"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. welcome to the drivel blog of "music detractor, Simon Reynolds"
Monday, April 9, 2018
blockhead(s)
be Stiff? - both were (at least for a moment, in Devo's case)
i feel a musical resemblance here:
well i have mooted a bunch of times now that Blockheads = best Brit groove band since the Stones
and in a sense Devo are perhaps the greatest antigroove band of all time... but to antigroove actually requires being able to groove in the first place (no surprise in a way that Casale was schooled in blues of every kind)
and that one just purely rocks immensely
rearranging the grammar of rock with a radical stringency as surely as Gang of Four or Television
the full EP on which "Blockhead" (Devo's) first appeared
well you learn something everyday, i did not know that EP even existed
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