jan 2007"Lily Allen" Lily Allen, Pitchfork, Apr 2007"Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse" Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2007"Lily Allen Leaks Her Own Songs on the Internet" Shari Weiss, People, Apr 2008"Lily Allen gets ‘Naughty’ on new album" NME, NME, Jul 2008"Girl Gone Wild" uncredited, Papermag, Aug 2008"Lily Allen: 'I'm not the show-off you think'" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, Dec 2008"Lily Allen: The Fear" Anna Pickard, The Guardian, Dec 2008"Lily Allen: Talented, Troubled and Wallowing in Her Father's Footsteps" Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times" Jan 2009"'People Think I'm an Attention Seeker, But I'm Just Honest'" James McMahon, NME, January 2009"Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Feb 2009"Down with shoes, up with truth" Kitty Empire, The Guardian, Feb 2009"Celebrity: Lily Allen" James Medd, GQ Australia, Feb 2009"Greg Kurstin: Mister Fairy Dust" James Medd, The Word, Mar 2009"Lily Allen wins paparazzi fight" Jane Stevenson, Jam.Canoe, Apr 2009"Lily Allen: Wild Thing" Sylvia Patterson, Q Magazine, Apr 2009"Lily Allen: social networker of the decade" Rosie Swash, The Observer, Nov 2009"Olivia Rodrigo brings out Lily Allen to sing ‘F*** You’ in response to Supreme Court over Roe vs Wade" Annabel Nugent, Independent, Jun 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Overlooked First Punk Rock Christmas Song (The Kinks Father Christmas) | New Christmas Canon Trash Theory 2022-12-16 | The 1970s was a significant decade for Christmas songs. There’s the glam rock monoliths, the novelty songs, songs by singer-songwriters and prog rock artists, disco songs, and even two songs from former Beatles of drastically varying quality. But one 70s associated genre that didn’t make many Christmas songs is punk. But while young scamps the Sex Pistols and Clash were raging on about having no future and a nuclear war, the first notable punk rock Christmas song was written by a band over a decade into their career. This is New Christmas Canon, and this is the story of The Kinks’ “Father Christmas.”#christmassongs #thekinks #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:40 A Short History of The Kinks 1964-7705:59 Punk Rock & The Kinks09:47 "Father Christmas"13:51 The Release of "Father Christmas"BibliographyThe Story of The Kinks: You Really Got Me by Nick Hasted, 2011, Omnibus PressAmericana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff by Ray Davies, 2013, Virgin BooksLiving on a Thin Line by Dave Davies, 2022 HeadlineRay Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan, 2016, VintageThe Kinks - My Generation (1996) Without Walls (youtube.com/watch?v=UPHOlLFxuvw)Brothers in Arms BBC Documentary (2005) dir. Will BryantEchoes of a World: The Making of "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" (2018) pro. Andrew WinterMisfits Liner Notes, John Swenson, 2013"Ray Davies - Interview" Radio Station KSWD FM, date unknown"Ray Davies & The Kinks at 13" Barbara Charone, Phonograph Record, Dec 1976"Ray Davies of the fashion-defying Kinks" Robin Denselow, The Guardian, Dec 1977"Dave Davies: He Ain't Heavy, He's Ray's Brother" Jim Green, Trouser Press, Jun 1978"The Once and Future Kinks" Fred Scruers, Rolling Stone, Nov 1978"The Rise And Decline Of The Kinks" Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Oct 1979"The Kinks : Remembrance Of Kinks Past" David Dalton, Gadfly, Mar 1999"The Kinks: Preservation Act 2" Keith Phipps, AV Club, Mar 2002"The Kinks’ “Father Christmas” Is The Holiday Song You Never Knew You Needed" Morgana Mercedes, Dec 2015"The Kinks' 50 Greatest Songs" Dave Thompson, Goldmine, Mar 2016"When The Kinks Got Deceptively Festive on 'Father Christmas'" Annie Zaleski, Ultimate Classic Rock, Nov 2017 "The Kinks' Dave Davies says band's classic holiday song "Father Christmas" is "very special to me" Steve Hockstein, ABC News Radio, Dec 2018"The Kinks Album Guide" Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, Jun 2019SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before My Chemical Romance: How Emo Became Emo Trash Theory 2022-12-10 | Emo is tough to define. As Andy Greenwald wrote in Nothing Feels Good: "Emo means different things to different people. Actually that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people." For the most part it’s more of an insult than a genre, and because of this, no band willingly considers themselves Emo.However at its essence, it's an offshoot of punk that is in touch with its more introspective feelings. Maybe the guitars twinkle, maybe the guitars smash you over the head. The key element is there needs to be emotion, sung from the very bottom of their heart. But how did it get from its original emotional hardcore guise to the music featured on The OC? What were the essential steps along the way? And why is My Chemical Romance referred to as Emo? This is How Emo Became Emo.#emo #emomusic #musicdocumentary Additional Writing & Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:53 Hardcore & The Revolution Summer04:53 The Smiths & The Replacements07:31 Jawbreaker & The Cult of Blake11:06 Sunny Day Real Estate & Emo's First Break13:42 The Post-Nirvana Major Label Gold Rush17:07 Lifetime & The New Jersey Scene19:11 Texas Is The Reason & The JFK Conspiracies21:00 Weezer, Blue & Their 'Hideous' Follow-Up24:15 The Beginning of Midwest Emo31:10 Deep Elm & The Emo Diaries34:06 Jimmy Eat World & Being Signed to Capitol37:10 American Football & Being Rediscovered39:34 Vagrant Records & Capitalising on Emo44:06 Emo From Across The States48:14 At The Drive-In & Breaking Post-Hardcore50:48 The Mainstream Breakthrough of Emo56:15 The New Jersey & Long Island Scenes1:02:45 My Chemical Romance & The Emo-Pop TakeoverBibliographyNothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers and Emo by Andy Greenwald, 2003, St Martin's GriffinFrom the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society by Taylor Markarian, 2019, Mango Publishing Group"Ian MacKaye - 1986 - Emocore is stupid" (youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0)"Clarity - Track By Track", Jimmyeatworld.com, unknown date"Get Up Kids Interview" CONTRAST, 1997"Jimmy Eat World" Scott Heisel, Punknews, 1999"Guy Picciotto - 2003" Mark Prindle, 2003"MCR Interview" Kerrang!, 2005"Sunny Day Real Estate Diary Review" Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, Sep 2009"Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock" Louis Pattison, The Guardian, Nov 2012"The 10 Best Jawbreaker Songs" Aaron Lariviere, Stereogum, Nov 2012"BackTracking: Taking Back Sunday on “Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)"" Alternative Press, Jul 2013"Diary Turns 20" Patric Fallon, Stereogum, May 2014"American Football American Football Review" Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, May 2014"You Should Already Know: American Football" Nevin Martell, Filter, Jun 2014"30 Essential Songs From The Golden Era Of