The Jazz Age

[eucalyptus]

Mathew Bruccoli, Scott Fitzgerald's biographer, said to me before me died, "I'd rather eat bok choi than read Wodehouse"

This makes me the world expert on Scott Fitzgerald now, and I guess it makes Blandings Puree? lol

[LondonLogCo]

Have you been smoking "Jazz Fags" ?

[Fabricio the Guido]

Wish more people would appreciate the beauty of 'Jazz Hands'.

[woodrot]

jazz and its anaemic bedfellow, folk, should be buried in a mass grave along with prog, white reggae and nick cave

[woodrot]

and the cure

[El Pibe]

Having endured (goodness only knows why) the 'musical' offerings of Taylor Swift, Robbie Williams and One Direction the other night, there are far more deserving targets of your invective than that lot woody!!

And come on I challenge you not to waggle a hip eeeevvvver so slightly to Love Cats....

[woodrot]

TBF, Its white reggae that kills me - When I hear teh clash, especfially that leaden dirge of Sandinista! I want to end it all and move to whistable

[El Pibe]

Is it sacrilege to say The Clash don't really do it for me either, though London Calling is a good song?

[El Pibe]

Ghost Town acceptable, ticks lots of maggie hating boxes for you shurely?

[woodrot]

When I went to a " certain university" as an alternative to the dole or joining teh army, I was surrounded by white M/C kids. mostly private skool, who exemplified the clash core audience. They had no time for my Crass rubbish.THis probabaly jaundiced my views of these loveable pub rocksters.

[El Pibe]

Ha, I found it full of dance music anorak bores that has made me slightly antagonistic towards that genre, I don't recall the ones you mention but then I had to spend a lot of time there (wherever that was) developing some pretty robust wazzock filters that may have served me well.

tbh the musical influences on me from that era are slight, my flat mate was obsessed with american indie and that has pretty much stuck.

[????]

The Clash's first album is absolutely superb with just one white reggae track

The Specials were two tone based on ska, multi-racial and not white reggae

10cc, now there's a class white reggae song :)

Crass were shite, the ravey/dance collective That many of their followers morphed into were far more interesting

[steveo]

Crass: One of them works in the book shop in Sydenham