Found it!! HAIL the DAWN of NEW POP!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Er yes hidden away in a folder called Can't Play Won't Play '79 (?why here?) (i know what this chapter is about but not why this clipping is in it!) (hence why it took me three days to find it)

Headline: IT'S THE NEW GOLDEN AGE -- OFFICIAL
PAUL MORLEY
SINGLES OF THE WEEK 28 April 1979

1. EXHILARATING
The Raincoats: Fairytale in the Supermarket

2. TEASING
The Human League: The Diginity of Labour Pts 1-4

3. SPARKLING
David Bowie: Boys Keep Swinging
"In the absence of singles from the Undertones, Buzzcocks, Blondie, and Elvis Costello, it is, with the single below, best new pop item of the week.

4. SURPRISING
The Damned: Love Song
".. a severe and eloquent new pop song that has that breathless, careless rage with the sneaky addictive hook tucked away just like the early days...

5. HUMOURING
Iggy Pop: I'm Bored

SINGLES OF ANY OTHER WEEK:
Ware EP
Grow-Up EP
The Piranhas: Coloured Music
Nicky and the Dots: Never Been So Stuck
Poison Girls/Fatal Microbes
Dennis Brown: Ain't that Lovin' You

Comments

THEREFORE I JUDGE THAT...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

a new pop twelve =

i. dollar
ii. psychic tv
iii. haircut 100
iv. the associates
v. kim wilde
vi. level 42
vii. paul haig (the face and sound of '82!)
viii. yello
ix. human league
x. daf
xi. howard devoto
xii. teardrop explodes

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I have just finished reading Dave Rimmer 'Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop' (I may have misremembered the title, it's in the other room). Not sure what this proves.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no that's what it's called!

rimmer is a very tall somber man

[koganbot]

You guys have to realize that in the U.S. this stuff was marketed under the name "Modern Rock."

[koganbot]

Though I myself referred to it as "British haircut pop," which probably overrates it, but I must've been in a glass-half-full mood (cf. my calling it in the first WMS, "a new-wave pseudointellectual contamination of disco"). Rob Sheffield put me right several years later - when I asked him to make a tape of his favorite "British haircut pop" - by informing me that no one he knew called it anything but "new wave."

Limahl Lime Spice

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no wonder reynolds is so confused about the theories behind it all!!

xiii. the scars
xiv. fire engines (this isn't in order btw)
xv. the distractions
xvi. kid creole
xvii. SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES

Scmeery

[koganbot]

There weren't any theories behind it, though there were some that no doubt accompanied it, perhaps walking a bit diffidently, to the side.