Electric Shock, page 78
47. ‘Our raps may be about cars’: DE, 20 December 1979.
48. ‘new-found form of black dance music’: ibid.
Chapter 24: Be Disrespectful
1. ‘Every time a 60s superstar’: NME, 5 October 1974.
2. ‘It’s a whole new generation’: RS, 30 January 1975.
3. ‘We want to tell you that what is around’: National Lampoon, September 1972.
4. ‘a decade of dullness’: RS, 27 December 1979.
5. ‘shit all over the stage’: Cream, October 1971.
6. ‘The big stations only play’: RS, 17 November 1979.
7. ‘The only way this whole rock ’n’ roll’: NME, 16 March 1974.
8. ‘total lack of self-consciousness’: NME, 25 August 1973.
9. ‘in love with rock and roll’: NME, 8 November 1975.
10. ‘within it, you can encompass’: NME, 26 April 1975.
11. ‘simple, primitive, direct, honest’: in Heylin, Penguin Book, p. 105.
12. ‘retard bop’: NME, 15 May 1976.
13. ‘I think their music does contain’: NME, 27 October 1973.
14. ‘Could this be the New Wave?’: RS, 26 October 1972.
15. ‘All this talk about getting’: NME, 14 September 1974.
16. ‘challenged by a lot of wild boys’: ibid.
17. ‘If rock becomes safe’: NME, 19 June 1976.
18. ‘dictatorship rock’: NME, 9 February 1974.
19. ‘Be childish. Be irresponsible’: quoted in Savage, England’s Dreaming, p. 44.
20. ‘a cartoon vision of rock and roll’: NME, 8 November 1975.
21. ‘a preconceived idea’: RS, 21 April 1977.
22. ‘quite layered and structured’: Rombes, Cultural Dictionary of Punk, p. 223.
23. ‘the punk ethic, anti-intelligence’: RS, 5 July 1973.
24. ‘could be the Bay City Rollers’: Savage, England’s Dreaming, p. 122.
25. ‘quartet of spiky teenage misfits’: NME, 21 February 1976.
26. ‘It is very likely that there will’: DM, 2 December 1976.
27. ‘Punk rock people’: DM, 1 December 1976.
28. ‘the Sex Pistols were programmed’: Savage, England’s Dreaming, p. 150.
29. ‘This “new wave” has got to take in’: Sniffin’ Glue, 28 September 1976.
30. ‘the dormant energy’: NME, 6 November 1976.
31. ‘dole queue rock’: NME, 26 March 1977.
32. ‘Punk futures’: DM, 22 June 1977.
33. ‘There is evidence’: Church Times, 25 March 1977.
34. ‘Punks are the same as the Government’: Sniffin’ Glue, August–September 1977.
35. ‘This scene, if there is’: Sniffin’ Glue, February 1977.
36. ‘Chuck away the fucking stupid’: Sniffin’ Glue, March 1977.
37. ‘All the new groups’: NME, 2 April 1977.
38. ‘English punk was now open’: Savage, England’s Dreaming, p. 301.
39. ‘Punk rock is finished’: Who Put the Bomp, March 1978.
40. ‘built-in obsolescence’: ibid.
41. ‘What I picked up most’: Letts, Culture Clash, p. 89.
42. ‘There are so many new bands’: Who Put the Bomp, January 1979.
43. ‘I was the originator of punk rock’: Record Mirror, 26 June 1976.
44. ‘This is a chord’: Sideburns, January 1977.
45. ‘It’s the small bands that interest me’: Sounds, August 1980.
46. ‘Commercial punk was a sham’: Glasper, The Day the Country Died, p. 11.
47. ‘music for people who hate music’: Rombes, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, p. 167.
48. ‘a disavowal – even a betrayal’: ibid., p. 166.
49. ‘We got everything so late’: author interview, 1992.
50. ‘seemed incredibly nihilistic’: Lahickey, All Ages, p. 96.
51. ‘really struck by the fact’: ibid.
52. ‘We were definitely pissing off’: ibid., p. 97.
53. ‘It really seemed like total rebellion’: ibid., p. 20.
Chapter 25: Dance Stance
1. ‘Success is nothing’: BM, June 1976.
2. ‘The poor blacks’: NME, 11 December 1976.
3. ‘dark and uninviting’: NME, 7 September 1974.
4. ‘The base of the music’: ibid.
5. ‘Pretty soon a bunch’: NME, 27 October 1973.
6. ‘They can get all the Moog’: RS, 1 March 1973.
7. ‘As a matter of very serious’: Record Mirror, 4 February 1984.
8. ‘You can develop a physical’: RS, 13 February 1975.
9. ‘We are the first German group’: NME, 6 September 1975.
10. ‘It was very gay’: Malins, Depeche Mode, p. 13.
11. ‘a time of experimentation’: Garratt, Adventures in Wonderland, p. 72.
12. ‘Groups that are dominated’: Keyboard, June 1982.
13. ‘I play manually’: ibid.
14. ‘The important lesson to be learned’: Keyboard, April 1987.