Emo" Patric Fallon, Stereogum, Jul 2014"24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jawbreaker Review" Brandon Stosuy, Pitchfork, Oct 2014"Saves The Day look back on 15 years of 'Through Being Cool'" Alternative Press, Nov 2014"This Is Hardcore: Lifetime – Hello Bastards" Laurent Barnard, Louder, Feb 2015"Ben Gibbard Picks the Best Death Cab Songs" Lauretta Charlton, Vulture, Mar 2015"Nothing Feels Good Promise Ring Review" Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, Oct 2015"Never Meant: The Complete Oral History of American Football" TJ Kliebhan, Noisey, Feb 2016"How Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ Went From Embarrassing to Essential" Laura Marie Braun, Rolling Stone, Sep 2016"The Definitive Oral History of Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy" Leor Galil, Pitchfork, Apr 2017"'The Emo Diaries' Gave a New Genre an Identity, Then Fought to Reclaim It" Eduardo Cepeda, Noisey, Jul 2017"The Promise Ring's 'Nothing Feels Good' Proved There Was Room for Pop in Emo" Eduardo Cepeda, Noisey, Aug 2017"Rainer Maria’s 'Past Worn Searching' Helped Carve a Space for Women in Emo" Eduardo Cepeda, Noisey, Dec 2017"Decoding Jawbreaker's Monumental 24 Hour Revenge Therapy 25 Years On" Mischa Pearlman, Kerrang!, Feb 2019"Clarity Turns 20" Ian Cohen, Stereogum, Feb 2019"Jimmy Eat World – Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of “Clarity”" Ian King, Under the Radar, Feb 2019"10 best 90s emo songs: killer tracks from the genre’s golden age" Mia Hughes, NME, May 2019"40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time" Various, Rolling Stone, Sep 2019"Something To Write Home About Turns 20" Ian Cohen, Stereogum, Sep 2019"‘Through Being Cool’ at 20: Saves the Day’s Chris Conley Looks Back on an Emo Landmark" Suzy Exposito, Rolling Stone, Oct 2019"20 emo classics that helped define today's scene, from 1985 to 1997" Various, Alternative Press, Mar 2020"The 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time" Various, Vulture, Feb 2020"Clarity Jimmy Eat World Review" Ivy Nelson, Pitchfork, Jun 2021"The game-changing legacy of Rites of Spring" Arun Starkey, Far Out, Apr 2022"Sunny Day Real Estate Defined Emo Forever with ‘Diary’" Niko Stratis, Riot Fest, Jul 2022"The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s" Various, Pitchfork, Sep 2022
Paramore & Hayley Williams Love-Hate Relationship with “Misery Business” Trash Theory 2022-11-30 | For many, the commercial breakthrough of emo-pop of the mid-00s was all about the bombast of My Chemical Romance, the wordplay of Fall Out Boy and the theatre of Panic! At the Disco. But fifteen years later, Paramore are the band whose impact is the most visible.Singer Hayley Williams’ female point of view and impressive voice proved to be much needed in the sea of dramatic boys falling apart to songs about hips and hearts. To the pity party, Paramore brought a barrage of solid-gold anthems, recalling the best of Jimmy Eat World, with choruses that, rather than bitterly commiserating, uplifted and consoled. However over the years, their biggest hit proved to be contentious. This is the story of Paramore and their Uneasy History with “Misery Business.”#paramore #miserybusiness #musicdocumentary Hayley Williams quotes by @MaggieMaeFish Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:48 The Beginnings of Paramore06:35 Recording Riot! & "Misery Business"14:10 The Controversies of "Misery Business"18:27 The Controversies of "Misery Business" Part 221:53 The Legacy of Paramore & "Misery Business"Bibliography"The future's bright, the future's ginger." Emma Johnston, Kerrang!, 2006"Paramore: Hook-laden post-hardcore from Tennessee" Simon Young, Kerrang! Apr 2006"Paramore: Pop Punk's Brightest Young Rebels," Kerrang!, Oct 2006"Paramore" Alex Hoban, NME, 2007"Paramore - Interview" Tom Bryant, Kerrang!, May 2007"how about don't believe ANYTHING you read..." Hayley Williams, Paramoreband.livejournal, May 2007"redemption. it's a long story." Hayley Williams, Paramoreband.livejournal, Jun 2007"Paramore are a Bunch of Sell Outs" Mark Beaumont, NME, Sep 2007"We were ready to rip each other's teeth out" Paul Stokes, NME, Apr 2008"Hallelujah!" David McLaughlin, Kerrang!, May 2008"Paramore Tackle Friendships on September LP: “There’s Fast, There’s Slow and In Between”" Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, Apr 2009"The 4 Million Album Sales Smile" Gavin Haynes, NME, Oct 2009"New Moon Rising" Emily Mackay, NME, Oct 2009"The People vs Hayley Williams" Paul Brannigan, Kerrang!, Apr 2010"Hayley Williams Takes Issue With Paramore's Portrayal In 'Spin'" James Montgomery, MTV News, Jun 2010"Paramore: Party in the U.S.A." Josh Eells, Spin, Jun 2010"“OK, she’s young and probably doesn't have a complete sense of direction but let's listen to what she wants, it will probably work out for the best.”" Jan Blumentrath, Hit Quarters, Sep 2010"Paramore: "We're not just teenybopper superstars"" Paul Lester, The Guardian, Nov 2010"Josh Farro “finally tells the truth” about Paramore" Tim Karan, Alternative Press, Dec 2010"Disgruntled Rock Stars Cite Faith as a Reason for Leaving Band" Christianity Today, Dec 2010"Hayley Williams Says Paramore Tour Will ‘Light a Fire Under Our Asses’" Jame Montgomery, Rolling Stone, Mar 2015"Paramore: ‘I've wanted to quit this band so many times’" Sam Wolfson, The Guardian, Apr 2017"MAY 31, 2015" Hayley Williams, Tumblr, May 2015"I Think We Have an Anniversary" Tomas Doyle, Kerrang!, Jul 2015"Paramore’s ‘Riot!’ Producer David Bendeth Reflects on Album 10 Years Later" Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, Jun 2017"Adult Emotions" Alex Frank, The Fader, Jun 2017"Hayley Williams: 'It was a lightning in a bottle moment'" Ryan De Freitas, Track 7, Jul 2017"Snail Mail, Teenage Indie Rock Wunderkind, Bursts From ‘the Era of Shred’" Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, Jun 2018"Hayley Williams Is The 21st Century's Pop-Punk Prophet" Jenn Pelly, NPR, Sep 2018"Hayley Williams on divorce and forgiving yourself" Cariann Bradley, L'Odet, Jan 2019"Ok Bloomer: The Rise, Resilience And Evolution Of Hayley Williams" Hannah Ewens, Kerrang!, Mar 2020"Hayley Williams Isn’t Afraid Anymore" Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, Apr 2020"In Conversation: Hayley Williams: The front women on what went wrong with Paramore, Warped Tour war stories, and her new solo life." Eve Barlow, Vulture, May 2020"We’ve Got A File On You: Hayley Williams" Julia Gray, Stereogum, May 2020"Paramore’s Influence Is All Around Us" Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, Jun 2021"Paramore’s 'Brand New Eyes' still resonates on its 12th anniversary" Leslie Simon, Alternative Press, Sep 2021"Willow, Olivia Rodrigo and Pop Punk’s Long, Weird Legacy" Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, May 2022"‘RIOT!’: HOW PARAMORE’S SECOND ALBUM CHANGED THE ALT-POP LANDSCAPE" Cren Gibson, This is Dig, Jun 2022"Paramore: ‘We realised this band isn’t worth risking our health for’" Laura Snapes, The Guardian, Sep 2022"The Complicated History of Paramore’s “Misery Business”" Aliya Chaudhry, Paste, Oct 2022"The Genius Of… Riot! by Paramore" Rachel Roberts, Guitar.com, Oct 2022"Paramore Bring Back “Misery Business” for First Time Since Retiring Song" Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, Oct 2022"How Paramore’s Album 'Riot' Became A Soundboard For Fans 15 Years Later" Marilyn La Jeunesse, Huffington Post, Oct 2022
