Scenes from Rip It Up and Start Again: Part Time Punks

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Critiques and manifestos

Aiming to break the trance of rock-business-as-normal and jolt the listener into awareness, postpunk teemed with metamusic critiques and mini-manifestos, songs such as the Television Personalities' "Part Time Punks" and Subway Sect's "A Different Story" that addressed punk's failure or speculated about the future.

Television Personalities - Part Time Punks - 1978

Subway Sect - A Different Story - 1978

The project

On August 15th, 2011 I started reading Simon Reynolds's book "Rip It Up And Start Again - Postpunk 1978-1984". While I read the book I will post images, audio and video links related to the music described, together with some quotes from the book itself. Hopefully, this will allow readers to have a better understanding of what is so thoroughly described in the book.
UPDATE 15/10/2011: After starting the blog with the American version of the book, I re-bought the English version and will be following this version from now on.