Towards a New Decade

1. Towards a New Decade Threats and new challenges towards the end of the 1970s

2. Rock music has become mainstream • Threats • Disco: Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta, 1977 • Punk, later new wave • Low birth rates from the early 1960s: the … • Glam rock • Teenybopper rock • Jazz rock • Afro rock • Latin rock

3. Punk and the New Wave • The Sex Pistols • Only two and a half years • Four singles and an album • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols • „Marxist” punk rock: The Clash • The Sex Pistols the first British punk band • The Clash were the definitive British punk. • The Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. • Influence of reggae • London Calling, from eponymous album, 1978 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AUJdqfLbbKKTPskvU2_GNq • Something about England, from Sandinista! 1980 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5-ZKMUpNl8 • Siouxsie and the Banshees • Magazine (also in the video) • Utravox, and synthsizer pop

4. London calling lyrics London calling to the faraway townsNow war is declared and battle come downLondon calling to the underworldCome out of the cupboard, you boys and girls London calling, now don't look to usPhony Beatlemania has bitten the dustLondon calling, see we ain't got no swing'Cept for the reign of that truncheon thing The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inMeltdown expected, the wheat is growing thinEngines stop running but I have no fear'Cause London is burning and I live by the river London calling to the imitation zoneForget it brother, you can go at it aloneLondon calling to the zombies of deathQuit holding out and draw another breath London calling and I don't wanna shoutBut while we were talking I saw you nodding out London calling, see we ain't got no highExcept for that one with the yellowy eyes The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inEngines stop running, the wheat is growing thinA nuclear error but I have no fear'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inEngines stop running, the wheat is growing thinA nuclear error but I have no fear'Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river Now get this, London calling, yes, I was there, tooAnd you know what they said? Well, some of it was trueLondon calling at the top of the dialAnd after all this, won't you give me a smile?London Calling I never felt so much alike

5. Something about England They say immigrants steal the hubcapsOf the respected gentlemenThey say it would be wine an' rosesIf England were for Englishmen againWell I saw a dirty overcoatAt the foot of the pillar of the roadPropped inside was an old manWhom time would not erodeWhen the night was snapped by sirensThose blue lights circled fastThe dancehall called for an' ambulanceThe bars all closed up fastMy silence gazing at the ceilingWhile roaming the single roomI thought the old man could help meIf he could explain the gloomYou really think it's all newYou really think about it tooThe old man scoffed as he spoke to meI'll tell you a thing or two I missed the fourteen-eighteen warBut not the sorrow afterwardsWith my father dead and my mother ran offMy brothers took the pay of hoods The twenties turned the north was deadThe hunger strike came marching south At the garden party not a word was said The ladies lifted cake to their mouthsThe next war began and my ship sailedWith battle orders writ in bedIn five long years of bullets and shellsWe left ten million deadThe few returned to old PiccadilyWe limped around Leicester SquareThe world was busy rebuilding itselfThe architects could not careBut how could we know when I was youngAll the canges that were to come?All the photos in the wallets on the battlefieldAnd now the terror of the scientific sunThere was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogsThey taught you how to touch your capBut through strikes an' famine an' war an' peaceEngland never closed this gapSo leave me now the moon is upBut remember all the tales I tellThe memories that you have dredged upAre on letters forwarded from hellThe streets were by now desertedThe gangs had trudged off homeThe lights clicked off in the bedsitsAn' old England was all alone

6. Reason for decline? Glam rock and teenybopper rock • Roxy Music, with Brian Ferry, „the suave, jaded Euro-sophisticate” • Both Ends Burning, 1975 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_r_1cYsnY&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DuWl5USRCPbe5I_zOiMzpF • Slade, „Cum on Feel the Noize” • Characteristic „slangish” language and circus outfits • Noddy Holder’s impressive voice • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsw668PVyY