How The Damned Beat the Pistols at Their Own Game | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-11-09 | Though it had been bubbling under for 18 months, the end of 1976 was when UK punk got its first seven inches. The Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK” may have generated the most outrage, but The Damned’s “New Rose” got there first. While they may have fired the first shot, The Damned ran counter to many of the key tenets of punk. Their songs dealt with the personal rather than the political, they didn’t instantly disregard all music before 1976 and they could actually play their instruments. They were outcasts, set adrift by the punk powers that be, yet one of the most vital and interesting bands of the era. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “New Rose.”#thedamned #punk #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.00:00 Introduction00:42 London SS & The Dawn of UK Punk05:59 The First Steps of The Damned10:57 The Creation of "New Rose"16:44 The Damned Create Damned Damned Damned21:38 The Continuing Legacy of The DamnedBibliographySmashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned by Tyler Kieron, 2017, Omnibus PressPunk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb, 2012, PM PressEngland's Dreaming by Jon Savage, 2005, Faber & FaberThe Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015) dir. Wes Orshoski"The Damned: In The Pub Across The Road With The Damned" Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, Nov 1976"Damned Interview At the Rat 1977" Paul, Boston Groupie News, 1977"T. Rex and The Damned: The Beautiful and The Damned" Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, Mar 1977"The Damned" Mick Farren, NME, Mar 1977"The Damned" Caroline Coon, 1977: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977"Top Drummers Get Itchy Feet Dept.: Why I Quit The Damned by Rat Scabies" Peter Silverton, Sounds, Oct 1977"Why did Rat Scabies leave The Damned? Is the new drummer a rich punk? Did Rat try to kill himself?..." Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, Dec 1977"Voyage Of The Damned" Peter Silverton, Sounds, Dec 1977"The Torments of The Damned" Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Jan 1978"The Damned: Final Spotlight On The Damned" Peter Silverton, Sounds, Apr 1978"The Damned" Dave Thompson, Goldmine, Feb 1992"Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Ramones Debut At The Roundhouse, July 4, 1976" Tim Peacock, Udiscovermusic, date unknown"Fun! Fun! Fun?" Mark Paytress, Mojo Magazine, Feb 2013"The Story Behind The Song: New Rose by The Damned" Paul Lester, Classic Rock, Oct 2016"1-2-3-4! Five ways The Damned's New Rose changed music 40 years ago" Sunderland Echo, Oct 2016"How The Damned Changed the Face of Punk With Their First Song, ‘New Rose’" Tim Sommer, Observer, Oct 2016"Is she really going out with him?: The Damned’s ‘New Rose’ at 40" Martin Ruddock, We Are Cult, Oct 2016"The Damned: how we made New Rose" Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Mar 2018"The Damned interview: 'Everybody has an opinion, but that doesn't mean it's a good one'" Roisin O'Connor, Independent, Apr 2018"David Vanian of The Damned" Greg Prato, Songfacts, Nov 2019"The making of The Damned’s “Neat Neat Neat”" Graeme Thomson, Uncut, Jan 2022"The Damned: an epic tale of fast living and faster music" Scott Rowley, Classic Rock, Feb 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before 1989: How Manchester Became MADchester Trash Theory 2022-09-28 | In November 1989, two bands from Manchester appeared together on Top of the Pops and it changed indie music forever. The Madchester sound was the unity of jangly guitars and thumping dance music: big, psychedelic, even funky and a perfect companion to taking Ecstasy. Artists like The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State and The Charlatans would bridge this formerly insurmountable musical gap. It is the story of punk and disco colliding, how Manchester became for a brief moment the centre of the musical universe, and why Bez is one of the most important figures in British music. This is Before 1989: How Manchester Became Madchester.#madchester #indiemusic #musicdocumentary Additional Writing & Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.00:00 Introduction00:51 The Pre-History of Jangle & Funk05:00 Punk's Influence on Manchester10:17 When Punk Met Funk13:02 Orange Juice & Postcard Records15:44 New Order & The Haçienda18:08 The Phenomenon of The Smiths20:27 C86: The Cassette That Changed Indie22:52 Chicago House & Acid House29:44 Big Audio Dynamite & The Fall31:54 Happy Mondays35:29 Inspiral Carpets37:20 The Stone Roses40:14 808 State41:48 Primal Scream & Andrew Weatherall44:06 Happy Mondays & The Stone Roses on Top of the PopsBibliographyThe Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris, 2004, Harper PerennialThe Madchester Scene by Richard Luck, 2002, Pocket EssentialsThe North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 by John Robb, 2010, Aurum Press Ltd24 Hour Party People by Tony Wilson, 2002, FactoryWrote for Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder, 2019 Faber & FaberThe Hacienda How to Not Run a Club by Peter Hook, 2010, Simon & SchusterHow Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 by Richard King, 2017, Faber & FaberEngland's Dreaming by Jon Savage, 1991, Faber & FaberPump Up The Volume - A History of House Music (2001) dir. Carl Hindmarch (youtube.com/watch?v=pRRg8M4fvUo)"Rave On: A Madchester Retrospective" Ryan Davey, Ceremony Music Canada, date unknown"Graham Massey Talks: 808 State, Pacific And Revisiting The Past" The Ransom Note, date unknown"Inspiral Carpets: Surface Tensions" Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, May 1989"Mancunian candidates" Nick Kent, The Face, Jan 1990"The Fall Is Heading for a Rise, With a New Album" Alex Ross, The New York Times, Aug 1993"A Guy Called Gerald: I Raved With a Zombie" Stuart Aitken, Mojo Magazine, May 2005"Madchester remembered: 'There was amazing creative energy at the time'" Luke Bainbridge, The Observer, Apr 2012"10 Things You Never Knew About… The Stone Roses" Clash Magazine, Feb 2012"C86: The myths about the NME's indie cassette debunked" Michael Hann, The Guardian, Mar 2014"Classic Tracks: 808 State 'Pacific State'" Richard Buskin, Apr 2014"The Smiths’ 30 best songs" Various, Uncut Magazine, Feb 2015"Inspiral Carpets: Life, the Expanded Edition." Gordon Moakes, Medium, Apr 2015"From Voodoo Ray to Infinity and beyond – the story