Word: protopunk
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...other songs of Richman's are as timeless and universal as the sound and feeling of Richman driving alone "in love with modern girls and modern rock & roll." That sound and feeling have often led to Richman being labeled a "protopunk," and it is true that he played passionate minimalist rock in a time otherwise filled mostly with orchestral, pretentious crap and inoffensive James Taylor wimpery. Richman's influence is all over '77 punk, as you know if you've ever heard the Sex Pistols' massacre of "Roadrunner." And a cover of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in Alex Cox's brilliant...
...cute idea to have Cruise, the movies' all-American guy, gussied up like Pierre Clementi, protopunk of French art films. It's a bad idea to let Cruise vanish for almost an hour in the middle of his picture. But by then the film's central flaw has been exposed. A vampire story needs vampires, sure, but it also needs a human victim to lead the audience into the vortex and help them escape it. Otherwise, the fear factor evaporates, and you get this mishmash: an interview in a void, a vampire movie with underbite...
Ramones: End of the Century (Sire). Producer Phil Spector may have smoothed out this protopunk band, but their edges still cut and the humor strikes home...
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