Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revolution that focused the energies of Soviet art. The outsiders now became insiders; their opposition to the old order and its tastes was crystallized on a political level that, as artists, they could enthusiastically serve. But they were not content to be dandies like Marinetti. They wanted to construct. Hence their special relationship to the young Communist state. Today no revolutionary government that had just seized control of a vast, economically foundering country would bother with artists or art schools. The U.S.S.R. did so after the Revolution, thanks to two circumstances that hold true in no modern capitalist state. Print...
...able to whip out a record smaller than a conventional 45 and put it on a machine that will scan its data with a laser. The sound will produce, in the owner, a guarded but rather smug smile, and in the envious listener the impression that his old conventional rig at home produces the tonal qualities of two Dixie cups and a thread...
Close your books, it's a pop quiz. Only one question, but tricky. Multiple choice. Graham Parker's music is 1) new wave, 2) old wave, 3) no wave, 4) punk rock, 5) pub rock, 6) none of these, 7) all of these...
...movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty and ill-received live album and a subsequent wrangle with the Mercury record company. Recovering nicely, he recorded Squeezing Out Sparks in eleven days, and penned a lively little remembrance of his old label, whose title, Mercury Poisoning, tells the story snugly and settles a few scores too: "The company is cripplin' me/ The worst trying to ruin the best . . . I've got Mercury poisoning/ The best-kept secret in the West...
Whether administering lumps, re-examining old romances or launching new crusades, Parker's music has rediscovered its spirit and vigor. "Even if the subject of the song is depressing," Parker reflects, "I want to turn it into a celebration, in the sense that whatever it is, you can at least sing about it. That's what rock 'n' roll is anyway-a celebration." A large part of what it is, anyhow. And as a celebrator, as a seeker after fool's gold and as a straight-ahead rocker, Graham Parker makes the kind of music...