ROCK Sex: 'A Spooky Little Girl Like You' - Classics IV + Francoise Hardy = Barry Adamson

ROCK Sex shows how creative culture works.

Today's relay, A + B = C.

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One cool thing...

CLASSICS IV -"Spooky" (1968)



...plus another cool thing...

FRANCOISE HARDY -"Le Temps des Souvenirs" (1965)



...equals a new cool thing!

BARRY ADAMSON -"Something Wicked This Way Comes" (2006)




© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• SHAKE AND FINGER POP! Soul Music and the Interior Truth, with Music Player!

• WOMEN OF ROCK: The 1960s, with 2 Music Players!


• "Sour Times" - Lalo Schifrin > Portishead

• "She's Not There" - Bessie Smith + The Zombies = Malcolm McLaren


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: "Boredom"/ "Rip It Up" - Buzzcocks > Orange Juice

ROCK Sex lives a strange stray line.

Today, why all Indie bands exist because of The Buzzcocks.


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The Sex Pistols bulldozed the way for anyone to be a band. But The Buzzcocks proved you could record and release your own record.

The "Spiral Scratch" EP (1977) was self-recorded and released on their own label, the first Punk indie label ever. 'Do-It-Yourself' was the new revolution. Every upstart DIY act since owes them a debt of gratitude.

Here's their first single "Boredom", a deadpan and dead cheeky blast of energized ennui. Singer Howard Devoto makes sly puns while guitarist Pete Shelley subverts guitar heroes with a bored one-note solo that enthralls!

BUZZCOCKS -"Boredom" (1977)



The Punk ethos was to fearlessly try anything. Beyond the classic sound, the scene flourished into myriad styles with as many names.

Scotland's Orange Juice were wringers of the New Pop, which brought sunny melodicism back into the mix with askew angles. Amid the Disco chops and arch lyrics, they throw in lines from "Boredom" and a playful vamp on the guitar solo (at 2:10).

ORANGE JUICE -"Rip It Up" (1982)



The phrase "Rip it up and start again" perfectly summarized the PostPunk explosion of musics, and was used as the title to author Simon Reynbold's crucial overview, "Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984".



© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• DON'T TREAD ON ME: The Original Punk of 1960s Garage Rock, with Music Player!


• The Kinks > Sex Pistols > The Kinks

• "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" - Paul Revere > The Monkees > Sex Pistols

• "Don't Gimme Me No Lip Child" - Dave Berry > Sex Pistols


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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