Thomas Scott (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thomascott) wrote,@ 2009-04-08 21:24:00 |
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Pre-celeb Lydon.
After starring in 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and doing the narration for a hilariously bad, Boys-Own -type documentary called 'Bugs' for Murdochvision, John Lydon carries about as much cultural weight as Kerry Katona.
Hard to now imagine he was once a co-conspirator in avant-garde-pop, I know this song is as much a product of Keith Levine's sonic experimentalism and Jah Wobble's musical input but Lydon's stream-of-consciousness vocals are intrinsic to the song's sense of cold, dislocated, almost Beckettian narration.
One of my favourite pop songs from the time and unquestionably my favourite Old Grey Whistle Test performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch
After starring in 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and doing the narration for a hilariously bad, Boys-Own -type documentary called 'Bugs' for Murdochvision, John Lydon carries about as much cultural weight as Kerry Katona.
Hard to now imagine he was once a co-conspirator in avant-garde-pop, I know this song is as much a product of Keith Levine's sonic experimentalism and Jah Wobble's musical input but Lydon's stream-of-consciousness vocals are intrinsic to the song's sense of cold, dislocated, almost Beckettian narration.
One of my favourite pop songs from the time and unquestionably my favourite Old Grey Whistle Test performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch
