Yet more indie rock 'n' roll

[petronia]

Re-reading Nana from the beginning, to the surprise of absolutely no one... I hafta go buy the damned album so I can rip it, there's honestly no way around. It's too inextricably woven into the fabric of the series. ^^; Also I should just to keep from destroying this tape of mine, which is like a humourous time capsule artifact. (The liner paper reveals that it was lent at approximately weekly intervals continuously between 25 Jul. 1978 and 27 Oct. 1978, after which it was, ah, presumably taken out of circulation.) As it is I play it through each time both sides, out of fear at what would happen if I tried to rewind it. ^^; I think I haven't bought the CD so far purely out of a sense of puzzlement, as when pressed I call myself Not A Rock Fan (tm), let alone a punk fan. (The music. The symbolic position the original punk movement/ideals/aesthetic occupied in my childhood psyche is a whole 'nother weirdness. But I suppose it prepared me well for dealing with a shoujo mangaka's Sex Pistols obsession. ^^; An essay could be written using Nana as a prime example of how the Japanese always seem to adopt musical movements visual signifiers first, actual music second and associated ideals... distant third if at all, but this ain't my major.) Part of it is horrible confusion brought on by the fact that I learnt to identify global genres at a time when I really was Not A Rock Fan, and anything in which the guitar bits were too scratchy for me to hear a melody got filed under "punk" or "metal". So of course now I put on a Clash song or something, and the melody is right there, and I'm like "...huh?" and am actually completely incapable of telling the difference between aforementioned and, say, Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish album. Although possibly there is no difference, and you're just punk if you say so. Like art!

(It's not limited to punk. I'm bad with rock subgenres in general. This trait is good for making mixes, actually - less preconceptions - but not so good for writing clever blurbs about the mixes.)

Of course, to be perfectly clever what I need isn't "Seventeen" from off the album, but a cover thereof by someone else - it doesn't even have to be "good", as the word is only applicable to the original with a certain amount of license. ...Or I could stop before I drive myself to drink.