of the UK's biggest rave anthems" Sam Richards, The Guardian, Sep 2015"Orange Juice and Edwyn Collins – 10 of the best" Malcolm Jack, The Guardian, Jul 2016"How M/A/R/R/S’ ‘Pump Up the Volume’ Became Dance Music’s First Pop Hit" Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, Jul 2016"Pills, thrill and maracas … Bez and the great dancing mascots of pop explain their craft" Chris Salmon, The Guardian, Jan 2017"The Story of A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo Ray”" Matt Anniss, Red Bull Music Academy, Feb 2017"Northern soul – 10 of the best" Simon Price, The Guardian, Aug 2017"THE INFLUENTIAL MUSICAL LEGACY OF MADCHESTER 30 YEARS ON" Terry Christian, I Love Manchester, 2019"The Stone Roses are not merely a band, but a phenomenon that reshaped youth culture in its image" Ed Power, Independent, May 2019"Bobby Gillespie remembers Andrew Weatherall: ‘He was a true bohemian’" Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, Feb 2020"Happy Mondays interview" Steve Harnell, Classic Pop, Aug 2021"“Inspiration was everywhere…” How 808 State created acid house symphony ‘Pacific State’" 909 Originals, Aug 2021"Sex Pistols at Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall films sell for £15k" Paul Glynn, BBC, Sep 2021"Making The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses" Classic Pop, Oct 2021"The Stone Roses & The Birth Of The Madchester Scene" Surface Noise, VW Music Rocks, Dec 2021"How NME magazine’s C86 cassette helped create the British indie music scene" Michael Hann, Financial Times, Aug 2022SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How Aphex Twin Spurned the 90s Dance Mainstream (Windowlicker) | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-08-26 | For most of the 90s, Aphex Twin ran counter to what was happening in mainstream dance music. He was messing with low-key ambience during the forceful Eurodance of “Rhythm is a Dancer.” Moved to harsh industrial noise as Europe was smitten by the dreamy trance of Robert Miles’ “Children.” And when Prodigy and Chemical Brothers ruled the roost, Aphex Twin was attempting to rupture drum and bass with rapid stuttered software-programmed beats. The Aphex Twin story is similarly antagonistic, filled with fabrication, half-truths and provocation pried from the man himself. Did he own a tank, live in a bank and do a DJ set using solely sandpaper and a food mixer? Quite possibly, but picking through everything he’s said for the presence of truth is a foolish exercise. The legend is more fun than the bedroom-based music geek reality. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Windowlicker.”#aphextwin #electronicmusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.00:00 Introduction01:20 Richard D. James: How Aphex Twin Came to Be07:11 Selected Ambient Works 85-9212:51 The First Three Albums with Warp Records21:13 "Come to Daddy" & "Windowlicker"31:09 The Lasting Impact of Aphex TwinBibliographyEnergy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds, 2013, Faber & FaberAphex Twin on the nature of electronic music (1995) Arte (youtube.com/watch?v=7UUsHrDKNH0)"Words from Loaded interview room" John Perry, Loaded Magazine"The Aphex Twin - Interview" John Robb, Volume, 1992"Aphex Twin: Double trouble" Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, May 1992"'I surround myself with equipment and just follow my feelings on the machines…'" Tony Marcus, Mixmag, Dec 1992"Double Exposure" Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, Jan 1993"The Aphex Effect" Dave Robinson, Future Music, Apr 1993"Machine Soul: A History Of Techno" Jon Savage, The Village Voice, Summer 1993"Aphex Twin" Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, Nov 1993"Aphex Twin: The Mozart of Techno" Ben Thompson, Mojo Magazine, Jan 1994"Aphex Twin: Armed and Fairly Dangerous" Stuart Maconie, Q, Mar 1994"Aphex Twin: 'Phex And Drugs And Rock'N'Roll" David Stubbs, Melody Maker, Mar 1994"Perfect Sound Forever" Mark Sutherland, NME, Mar 1995"Lucid Dreaming" Rob Young, The Wire, Apr 1995"True Lies" Tony Marcus, Mixmag, May 1995"Life as a tankboy" Richard D James, Details Magazine, Jul 1995"Richard D James Interview" Marc Weidenbaum, Eponymous Rex, 1996"They thought I was the only one" Junglizt, Junglizt Records, 1996"Getting away with it" Mixmag, Oct 1996"Is the Aphex Twin completely mad?" Richard Hector Jones, Jockey S---, Oct/Nov 1996"Aphex Twin: The Clink, London" Ian Watson, Melody Maker, Nov 1996"Aphex Twin: Teddy or Not" Stephen Dalton, NME, Nov 1996"Interview From the Back of the Fridge" Zebra Magazine, 1997"Interview" Bob Gourly, Chaos Control, 1997"Interview" Marc Widenbaum, The Pulse Magazine, Mar 1997"The Aphex Follies" Tamara Palmer & Jennifer Kabat, URB Magazine, Spring 1997"Future Sounds" Richard Martin, Williamette Week, Aug 1997"APHEX TWIN" Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, Sep 1997"Interview" Theresa Stern, Sep 1997"The Aphex Twin" Ben Thompson, Seven Years of Plenty, 1998"Face the music" John O'Reilly, The Guardian, Mar 1999"Richard D. James - Interview" Meredith Danluck, Index Magazine, 2001"Tank Boy: Aphex Twin" Paul Lester, The Guardian, Oct 2001"Don't Fear The Aphex: The Weird Genius of Richard James" Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, Oct 2001"You think his records sound like cutlery being chucked down the stairs?" John O'Connell, The Face, Oct 2001"Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin Review" David M Percoraro, Pitchfork, Feb 2002"Hey, Who's That Face in My Song?" Leander Kahney, Wired, May 2002"The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01" Various, Pitchfork, Sep 2010"Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin" Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, Sep 2014"25 Questions for Aphex Twin: „Do you still own your tank?”" Heiko Hoffmann, Groove, Dec 2014"Aphex Twin: 10 strange myths and the truth behind them" Chris Kelly & John Twells, Fact Mag, Apr 2017"Aphex Twin — Windowlicker. Story behind the video" George Palladev, Medium, Mar 2018"Aphex Twin's Mask Collapses" Andrew Nosnitsky, Crack, Nov 2018"Aphex Twin's best songs – ranked!" Geeta Dayal, The Guardian, Feb 2019"“Windowlicker” Turns 20" Christopher R Weingarten, Stereogum, Mar 2019SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Bloc Party, Banquet & The Second Battle of Britpop | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-07-16 | If 2004 was the year of Franz Ferdinand for the NME crowd, then 2005 was all about Bloc Party. With razor sharp guitarwork, disco beats and Kele Okereke’s anguished yelp, they brought the indie set heartache you could dance to. In spite of studio issues, Gang of Four comparisons and feuds with Britpop elderstatesmen, with Silent Alarm Bloc Party unleashed one of the most exciting British debuts of the decade. A reaction to the reductive boring rock’n’roll surrounding them, they added life, vitality and whatever they could find into their jagged yet sensitive post-punk. