Other commenters have already made most of the sensible points I would have made. But frankly, I think anyone whose raison d'ecrire is to fanboy Paul fuckin' Morley, deserves everything they get and then some.
And I ADORE post-punk pop sensibilities - give me 1982 any day you like. But using those acts as lazy flag-waving, balustrade-storming battering rams (mixed metaphors ftw) against young persons' chart music is borderline insulting - it's not as if music journalists at the time weren't making the same argument Stubbs is *about* ABC, Heaven 17, Soft Cell, blah blah zzzz! His presentism is very nearly astounding.
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Date: 2009-12-02 11:31 pm (UTC)And I ADORE post-punk pop sensibilities - give me 1982 any day you like. But using those acts as lazy flag-waving, balustrade-storming battering rams (mixed metaphors ftw) against young persons' chart music is borderline insulting - it's not as if music journalists at the time weren't making the same argument Stubbs is *about* ABC, Heaven 17, Soft Cell, blah blah zzzz! His presentism is very nearly astounding.