15. ‘With better machines’: NME, 6 September 1975.
16. ‘It’s hypnotic as dance’: Keyboard, June 1982.
17. ‘Techno sounds like a pneumatic’: DE, 10 March 1994.
18. ‘Most acid records’: Soul Underground, December 1988.
19. ‘I had a razor blade’: Keyboard, August 1997.
20. ‘I’d let it play along’: Kirn, Keyboard Presents, p. 48.
21. ‘Stripped of their songs’: Garratt, Adventures in Wonderland, pp. 42–3.
22. ‘The contents of the lyrics’: Hillegonda Rietvald in Redhead, Club Cultures Reader, p. 110.
23. ‘it’s all about feeling’: Soul Underground, January 1989.
24. ‘I remember how friendly’: Garratt, Adventures in Wonderland, p. 28.
25. ‘We worked out that the average’: Stock, Hit Factory, p. 46.
Chapter 26: Presenting the Fantasy
1. ‘The illusion that rock and roll’: RS, 24 May 1984.
2. ‘All these A&R people’: RS, 10 November 1983.
3. ‘The man must decide’: BB, 17 November 1979.
4. ‘If you want to sell records’: RS, 5 December 1985.
5. ‘When we make videos’: RS, 10 November 1983.
6. ‘Practically every video I see’: press release, summer 1984.
7. ‘a shallow, tasteless’: ibid.
8. ‘I wear make-up’: Malins, Depeche Mode, p. 33.
9. ‘good old-fashioned hysteria’: RS, 10 November 1983.
10. ‘MTV instigated a more profound’: RS, 27 September 1984.
11. ‘Metal has broadened’: BB, 27 April 1985.
12. ‘I call it “girl-friendly sound”’: Roth, Crazy from the Heart, p. 111.
13. ‘The closer we dared to get’: RS, 24 May 1984.
14. ‘fetishization of instrumental’: Walser, Running from the Devil, p. 94.
15. ‘We came up with some fast’: Ebony, December 1982.
16. ‘[He] fascinated the female’: BB, 1 March 1980.
17. ‘Never trust the teller’: Studies in Classic American Literature (1923).
18. ‘Her voice is thin’: RS, 20 December 1984.
19. ‘I do not cling’: RS, 23 March 1989.
20. ‘I guess I used to think’: RS, 5 May 1988.
21. ‘Someday, Your Music Collection’: MusicVision advertisement, March 1985.
22. ‘Is there anything behind the symbols’: Cash, Cash, pp. 12–13.
23. ‘The New Age audience’: Q, June 1988.
24. ‘That Michelob [beer] music’: RS, 1 June 1989.
25. ‘the name [of the Who]’: RS, 13 July 1989.
26. ‘Woodstock is what made’: RS, 24 August 1989.
27. ‘Its father was a turntable’: ADC advertisement, 1977.
28. ‘I always want an outstretched hand’: Spin, May 1985.
Chapter 27: That Scream
1. ‘After hearing Herc’: BM, December 1983–January 1984.
2. ‘I was writing poetry’: Soul Underground, June 1988.
3. ‘We don’t have to go to the leather’: Bradley, Anthology of Rap, p. 121.
4. ‘Too many acts think that all’: Soul Underground, January 1988.
5. ‘the Beatles of hip hop’: Weingarten, It Takes a Nation of Millions, p. 119.
6. ‘No one could even imagine’: ibid., p. 123.
7. ‘my biggest contribution to rap’: RS, 15 November 1990.
8. ‘Back then there weren’t any’: Spin, May 1985.
9. ‘One of the positive things’: RS, 14 June 1990.
10. ‘I just got a tape’: RS, 20 September 1990.
11. ‘No one ever brings up’: RS, 14 June 1990.
12. ‘Jews are responsible for the majority’: quoted in Myrie, Don’t Rhyme, p. 128.
13. ‘Now that the focus has switched’: RS, 9 August 1990.
14. ‘In fields and warehouses’: Garratt, Adventures in Wonderland, p. 160.
15. ‘Football hooliganism’: Spence, The Stone Roses, p. 125.
16. ‘We saw some of the spirit’: Spence, p. 124.
17. ‘Pop music was saved by the advent’: ibid.
18. ‘Picture a thirteen-year-old’: The Closing of the American Mind (1993), p. 75.
19. ‘I saw a documentary’: RS, 1 October 1992.
20. ‘a blizzard of suicidal self-loathing’: Baddeley, Goth Chic, p. 263.
21. ‘an audio horror movie’: ibid., p. 261.
22. ‘If I hadn’t written those songs’: Apter, Never Enough, p. 161.
23. ‘Maintaining the punk rock’: quoted in Morrell, Nirvana, p. 83.
24. ‘I don’t feel the least bit guilty’: quoted in ibid., p. 119.
25. ‘It could have been sludge’: quoted in ibid., p. 56.
26. ‘Pantera have the ugliest’: RS, 30 June 1994.
27. ‘Rap is media control’: RS. 23 January 1992.
28. ‘I didn’t want to be no’: Vibe, September 1993.