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Banquet.”#BlocParty #indie #musicdocumentary Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:42 Bloc Party: The Early Days03:48 Banquet: "Turning Into Myself"10:30 The Making of Silent Alarm: "...Hoping For a Miracle?"18:46 The Aftermath of Silent AlarmYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How Björk & Post Infused Heart into Electronic Music Trash Theory 2022-06-24 | Björk never wanted the spotlight. Fame was never the goal, she just wanted to be able to defy the boundaries of pop on her own terms. Debut was where she would burst her way onto MTV and Radio, but with her 1995 album Post she became the innovative and unflinchingly adventurous musician we know today. Here she would paint from an unrivalled palette of sound: Jazz, Ambient, IDM, Trip Hop, Acid House, Techno and even showtunes. Peppered with dial-tone atmospherics, crushing beats and playful orchestration, it was musically promiscuous, bursting with the full spectrum of emotion, and like nothing the mainstream had encountered before. This is the story of Post: How Björk Reinvigorated Electronic Music.#bjork #90s #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:15 Björk - An Introduction07:26 The Writing of "Army of Me"10:02 The Multiple Genres and Collaborators of Post16:48 The Lyrical Themes of Post22:01 The Aftermath of PostYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Exploring Ian Dury, The Blockheads & HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-06-10 | Even amongst the ragamuffins and likely lads of the UK Punk scene, Ian Dury stood out. In his late 30s, with his left arm and leg withered from Polio, and in love with Stax, Motown and free jazz - But that is also what made him transcend. Aided by the funk-punk backing of the Blockheads, his acerbic Estuary wit was on full display on the band's only UK number one, an around the world jaunt that takes in Bingo Lingo, James Brown and the universal appeal of copulation. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick.”#IanDury #Punk #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:45 Before The Blockheads: Kilburn & The High Roads05:38 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & New Boots & Panties!!13:24 Creating "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"17:59 The Legacy of Ian Dury & The BlockheadsYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before My Sharona: How Power Pop Became Power Pop Trash Theory 2022-05-27 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!The Beatles broke up in 1970. Emerging two years later, Power Pop was an attempt to resurrect the Fab Four’s early days. What did it sound like? Impossibly catchy tunes with attitude, taking the contagious harmonies, jangly guitars and la la las of the British Invasion groups, and making them punchier, sometimes heavier. Pop music but powerful. Key bands like Raspberries, Big Star, The Flamin Groovies and Cheap Trick lamenting, yearning and crying about young love in a way that you couldn’t help but sing along to. The genre would hit its commercial peak at the end of the 70s. But what were the essential steps along the way, the key tracks and influencers? And how did it get to the point where “My Sharona” could become the biggest-selling US single of 1979. This is how Power Pop became Power Pop.#powerpop #bigstar #musicdocumentary This video is sponsored by Surfshark.Additional Writing by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:53 Ad Time02:03 The Beatles & The British Invasion08:16 The Other Side of the Atlantic11:34 Sugar, Sugar & The Rise of Bubblegum Pop15:12 Badfinger: The New Fab Four?16:55 Raspberries: The First Power Pop Band19:39 Big Star: December Boys Got It Bad22:09 Todd Rundgren: And Make It Loud and Clear23:34 The Return of US Power Pop28:54 Glam Rock & The Bay City Rollers31:23 Stiff Records & The Outcasts of Pub Rock34:09 When Power Pop & Pop Punk Collide36:56 The Records: The Writ Has Hit The Fan38:41 Cheap Trick: Didn't I, Didn't I, Didn't I...40:52 The New Wave-ification of US Power Pop45:22 The Knack: ...My Thighs, SharonaYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Running Up That Hill: How Kate Bush Became Queen of Alt-Pop | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-05-04 | The mid-80s was make-or-break time for Kate Bush. Since her breakthrough in 1978, she’d been gradually alienating her fans with successive ambitious but non-commercial left turns. As such, her label EMI was seriously concerned for her future as a pop artist. However, that all changed in 1985. She returned after 18 months at her farmhouse recording studio with her weirdness intact and a song about Faustian-deals, body swapping and the power of love. And it saved her career. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God).”#KateBush #runningupthathill #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:02 The Dramatic Left Turn of The Dreaming10:03 Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)17:53 Hounds of Love "It's in the Trees, It's Coming"21:45 The Ninth Wave "Little Light Shining"26:18 What Kate Bush Did NextYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
PARTY HARD - The Many Faces of Andrew WK Trash Theory 2022-04-01 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!Mainstream Radio in 2001 was a weird time to listen in. There was loud abrasive anger: Linkin Park, Staind and Eminem. Hyperactive teenaged immaturity: blink-182, Sum 41 and American Hi-Fi. Plus Max Martin-produced pop bubblegum: Britney Spears and N*Sync. And Andrew WK contained shades of all of the above. Heavier than almost anything else in the mainstream, but sugary sweet like the purest pop, his debut single was a Vodka Redbull smashed into your ear canal, an punishingly uplifting tune released in the aftermath of the worst tragedy to befall the US in living memory. This is the story of “Party Hard” and How Andrew WK is not who you think he is.This video is sponsored by Surfshark.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Oblivion (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Prologue02:14 An Introduction: Who is Andrew WK?06:23 I Love NYC: "You Can't Stop What You Can't End"10:21 Party Hard: "And Everything is All Right"16:16 But Really... Who is Andrew WK?22:52 The Impact of Andrew WK: "Music Is Worth Living For"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How Motörhead & Ace of Spades United The Punks & Metalheads | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-03-18 | In the 70s, there was metal - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple. And then there was punk, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned. Two separate entities that rarely if ever mixed. However a band both subcultures could agree on was Motörhead.Led by the hoarse rumble of Lemmy, with their first three albums they cemented their place as one of the loudest bands Britain has ever produced. But the lead single from their fourth album proved they could be metal heavy, mangle it with a punk attitude and still be able to crossover to the pop charts. This is New British Canon and this is the story of "Ace of Spades."