(Part 2) Top products from r/industrialmusic
We found 3 product mentions on r/industrialmusic. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible & Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock
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Well, the bands that made it out of the 70s were the exception rather than the rule. And the Pistols (and the Damned, and countless other "proper" punk bands) were really just recycling '50s rock & roll, but louder and sneerier. Initially it was interesting and "arty" but it became a rigid template incredibly quickly.
There's a reason Lydon went on to PiL - because he was clearly better than punk would let him be as Johnny Rotten. And Siouxsie Sioux and Pete Murphy effectively invented Goth because equally, punk wasn't open to the things they wanted to do. The bands that stuck with it - UK Subs, The Damned, even the Clash - just recycled the old stuff or kept with mainstream pop/rock styles into the '80s.
What I've read of the original punk scene tends to paint it as aggressively conservative. The bands may have initially been "experimental" but once the die was cast, that was it. TG were lumped in with punk initially, although they were clearly much more of an intellectual endeavour, because of their transgressive style. Subcultures, scenes and music genres weren't really that much of a thing to most people, so there was a huge amount of crossover in who would play gigs and what the audience would be like.
You should read 'Lipstick Traces' by Greil Marcus, 'Rip It Up And Start Again' by Simon Reynolds and, most certainly, 'Wreckers of Civilization' by Simon Ford, for a great cross-section of the late 70s music scene.
You should read his autobiography. I picked my copy up at the local Barnes & Noble.
The short of it is - he was always interested in more aggressive music. He essentially was "forced" to create With Sympathy because that's what his record company wanted, because that's what would sell. Only after did he cut his ties and make the music he really wanted.
He describes it as "ass backwards"/"back-asswards".
Most bands' first albums are all about heart and soul, then they sell out after a while.
However, Al started his career by selling out first, then did the albums he really wanted.
Yeah, in recent years he is.
I know that in his memoirs he was mis-crediting Mike Scaccia for things that he was never involved in to start with.
I highly recommend Chris Connelly's memoir which predates Al's, and also comes in Audio book form, narrated by Chris himself ( It's HILARIOUS!!).