7. Both Ends Burning lyrics Please don't ever let me downFor you know I'm not so sureDo I have the speed to carry on?Burn you out of my mindI know you're a flame that never fadesJungle red's a deadly shadeBoth ends burning, will the fires keep?Somewhere deep in my soul tonightBoth ends burningBurning, burnBoth ends burningBurning, burnNow my course is plain as dayRunning bold across to playBoth ends burning with a strange desireThat feeds the fire in my soul tonightI will dance the night awayLiving only for todayBoth ends burning while you're counting sheepHell, who can sleep in this heat this night? Both ends burningBurning, burnBoth ends burningBurning, burnTell me will I ever learn?It's too late, the rush is onBoth ends burning and I can't controlThe fire is raging in my soul tonightOh, will it never end?Put your foot around the bendDrive me crazy to an early graveTell me what is there to save tonight?Both ends burningBurning, burnKeep on burning 'til the end, 'til the endBoth ends burning 'til the end, until the endKeep on burning 'til the end, until the endBoth ends burning 'til the end, 'til the end

8. Cum on Feel the Noize Cum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe get wild, wild, wildBaby Come on!Well you think we have a lazy timeYou should know betterI don't know whyI don't know whySo you say I got a dirty mindI'm a mean go getterI don't know whyI don't know whyAnymoreOh noCum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe'll get wild, wild, wildWild, wild, wildCum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe'll get wild, wild, wildBaby!Come on, (come on) feel itGirls rock your boys (come on, rock it!)We'll get wild, wild, wildWe're gonna get wild! (wild, wild, wild)We're gonna get rocked tonight (cum on feel the noize)Rock it tonight (girls rock your boys)We'll get wild, wild, wildOH YEAH!!Ah, ah, ah (woooo)Ah, ah, ahCum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe'll get wild, wild, wildAh, ah, ahAh, ah, ah Cum onfeelthenoizeGirls rock yourboysWe'llgetwild, wild, wildWild, wild, wildSoyouthink I got an evil mindI tellyouhoneyIdon'tknowwhyIdon'tknowwhySoyouthinkmysingin's out of timeItmakesmemoneyI don'tknowwhyIdon'tknowwhyAnymoreOh noSo Cum onfeelthenoizeGirls rock yourboysWe'llgetwild, wild, wildWild, wild, wild Cum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe'll get wild, wild, wildBaby!So you say I got a funny faceI got no worriesAnd I don't know whyI don't know whyOh I gotta sing with some disgraceI'm in no hurryAnd I don't know whyI don't know whyAnymoreNo no noCum on feel the noizeGirls rock your boysWe'll get wild, wild, wildWild, wild, wild

9. The very last, 6th video sequel • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqN1JOC5cYQ • What opportunity was provided by MTV, esp. in comparison with FM radio? • What scandal has Boy George caused in America? • What was a very important difference between the aspirations of the punks and the more recent British popstars in the 1980s? • How did the Brits affect mainstream American rock? • What was the „end to the age of empire” in this context? • What was grunge?

10. Amazing variety • Osibissa – naughty Hungarians: Oszi f…a együttes • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5W40iHO_Q&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9ChtOkEO-yUvv24xeDuHXvi • Santana • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gwb6IYoao4&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AL1i0trTQ6J1MDu-GZNjRU • Weather report: • Apple harvest 1981? „Vödör Riport együttes” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o

11. „Coda”: Last, posthumous Led Zep album • Who got left out: • the Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, the Police, ZZtop, the Rush, Fleetwood Mac and more of the solo albums of members of bands we reviewed. • Owner of Stageshop (Maize/Méz) estimated I should have been able to cover about 300 performers! Impossible! • http://www.youtube.com/embed/k_J4Xcbx_i8?feature=player_embedded • Fleetwood Mack sounding more American • Wings, Title of the song? • Musicians who died too young • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxoYqJDhxoY&feature=related

12. Homework • Complete work left undone in class: • Listen to selection Afro rock, Latin rock and Jazz rock. • Read encyclopaedia excerpts (the Clash, Roxy, Slade, Osibisa, Santana, Weather Report). • Watch last BBC sequel. Questions attached.