#Motorhead #Lemmy #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - Maestro TlakaelelLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Prologue00:51 Lemmy: An Introduction04:00 Motörhead: "Remember Me Now..."10:55 "The Only Card I Need is...": Ace of Spades16:06 The Enduring Impact of MotörheadYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out & The New Rock Revolution | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-03-04 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!The British Indie Disco has a long tradition. Dating back to the days of Orange Juice and New Order, through The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, it was Guitar Pop that moved you, that you could dance to. But after the death of Britpop there was little to groove to. You can sway and sob to Coldplay, you can do a hyperactive pogo to The Libertines but you can’t dance. In 2004 Franz Ferdinand reignited this shimmying fire by again colliding jangle and funk. And they did so with the best love as a battlefield metaphor this side of Pat Benatar. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Take Me Out.”#FranzFerdinand #IndieMusic #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Prologue01:53 Franz Ferdinand: An Introduction07:10 "So If You're Lonely...": Creating Take Me Out13:05 "You Say You Don't Know": The New Rock RevolutionYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Manic Street Preachers: The Story of THE HOLY BIBLE | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-02-23 | For those that adored the Manic Street Preachers in the early 90s, no other band will ever compare. At first mixing political rhetoric and literary wit with populist glam punk, they kicked back against the impartial shoegaze, baggy and acid House scenes, and, for the first time since the Smiths, they felt like a British band that actually had something to say. Their masterwork 1994’s The Holy Bible, formed of dark metallic post-punk, tangled head on with the worst impulses of human-kind, masterminded by their driving force “guitarist,” Richey Edwards. But if one gazes too deeply into the abyss, there is a chance that person might get lost. This is New British Canon and this is the story of The Holy Bible. “4 stone 7 pounds”#ManicStreetPreachers #TheHolyBible #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Clouds (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Prologue01:11 Manic Street Preachers: An Introduction08:42 "I Want Everyone Corrupt": Faster13:29 "The Sky is Swollen Black": Creating The Holy Bible17:35 "Such Beautiful Dignity in Self Abuse": 4st 7lb24:58 The Aftermath of The Holy Bible27:27 "Libraries Gave Us Power": A Design For LifeYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Radio Radio - Elvis Costello vs. Everything | New British Canon Trash Theory 2022-02-04 | Van Halen’s David Lee Roth once said: “Rock critics love Elvis Costello because rock critics look like Elvis Costello.” When he first appeared on Top of the Pops in September 1977, beyond Buddy Holly and Hank Marvin, there had been few rock stars with the nerd aesthetics of Elvis Costello. Though much too musically competent to be truly punk, he possessed a tongue bathed in acid and a remarkable ability to turn a phrase. But while this Angry Young Man persona made him a star, it would also destroy him. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Radio Radio.”#ElvisCostello #SNL #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:47 "They Say I Got No Respect:" Elvis Steals From the King06:16 ...And The Attractions: Elvis Gets Arrested10:20 "Radio is a Sound Salvation:" Elvis Bites that Hand15:33 "Better Do As You Are Told:" Elvis Punks SNL19:41 "Get Happy:" The End of BitternessYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk Trash Theory 2022-01-22 | Few genres have had the lasting impact of punk. 1976 is one of those seismic dividing lines in popular music. A history destroying year zero. The point after which everything changed. It was the year that The Ramones debut was released, the year that the first singles from the UK Punk scene were set loose upon an unprepared public. And while the punks wanted to remove themselves from the past, burn all that had come before, nothing happens within a vacuum. These bands didn't appear out of nowhere with the key principles of the genre locked in place. This innovative minimalist, three-chords and the truth, turbo-powered rebellious music had to have precedent. There were other artists that lead up to this era-defining moment in music that are either forgotten, ignored or not given credit. This is how Punk became punk.#Punk #PunkHistory #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking and Additional Writing by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:00 Before 1964: How Protopunk Became Protopunk06:33 The British Invasion10:00 Los Saicos10:56 US Garage Rock 16:20 The Velvet Underground17:56 The MC519:14 The Stooges20:53 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band22:20 UK Protopunk24:32 Glam Rock29:29 US Regional Protopunk33:39 New York & CBGB's37:46 Pub Rock39:45 The Saints40:44 Sex PistolsYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Why Feeder Are Way More Than Their Biggest Hit (Buck Rogers) | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-12-17 | The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory12211By 1997 Britpop was winding down. But Brit Rock had a new wave of bands that preferred heaviness to cribbing from the Beatles. Amongst this lot were Feeder, framed as the plucky underdogs. At first dubbed the “British Smashing Pumpkins”, Feeder hit the scene delivering grunge-affected heavy pop gems imbued with heart, charm and nostalgia for better days. Though they would score twenty Top 40 singles, their 2001 hit about a brand new car would be the one that remains glued in the national consciousness, in spite of their frontman’s enduring indifference to it. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of “Buck Rogers.”#feeder #BuckRogers #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:20 "Don't Wait Up Because I Won't Be Home"06:12 "Buck Rogers": "I Think We're Gonna Make It"10:25 Echo Park: 2001 - The Good Year13:47 Comfort in Sound: 2002 - The Bad Year17:52 Feeder Twenty Years LaterYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How blink-182 & “What’s My Age Again?” Forever Altered Pop-Punk Trash Theory 2021-12-03 | Blink-182 are a punk dividing line. Green Day’s Dookie and The Offspring’s Smash proved that a punk rock band could, with the correct pop inflection, sell several million records. But Enema of the State showed that songs about girls, partying and prank phone calls were not only lucrative but also ripe for repetition. With their preference for video clip nudity and gross-out stage banter, alongside American Pie and South Park, blink were the Zeitgeist of 1999. And their blockbuster single that reflected on this immaturity would blast them way beyond the punk rock community . This is the story of how “What’s My Age Again?” kinda ruined Punk forever.