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...last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained elements of self-parody...
After hitting the market in October 1978 as an unassuming, mellow but cool version of punk music, the Police were marketed by A&M side by side with fellow "Catch a new wave"r Joe Jackson. Their first album produced a hit single on FM, "Roxanne". Their second album was a rush job, showing a respectable sense of humor and musical variation. Then, like Blondie, the Police unfortunately broke out of cult status with their third album, obscuring both where they were coming from and where they were going to. Last year's Zenyatta Mondatta was the last...
Here big Billy, the former lead singer of Gen (eration) X, a pioneer punk band, sells out in a big way, getting similar limited mileage out of Tommy James and the Shondells' "Mony Mony." Then there are two original throuwaway songs, and then last year's Gen X hit "Dancing With Myself". Four tunes. Hey, you only have to pay $4.50 for this. What a deal. Give me a throbbing bass drum, a digital recording studio, and I'll go re-record the theme from the Banana Splits...
...House has also cancelled plans with "Hypertension," an "excellent punk band," because an alcohol-free party would not draw enough students to pay the $600 fee charged by the band, Nicholas said. He added that the House "might never be able to get" the band again...
...Yeah, the mixer was the worst part of the week." Betsy agrees. "It was so anticlimactic. It was totally punk, it was bad, it was terrible, it was awful...