posted 10-11-2002 03:55 AM            

(Hates):Television (not the group)/George Melly Kenny & Cash/Michael Caine/Charles Forte/Sat nights in Oxford Street/SECURICOR impotence or complacency (slogan & Robert Carr)/Parking tickts/19, Honey, Harpers, Vogue in fact all magazines that treat their readers as idiots/Bryan Ferry/Salvador Dali/A Touch of Class/BRUT for - who cares?/The Presidents Nen/Lord Carrington/The Playboy Club/Alan Brien, Anthony Handen-Guest, vic Lownes, to be avoided first thing in the morning/ANTIQUARIUS and all it stands for/Michael Roberts/POP STARS who are thick and useless/YES/Leo Sayer/David Essex/Top of the Pops/Rod Stewart oh for money and an audience/Elton John - quote in NME 25 Sept re birthday spending/West End shopping/Stirling Cooper, Jean Junction, BROWNS, Take Six, C&A,/Mars bars/Good Fun Entertainment when it's really not good or not funnyBernard Delfont/a passive audience/arse lickers/John Osborne Harry Pinter Max Bygraves Melvyn Bragg Phillip Jenkinson the ICA and its symposiums John Schelsinger Andre Previn David Frost Peter Bogdanovich/Capital Radio/The Village Trousershop (sorry bookshop)/The narrow monopoly of media causing harmless creativity to appear subversive/THE ARTS COUNCIL/Head of the Metropolitan Police/Synthetic foods/Tate &Lyle/Corrupt councillors/G.K.N./Grey skies/Dirty books that aren't all that dirty/Andy Warhol/Nigel Waymouth David Hockney & Victorianism/The Stock Exchange/Ossie Clark/The Rag Trade/E.L.P./Antiques of any sort/Housing Trusts who profit by bad housing/Bianca Jagger/Fellini/John Dunbar/J. Artur's/Tramps/Dingwalls without H/Busby Berkeley MOVIES/Sir Keith Joseph and his sensational speeches/National Front/W.H. Smith/Censorship/Chris Welsh and his lost Melody Makers/Clockwork soul routines/Bob Harris (or the Sniffling Whistler as we know him)/The job you hate but are too scared to pack in/Interview magazine - Peter Lester/rich boys dressed as poor boys/Chelita Secunda, Nicky Weymouth, June Bolan, Pauline Fordham halitosis/Pose & Anne Lambton Chinless people/Antonia Frazer/Derek Marlow/Anne Scott-James/Sydney Edwards/Christopher Logue/Osbert Lancaster/Shaw Taylor - whispering grass/The Archers/BIBAS/Old clothes old ideas and all this resting in the country business/The suburbs/The Divine Light Mission/All those fucking saints.

(Loves):Eddie Cochran/Christine Keeler/Susan 602 2509/My monster in black lights/Raw Power/Society For Cutting Up Men/RUBBER Robin Hood Ronnie Biggs BRAZIL/Jamaican Rude Boys/Bamboo Records/Coffee bars that sell whisky under the counter/THE SCENE - Ham Yard/Point Blank/Monica the girl who stole those paintings/Legal Aid - when you can get it/Pat Arrowsmith/Valerie Solanis/The Price Sisters/Melvin Jones article The Challenge To Capitalism in New Statesman 4th Oct. 74/Buenoventura Durutti The Black Hand Gang/Archie Shepp Muhammed Ali Bob Marley Jimi Hendrix Sam Cooke/Kutie Jones and his SEX PISTOLS/This country is run by a group of fascists so said Gene Vincent in a 1955 US radio interview/Seven Days with Alexander cockburn/Olympia Press/Strange Death of Liberal England - Dangerfield/Mrs Scully love goddess from Shephards Bush her house slaves and Search magazine/Labour Exchanges as our local/FREE RADIO stations/A chance to do it for more than a month without being ripped off/The Anarchist Spray Ballet/Lenny Bruce/Joe Orton/Ed Albee/Pauslovsky/Iggy Pop/John Coltrane/Spunky James Brown/Dewey Redman/KING TUBBY'S sound system/Zoot suits and dreadlocks/Kilburn & the High Roads/Four Aces Dalstron/Limbo 90 - Wolfe/Tiger Tiger - Bester/Bizarre Humphries/Woolf - Waves/Walt Whitman poet/Exupery, Simone de Beauvoir, Dashiell Hammett, Dave Cooper, Nick Kent, Carl Gayle writers/Mel Ramos painter/David Holmes the newsman/Mal Dean cartoonist/Guy Stevens records/Mal Huff funny stories/D.H./Valve amps/Art Prince/Marianne Faithfull/Jim Morrison/Alex Trocchi _ Young Adam/Patrick Heron v. The Tate Gallery and all those American businesslike painters/Lady Sinthia 908 5569/Experiment with Time - Dunne/John Lacey and his boiled book v. St Martins's Art School experiment to be seen in New York. Imagination...

[This message has been edited by molly coddle (edited 10-11-2002).]

posted 10-11-2002 12:09 PM            

Any of the ORIGINAL McLaren/Westwood t-shirts are worth a small fortune these days. If you can find them a SEX or Seditionaries tshirt will have a minimum price tag of $200. There are alot of reproductions out there, off the top of my head you can try

towerblock.co.uk

As far as England's Dreaming goes, its a pretty good read, although Savage tends to overanylize everthing. Much like Dick Hebdige in "SUBCULTURE: The Meaning Of Style", Savage puts a little too much emphasis on punk being this grand, well-planned-out cohesive MOVEMENT, when in fact it was just a bunch of bored kids trying to find a way to kill time.

(OK, that's an oversimplification of the roots of Brit punk, but it makes my point)

My other complaint about Englands Dreaming is that Savage glosses over alot of the 2nd and 3rd string bands with only a casual mention. Even The Damned don't get more than a few pages, while Gen X, Sham 69, The Vibrators et al get slightly more than their names mentioned.