Can't wait for the dude claiming he tames AI, now it's safe and won't kill us all and for that he wants a milliontrillionbillion dollars.
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“‘Scenius’ stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius.”*…
The Hope & Anchor in Islington, a notable pub rock venueZachary Hastings Hooper on Mark Wilkerson‘s Pub Rock, an appreciation of a now largely forgotten legacy…
The history of popular music is one of continual evolution, with one generation inspired by and then replaced by the next. Think the Beatles and Rolling Stones usurping their idols Buddy Holly and Muddy Waters. In the U.K., conventional wisdom holds that the pretension and precision of early 1970s prog rock acts like Yes and Genesis were smashed by the intentional amateurism and outrage of later-decade punk rockers such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash. This is perhaps best represented by the image of Johnny Rotten’s “I Hate Pink Floyd” t-shirt.
Pub Rock (Bloomsbury), a new book by Mark Wilkerson, biographer of Pete Townshend and Thunderclap Newman, shines some light on the overlooked genre of pub rock that catalyzed the shift from prog to punk. Wilkerson traces the genre’s birth in London pubs in the early seventies and its gestation of the world-shattering punk and New Wave scenes that followed.
I’m the audience for this book. As a teenager honing his musical tastes in the late eighties, I was introduced, by MTV and college radio, to the sounds of angry young men like Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and Graham Parker. Digging into their back catalogs, I discovered that Lowe especially was deeply intertwined with something called pub rock; his old band, Brinsley Schwarz, had been a major player in that scene. At the same time, I realized that Stiff Records—home to Lowe, Costello, and Parker, as well as the Damned and Madness—was run by two pub rock managers [see here]. In a sense, I’ve been waiting for this book for decades. And now that it’s here, I’m happy to dust off some old records while cueing up some new (to me) selections.
Wilkerson characterizes pub rock as “simply music that was played in pubs. A diverse mix was represented there: Roots rock, country, R&B, soul and rock’n’roll—both the good-time variety and the harder-edged stuff.” Unlike the sounds dominating airwaves and filling stadiums, pub rock was unadorned and earnest. It was neither glam nor grandiose.
While sonically similar to more mainstream rock and roll, pub rock had a slyly subversive allure. These seemingly square guys (yes, they are all guys) were about to birth punk. Every budding music snob tries to earn their bona fides with obscure knowledge. So learning that the dude behind “Cruel to Be Kind” had a previous professional life and that “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace Love and Understanding” was a cover gave me an undeserved sense of superiority.
Pub Rock is part of the 33 ⅓ Genre series of primers on musical subgenres. It hews to the imprint’s mission, offering a quick, accessible entry point to a genre with little or no knowledge required, just curiosity. Like any good synopsis of a genre or musical scene, it sends the reader off to their favorite streamer or record store in search of a new listen or three.
In the age of the algorithm, we’re accustomed to being told, “If you like X, you’ll like Y.” However, snapshots like Wilkerson’s go beyond the “what” to tell you why you should add Dr. Feelgood or Brinsley Schwarz to your playlist.
As the book’s title indicates, the scene grew around a series of pubs in London. Groups like the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Band strongly influenced the nascent pub rock bands, but as Wilkerson notes, pub rock arose as big-name British acts were increasingly focused on selling out stadiums in America, and economic pressures were closing the venues that sustained the sixties scenes. Pubs, which had historically featured jazz acts, gave new bands opportunities to hone their skills and build followings. Wilkerson posits that intimate venues forced bands to up their game: proximity to Carlsberg-swilling audiences meant that you had to play your instruments and entertain the crowd without hiding behind light shows and heavy amplification.
The pub rock movement yielded a couple of minor hits, notably Ace’s “How Long,” now a staple of yacht rock radio. But many of its key figures became leaders in the punk and New Wave era. Ian Dury from Kilburn and the High Roads became the iconic leader of the Blockheads, while John Mellor from the 101ers became the even more iconic Joe Strummer of the Clash. Ace’s Paul Carrack had chart-topping success with both Squeeze and Mike + the Mechanics. The aforementioned Lowe went on to chart success as a solo artist, producer, and songwriter. Parker and Dave Edmunds enjoyed long careers. And pub rock’s DIY ethos—finding new places to play, hauling your own gear, building audiences from scratch—directly inspired the punk and New Wave scenes that followed.
It’s been said the Velvet Underground and the Ramones only sold a few copies of their debut albums but everyone who bought them started a band. It could be suggested that, similarly, everyone who encountered Eggs Over Easy or Brinsley Schwarz at the Tally Ho did the same. Artists as diverse as the Sex Pistols, Costello, Madness, and the Stranglers trace their roots to pub rock shows…
“Punk’s Pub Crawl,” from @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social.
For more, and videos of exemplary pub rock performances, see “Raising the bar: the chaotic story of pub rock.”
And for more listening suggestions, see “A beginner’s guide to pub rock in five essential albums.”
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As we give credit where credit is due, we might recall that it was on this date in 1976 the one of the core pub rock bands, Dr. Feelgood, scored their only No.1 UK album when their live LP Stupidity went to the top of the charts– the first ever live album to go to No.1 in the UK chart in its first week of release.