29. ‘has no place in our society’: Vibe, February 1995.
30. ‘The greatest thing that ever happened’: ibid.
31. ‘The young kids – all the real’: Vibe, September 1993.
32. ‘a way for the gangs to battle’: RS, 7 August 1997.
33. ‘We knew the power of language’: Bradley, Goth Chic, pp. 127–8.
34. ‘Rap is really funny’: RS, 6 August 1992.
35. ‘Gangsta rap is over’: Vibe April 1998.
Chapter 28: Audio Time Warp
1. ‘Touch dancing’: BB, 8 March 1980.
2. ‘Let’s face it’: RS, 2 June 1994.
3. ‘Big bands are young again’: BB, 8 March 1980.
4. ‘I don’t want to be a revivalist’: RS, 23 March 1989.
5. ‘What material would they do?’: BB, 16 February 1980.
6. ‘The Beatles are still saving’: quoted Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money (2009), p. 344.
7. ‘I don’t see it as a sell-out’: RS, 11 January 1990.
8. ‘meticulously hand-painted’: Franklin Mint advertisement, February 1995.
9. ‘Remakes break across’: RS, 26 January 1989.
10. ‘Listening to rock radio’: RS, 1 June 1989.
11. ‘There is now a formula’: RS, 16 May 1993.
12. ‘Most music is lazy’: RS, 27 May 1993.
13. ‘The notion of being a pop star’: RS, 2 November 1995.
14. ‘I think a lot of women’: Vibe, March 1995.
15. ‘white kids who are black’: RS, 2 November 1995.
16. ‘Miles Davis is my definition’: Spin, December 1985.
17. ‘Playing 11,000-seater’: RS, 1 June 1989
Chapter 29: The Murder of Music?
1. ‘I was listening to the radio’: realtalkny.uproxx.com.
2. ‘They’re murderers of music!’: The Late, Late Show (TV), October 2013.
3. ‘The nature of stardom’: Bower, Sweet Revenge, p. 241.
4. ‘We look at her as a franchise’: RS, 23 August 1990.
5. ‘we correct pseudo-singers’ pitch’: RS, 4 February 1993.
6. ‘Rock and roll is now’: RS, 19 December 1985.
7. ‘When Bono, at the Grammies’: Steyn, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, p. 226.
8. ‘We’ve returned an upturned iceberg’: Q, May 1987.
9. ‘There was a time when music’: RS, 10 November 1983.
10. ‘All the advertising has been directed’: RS, 16 June 1994.
11. ‘We gotta always cross-promote’: Vibe, August 1999.
12. ‘I started waking up’: ibid.
13. ‘Whoever put my shit on the Internet’: Alderman, Sonic Boom, p. 114.
14. ‘Music should be free, anyway’: Vibe, August 1994.
15. ‘The Internet’s completely over’: mirror.co.uk, 5 July 2010.
16. ‘Digital distribution means’: Alderman, Sonic Boom, p. 4.
17. ‘With iTunes, it’s not stealing’: Isaacson, Steve Jobs, p. 403.
18. ‘Not having a tangible item’: The Joy of the Single, BBC4 (TV), 2012.
19. ‘It’s possible the past 10 years’: pitchfork.com, 24 August 2009.
20. ‘With vinyl, the aesthetic’: quoted in Fisher, Politics of Post 9/11 Sound, p. 41.
21. ‘listening at top volume’: quoted in Johnson, Dark Side of the Tune, p. 169.
22. ‘These people haven’t heard heavy metal’: bbc.co.uk, 20 May 2003.
Chapter 30: Blurred Lines
1. ‘There are so many old things’: quoted in Guardian, 4 April 2014.
2. ‘I can’t imagine someone’: American Heritage October–November 1981.
3. ‘Rock ’n’ roll is out of date’: DM, 8 September 1956.
4. ‘perpetuates your adolescence’: NME, 22 November 1975.
5. ‘Nobody’s done a death album’: NME, 9 October 1976.
6. ‘[The 90s] was full of music’: Guardian, 25 February 2011.
7. ‘Latin culture gets recycled’: Spin, October 1999.
8. ‘prison escapes, massacres’: Grillo, El Narco, p. 170.
9. ‘MTV Jams has made R&B’: Vibe, November–December 1993.
10. ‘Eminem raps like a girl’: Vibe, June 1999.
11. ‘Many African youths’: Vibe, August 1997.
12. ‘I love Eminem’: Vibe, June 1999.
13. ‘Can one artist or group’: Vibe, August 1995.
14. ‘popped up like some kind’: Guardian, 14 November 2013.
15. ‘It’s important to me’: Vibe, September 1999.
16. ‘People always ask me’: RS, 27 May 1999.
17. ‘Rock has to absorb’: RS, 14 December 1995.
18. ‘In America now, Skrillex’: Guardian, 3 August 2012.
19. ‘Huge chunks [of the top 40]’: Guardian, 29 December 2012.
20. ‘Dance music now is pop music’: internationalmusicsummit.com, May 2012.
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