I've had a leisurely week - it's warm & unbearably humid in Lexington so, except for the requisite evening dog walks, I've been inside - so I've had a chance to listen to entire albums by the subjects of this installment of the "indiepop a to z" series. It's been fun - it's such a diverse & interesting genre of music, one that for the most part is more obscure now than even when it was the opposite of punk in the mid-1980s.
Well, maybe not the opposite of punk - the do-it-your-own-damn-self aesthetic was there. Among other things. I'm not in the mood to theorize right now - & anyway, I'm reading Jon Savage's Sex Pistols book right now, so it's probably muddling up my thinking.
I'm in the letter J at this point, & it's the tenth letter of the alphabet. If it takes forty-five shows to make it to J, where will I be at the twentieth letter of the alphabet (the letter T, right)? & if I only do three of these shows a year, it'll happen well over a decade from now. Will there even be radio then? Will I even be alive?
Oh well. Keep going, keep going. The letter J. Lots of good stuff. I'll show you on Friday!
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