#blink182 #PopPunk #MusicDocumentaryMark Hoppus by Mic The Snare.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:03 "I Guess This is Growing Up"05:20 Recording Enema of the State: "Work Sucks, I Know"08:51 What's My Age Again: "I Wore Cologne..."12:54 The Impact of "What's My Age Again?"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Jet Black Pop Darlings (Spellbound) | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-11-19 | The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory11211All the first wave UK Punk Bands had their own take/style on the genrething. The Sex Pistols were the troublemakers. The Clash were the political ones. Buzzcocks championed indie and pop-punk. But Siouxsie and the Banshees throughout their career were many things. Incompetent noisemerchants. Cold wave innovators. Jet black pop darlings. But most see them as the designers of gothic rock, even if the band hated the association. 1981’s Juju is their darkest, bleakest release, with tales of voyeurism, murder and shadowy magic, shot through with the fluid post-punk invention of guitarist John McGeoch. But yet it also features the band at their most pop, Siouxsie Sioux’s melodious siren call entrancing the Top of the Pops crowd as well as her Sioux-ettes. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Spellbound.”#SiouxsieandtheBanshees #Goth #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Skillshare.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:05 Siouxsie & The Banshees Mk I & II08:44 Regrouping & Kaleidoscope14:13 Writing & Recording Juju19:46 The Aftermath of JujuYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Effortless Quiet Storm Cool of SADE & Smooth Operator | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-11-05 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!Britain is not known for its soul music. But in the 1980s there was a nostalgic wave of British acts that were enthralled by the sound: Phil Collins was covering the Supremes, Soft Cell and Dexys Midnight Runners were in love with obscure R&B 45s and there was an influx of white-fronted plastic soul groups like Spandau Ballet, ABC and late era Roxy Music. But adding some legitimacy and heat to the mix was Sade. Their debut album Diamond Life defined the 80s for many, its warm sensuality the soundtrack for many an intimate moment, while singles like “Your Love Is King,” “When am I Going to Make a Living?” and “The Sweetest Taboo” quiet-stormed the charts. But who was this band? This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Smooth Operator.”#Sade #QuietStorm #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Surfshark.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)B-Side - Pen UnubisJesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction02:10 Pride & The Origins of Sade The Band07:05 Writing & Recording Diamond Life12:14 "There's a Quiet Storm..."17:16 "I'm Not Very Good at the Business of Being a Pop Star"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Band Too Heavy for Britpop (Skunk Anansie - Weak) | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-10-15 | The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory10211As you may know from watching New British Canon: 90s Britain was consumed by Britpop. But Running parallel to this, featuring louder guitars, more working class backgrounds and championed by Kerrang! was Britrock. Awkwardly wedged between these groups, Skunk Anansie evaded all classification. Led by their physically slight yet vocally colossal lead singer Skin, the band were a riotous mix of hard rock, dub and punk. Their social consciousness made it so they were always fighting an uphill battle, but their defiant music and live presence couldn’t be ignored. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of “Weak.”#SkunkAnansie #Britrock #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Skillshare.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Unicorn Heads - Drifting at 432 HzB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:17 The Origins of Skunk Anansie05:15 Recording Paranoid & Sunburnt09:44 Skunk Anansie vs Categorisation13:20 Skunk Anansie vs The WorldYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Before Nevermind: How Grunge Became Grunge Trash Theory 2021-09-30 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!In 1991 music changed forever. Three misfits from Aberdeen, Washington unleashed “Smells Like Teen Spirit” onto the world and alternative rock became the mainstream. Grunge wasn’t so much a genre as a close knit selection of bands that came from the same approximate area, its epicentre being Seattle. The Sabbathy-doom of Soundgarden sounded little like the Garage Rock bluster of Mudhoney. But at the same time they were all tied together with a sense of exi-stential angst, unhurried tempos and dirty, sludgy, grungy audio qualities. But what was this scene? What were the essential steps along the way, the key tracks and influencers? And how did it get to the point where Nirvana could dethrone Guns N’ Roses as America’s biggest rock band. This is the journey to Nevermind: how Grunge became Grunge. #Nirvana #Grunge #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Surfshark.Additional writing and research by Serenity AutumnMore information on Bam Bam from A Grrl's Two Sound Cents: youtube.com/watch?v=RKDyW3VtcT0SoundtrackLuar - Clouds (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)B-Side - Pen UnubisJesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentJesse Galagher - Spirit of FireLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:58 The Prehistory of Grunge04:59 Bam Bam06:47 Green River & Deep Six09:05 Melvins10:37 The Influence of Alternative Rock13:18 Screaming Trees15:04 Mudhoney & Sub Pop17:05 Soundgarden19:33 Nirvana & Bleach21:18 Mother Love Bone & Temple of the Dog24:26 Alice in Chains27:00 Outside Washington29:21 Pearl Jam31:41 Nevermind and Everything AfterYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How BIPP Unveiled Sophies Vision of Hyperpop | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-09-17 | The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory09211 In its original form, Synth-pop looked toward the future. Musicians making a guess at what the 21st Century would sound like. But in the 2010s, music at large just wanted to recycle what had happened 40 years ago. In bringing a forward thinking approach to dance-pop, UK Producer SOPHIE was different. Unwilling to follow the constraints of old and obsessed with the purest of pop, SOPHIE’s bouncing metallic second single laid the groundwork for Bubblegum Bass, Hyperpop and some of the most inventive chart-pop production in recent memory. But was the world ready for the future of pop music? This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Bipp.” #SOPHIE #Hyperpop #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Skillshare.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Clouds (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction00:58 BIPP: Pop Also Means Explode07:47 Charli XCX & The Vroom Vroom EP 14:04 Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides18:31 The Lasting Legacy of SOPHIEYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
