Another Year In Pop: 12

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tick rate on these polls has been down a little recently but I sense that may change this week as two of the most hotly-tipped new releases share chartspace. Yes, Guillemots and One Night Only are back! Back!! BACK!!!!

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Comments

[koganbot]

Well, I'd elaborate on this by saying that a lot of his complaint is about the defeat of social democracy in favor of American individualism, his argument about rock and pop being that its smashing of tradition made it seem (or actually be) progressive in its time (the '60s) but that this smash actually cleared the way for Thatcherism. Whereas Britain should be leaning towards Europe (and Eurodisco!) instead.

Am I getting that right? The argument is way way simplistic, and he does not understand the Rolling Stones, but it's definitely worth thinking about. But I'm not sure he's arguing that Britain is a 51st state, that Thatcherism was merely Reaganism imported east, or that capitalism is fundamentally American. Sinker to thread. (Or Carmody to thread, for that matter!)