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This is the TPUSA dude that MAGA is sure was holding the detonator on the mic bomb that killed Charlie Kirk.
Yea dude, we remember. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. If Omar has done something wrong, she should pay the price. If this is trumped up charges to serve as red meat for your base, then we all just go back to laughing our asses off about you people. You fucked around until the midterm noose was around your neck and now you have to do something like this to try and make up for your major upcoming losses. Omar is going to be just fine, but you dick heads are actually going to have the law take you out. The REAL LAW, not Kash Patels goony eye gang.
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Ravens find another way to win behind Tyler Huntley: 'One of the coolest dudes' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-find-another-way-to-win-behind-tyler-huntley-one-of-the-coolest-dudes #NFL
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Is there any other source for the “ai researchers are picking up smoking because they believe ai will cure cancer” stuff besides the palantir dude? Because I just have a hard time picturing it. Not kicking the habit sure, but like, why not wear a radium hats or something that signals a similar belief in progress and doesn’t make you cough and smell?
IMO it’s some stupid nonsense dude made up in the moment or heard as a joke in a bar and thought it was real.
I mean I stand to be corrected, for sure.
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Oh, oh. I remember now. Back in the cabin in the woods, after confessing about the crime, he made a story about putting the money in a family tomb. Vincent Price said he heard the other dude in some delirium mention a secret room in the house. So that's why everyone' hunting for the secret room.
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‘Wow, dude. You’re an idiot’: why Kelly Clarkson is fighting over a $15,000 bird on social media
After having a Pretty Woman moment in a Brooklyn store, the singer-songwriter let rip on X
#KellyClarkson #Lifeandstyle #USnews #Music #Culture #Brooklyn #TheGuardian #
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Unless you knock her out dude you’re messing with the wrong Māori woman.
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@vega
Dude, that’s not expansion. Do you even know how countries join NATO? It's the free will of those countries. What you're spreading here is pure, stupid russian propaganda. Unlike fascist russia, NATO doesn't invade countries or try to claim territory through the use of force and systematic war crimes. Countries actually have to knock on the door and ask. To join #NATO a country must also meet certain requirements otherwise it will not be admitted. Here lies the small but significant difference: voluntary participation, rather than coercion and violence, as is the case on the russian side. Why the former Eastern Bloc countries joined, especially the Baltic states, is no secret and is obvious: It's fucking war criminal russia. Chechnya is just one more example. Most recently, Finland and Sweden joined. Why? Can you imagine why? Could it perhaps have something to do with fascist russia's invasion of #Ukraine? -
Guy on his phone on the train: "The AI they got on this train is going to kill us all!"
It's just saying the wrong stops, my dude. We're not hurtling towards Dead Man's Gulch.
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When the GDP looses elections the ICE agents will no longer be protected from law enforcement
ice are law enforcement, if you cant grasp that law enforcement can be bad then dude we are just simply fucked. do you know why law enforcement isnt stopping them? because theyre legally immune and engaged in federal law enforcement.
can you really not see that the system which we rode here in is not going to be our ride home?
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im not gonna lie dude, if i saw a self driving tesla speed through a school zone, knowing such a thing apparently isnt being addressed by the police or the regulators, i would follow and disable it.
what are they gonna do, sue me for disabling their RC car they were letting speed through a school zone? id stand on it, look the judge and the jury in the eye and say "i was protecting my kids and my neighbors kids from this unregulated self driving vehicle which is allowed to commit traffic violations i would be fined for. the police did nothing on purpose, regulators do nothing on purpose, everyone who can be bought by elon musk has been. i cannot be. do as you will."
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get it through your fucking head dude for real, the law is not morality, the law has been and is currently fucking evil dude, ice are law enforcement, you have to change, break, or ignore laws to resolve all of this. if you cant accept that then we might as well all buckle up for doing this for the rest of everyones lives.
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It really says a lot about the USA that good ol’ Captain America seems to enjoy punching dudes when they’re already on the floor
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If Kim Guilfoyle needed to get some dude to pay off her $100K Amex credit card and now she is fired for it, how ever will she book a flight back to the US?
Trump making people homeless again....
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people like to say that the people who took over after caesar was righteously killed crashed and burned rome, but dude lets be real, it was already ruined, and they let it go on so long that politically it was just caesars fiefdom. whats wilder is that they went into this from a position of murderous opposition to monarchy... but they still let it happen. nah dog, rome had already fallen, and people who idolize caesar should not be trusted.
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You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.
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That, my dudes & dudettes, is Russian-style Geran 5 drone in a military parade in Iran.
Brilliant strategy, Trump. You keep Russia in the game long enough againt #ukraine for them develop & send weapons to Iran.
Brilliant. They'll use it to hit your Silicon Valley friend's AI data centers in the GCC countries.
Brilliant. :)
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First off, dude is a genius.
Secondly, he lays bare the fact that you don't have to create this technology by stealing other people's work.
The tech companies are full of irredeemable assholes. That's why they felt the need to steal. @nigel https://unsociable.lowkey.party/@nigel/statuses/01M4MV08EDMRR7KVDJJERQM05N
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It’s all casual, dude.
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#GizmoAllChill“There you go man.
Keep as cool as you can.
Face piles of trials with smiles.
It riles them to believe
That you perceive the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.” - Moody Blues