The Violent Desire of PJ Harveys Rid Of Me | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-08-20 | The first 1000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/trashtheory08211Before PJ Harvey was a solo artist, they were the best rock band Britain had produced since The Clash. Amongst the shoegazers, janglepoppers and the last strains of baggy, PJ Harvey were Britain’s shining blues-punk hope, showing that we had alternative music just as vis-ceral, vital and loud as American grunge. With their first album, the three-piece stampeded their way into the ample praises of NME, Spin and Rolling Stone. But their 1993 major label debut stretched the limits of how violent, uncomfortable and darkly humorous a mainstream album could be; its title-track the unlikely duality of unforgiving fury and unrepentant desire. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Rid Of Me.”#PJHarvey #AlternativeRock #MusicDocumentaryThis video is sponsored by Skillshare.Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.SoundtrackLuar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - The Golden PresentB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)00:00 Introduction01:17 The Origin of PJ Harvey04:06 Album Number One: "But You Leave Me Dry"09:17 "Relationships Don't Just End, They Splatter"16:45 "Lick My Legs, I'm On Fire/Lick My Legs of Desire"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
How Echo & The Bunnymen and God Wrote The Killing Moon | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-08-06 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!Stuck between the studied indie of The Smiths and the stadium-bothering rock of U2, Echo and The Bunnymen were one of a kind. Shackled with one of the oddest names in post-punk, but yet adored by the UK music press, their psychedelic yet doom-infused first three albums set them up as one of the most exciting bands in Britain, with singles like “Rescue,” “A Promise,” and “The Cutter” slowly gaining them higher chart placings and a more rabid fanbase. But on the cusp of the mainstream, with the potential to be the biggest band of the 1980s, they went to France, changed their sound and put all their faith in a song their singer heard in a dream. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “The Killing Moon.”#EchoandtheBunnymen #DonnieDarko #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.This video is sponsored by Surfshark.Soundtrack:Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)B-Side - Pen UnubisJesse Gallagher - Spirit of FireLuar - Ignite (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)0:00 Introduction02:01 Echo & The Liverpool New Wave06:17 Echo & The Pop Breakthrough11:50 Echo & "The Killing Moon"17:13 Echo & The Time Travelling BunnyYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Yet Again More Questions | Trash Theory 250K Q&A Trash Theory 2021-07-30 | I'm back for yet another round of Trash Theory-based questions and answers for celebrate 250K subscribers. All opinions in the video are mine and mine alone and most are used for comedic purposes. Don't take anything in this video too seriously. Enjoy!#q&a #trashtheory #questionsandanswersSoundtrack:Luar - Oblivion (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Subscribe for more Trash TheoryYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr patronize me here:patreon.com/TrashTheoryAmazon Wishlist:amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/Y24QIDBTGEJR?ref_=wl_share
The Hidden Battles Behind Evanescence & Bring Me to Life Trash Theory 2021-07-23 | The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory07211At the turn of the century Nu Metal was riding high. Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach were all selling millions of records, and angry boys rapping over Helmet-riffage and record scratches were the order of the day. Testosterone in mainstream rock was at an all time high. Emerging in 2003, Evanescence offered a twist on the format. At first derisively seen as merely “Linkin Park with a chick,” Evanescence had the chunky guitars and electronica flourishes but revitalised with gothic overtones and a feminine point of view in vocalist Amy Lee. But the music industry men, not knowing how to sell a female-fronted metal group, planned to make Evanescence sound more like everyone else. This is How “Bring Me To Life” was brought to life.#Evanescence #BringMeToLife #DocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.This video is sponsored by Skillshare.Soundtrack:Luar - Beyond (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)Jesse Gallagher - Satya YugaB-Side - Pen UnubisLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)0:00 Introduction01:33 The Origin of Evanescence05:42 Dancing with the Daredevil in the Pale Moonlight12:08 The Immediate and Massive Success of Evanescence16:14 What Amy Lee Did NextYou can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
Cant Stand Me Now - The Shipwreck of The Libertines | New British Canon Trash Theory 2021-07-09 | Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE!After OK Computer, British guitar music kind of stalled. Britpop was dead. Travis and Coldplay were there leading the way, with Cast, Embrace and Stereophonics filling the gaps. It was anthemic, aspirational, acoustic but lacked energy and bite. But then the Libertines! Taking notes from The Kinks, Jam, Clash and Strokes they enlivened the British indie scene, singles like “What a Waster” and “Time For Heroes” reveling in reckless abandon, Wildian lyricism and tales about rock’n’roll valhalla. But by their first NME cover, the band were disintegrating under a wave of drugs, arrests and punchups. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Can’t Stand Me Now.”#TheLibertines #PeteDoherty #MusicDocumentaryFact-checking by Serenity Autumn.This video is sponsored by Surfshark.Soundtrack:Luar - Beyond (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)B-Side - Pen UnubisJesse Gallagher - Maestro TlakaelelLuar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)0:00 Introduction02:23 The Albion Sets Sail: Up The Bracket08:00 The First Dissolution of The Libertines11:54 "Can't Stand Me Now"17:32 "An Ending Fitting For The Start"You can also follow me here:Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheoryFacebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYTOr support me on Patreon:patreon.com/TrashTheory
