RTP-area local music and culture

[Viva <jockoball AT earthlink.net>]

I believe that would be the Smiths - Suffer Little Children - from the album 
The Smiths.

Viva



-----Original Message-----
From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
Sent: Dec 2, 2004 9:21 AM
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: 24 HR Party People!

Who was it that wrote, Manchester Manchester, so much
to answer for?



--- bendy <bendy AT duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> Steven Keith wrote:
> >    But the
> > Monday's?  Neither my wife or I or had heard of
> them. Must a' been
> > swimming too long in the main stream.
> 
> Happy Mondays were huge in England, a band that
> totally defined their 
> moment- to English ears, they defined all that was
> Manchester in one 
> fell swoop- New Order, Buzzcocks, the Fall, the
> Smiths. I was living in 
> England at the time, and they totally baffled my
> American ears. Sounded 
> like a bunch of stoners trying to be funky. I bought
> a record, and sold 
> it right away to the singer in my band, who couldn't
> believe I didn't 
> like it. Mancurian Soul, matey. Not only did you
> have to be there, you 
> had to be born there.
> 
> In America, they were, at most, stars of the cutout
> bin, like EMF and 
> Jesus Jones.
> 
> I think that kind of jumbled dance rock fills a
> social niche similar jam 
> rock in America- replace the pot, jeeps, and white
> ballcaps with 
> ecstacy, hi-end cell phones and jogging suits.
> 
> Bendy
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