{"id":17263,"date":"2010-12-16T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk:80\/wordpress-3\/?p=17263"},"modified":"2010-12-16T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:21:08","slug":"i-gar-ser-bedre-ud-i-dag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/i-gar-ser-bedre-ud-i-dag\/","title":{"rendered":"Syv minutter til midnat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overskriften hentyder b\u00e5de til den predominerende koldkrigsskabte dommedagsstemning, der gennemsyrede startfirsernes ungdom, og til en alt for ukendt sang fra Liverpool, lidt l\u00e6ngere nede her. I g\u00e5r postede vi en David Bowie-top-15, U2’s Bono Vox er kommet op med p\u00e5 foranledning af Rolling Stone. Hans sidekick og musikalske kaptajn The Edge har ogs\u00e5 m\u00e5ttet i t\u00e6nkebox i samme sags \u00e6rinde, for det amerikanske\u00a0 musikmagasins seneste playlist-specialudgave. Ud af det er kommet hans personlige top-19 (!) indenfor den mest af alt tidsbestemte genre post-punk, alts\u00e5 al den meget forskellige undergrundsrock, der p\u00e5 begge sider af 1980 udsprang i alverdens musikalske retninger, efter den f\u00f8rste punkb\u00f8lge havde skyllet en ny tid ind og sat rocknroll-stopuret p\u00e5 0 igen. The Edge vil altid v\u00e6re en interessant mand at h\u00f8re p\u00e5, s\u00e5 her hans valg som indledende ord…<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Post-punk is an era that was very formative for me. I was 15 in 1976. I just caught the tail end of punk, but this was the music that made an impact on me, in the late Seventies and the early Eighties. It was a moment when the entire world of music was being turned upside down and given a good shake. It got a lot of people excited to start making music for the first time. But these records also had a galvanizing effect on people who were already in bands to reassess themselves and try something different. We were looking for new ways of using rock instruments like the guitar, but not in the blues tradition.<\/em><\/p>\n

01. “Fiction Romance” Buzzcocks, 1978 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

02. “The Light Pours Out of Me” Magazine, 1978<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

03. “A Forest” The Cure, 1980<\/strong>
\nWhen David Bowie came back from Germany with these krautrock influences, it got a lot of his U.K. fans excited. It enabled bands like these to separate themselves from rock tradition \u2014 to use the same instruments with a different perspective. You suddenly had a pop culture injected with avant-garde ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n

04. “Don’t Worry About the Government” Talking Heads, 1977<\/strong>
\nOne of their favorite artists was James Brown. The funk element was important for them. I listened to this album nonstop as I was doing my high school graduation exams. I listened to it a hundred times in those few months.
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\n05. “Into the Valley” The Skids, 1979 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

06. “Party Fears Two” The Associates, 1982<\/strong>
\nThese Scottish bands were happening creatively at the time we made our first album. The bagpipes summed up Stuart Adamson’s guitar style in the Skids. Drones are a big part of Celtic- music tradition. When you attempt to create something unique to your world, you inevitably draw on what’s around you. And it seemed like everybody was adopting outlandish singing styles. Billy Mackenzie of the Associates took it as far as it could possibly go.<\/em><\/p>\n

07. “She’s Lost Control” Joy Division, 1979<\/strong>
\nThey had a huge impact on us. We were lucky to use their producer, Martin Hannett, on our single “11 O’Clock Tick Tock.” We went to London for him to interview us, and we met him in the studio as Joy Division were recording “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” We had no idea what that song would become for them.<\/em><\/p>\n

08. “Ex Lion Tamer” Wire, 1977<\/strong>
\nThey were so intent on keeping it simple \u2014 down to the wire, I guess. That was one of the punk ideals they embodied: Avoid grandiosity, keep it raw.<\/em><\/p>\n

09. “Reward” The Teardrop Explodes, 1981<\/strong>
\nOne thing we didn’t catch, because we were over the sea in Dublin, was the Jamaican influence \u2014 the ska thing, the 2 Tone stuff. The brass in this record \u2014 I remember hearing it and thinking, “What a cool move.”<\/em><\/p>\n

10. “Seven Minutes to Midnight” Wah! Heat, 1980<\/strong>
\nWe always seemed to be on the same early festivals with Wah! Heat. They were one of the great talents that got away. It’s a fantastic 45, a quintessential snapshot of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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11. “Teenage Kicks” The Undertones, 1978<\/strong>
\nWe did a kids’ daytime TV show with the Undertones. It would have been for this, their first single, and for ours. And they were the same as us \u2014 snot-nosed, pimply teenagers. But they were writing great songs.<\/em><\/p>\n

12. “Public Image” Public Image Ltd., 1978<\/strong>
\nThere were great characters in that original band, like [guitarist] Keith Levene. They were reaching, in an unconscious way, for things \u2014 Can, Neu! \u2014 that caused them to produce powerful work.<\/em><\/p>\n

13. “Dream Baby Dream” Suicide, 1979<\/strong>
\nIt’s so simple. It’s machine-age, for sure. That’s why I was drawn to certain guitar-effects units. With synths and drum machines, suddenly you’re having this tension between the ultramodern and the traditional. It almost makes the song more fragile.<\/em><\/p>\n

14. “Non-Alignment Pact” Pere Ubu, 1978<\/strong>
\nMy older brother had rooms at Trinity College, and we used to listen to records there. The Modern Dance was one of those records that got played over and over, because it was so challenging. This song in particular stuck with me.<\/em><\/p>\n

15. “Elevation” Television, 1977<\/strong>
\nI’d never heard guitar like it. I was intrigued by the composition \u2014 it was so sophisticated, yet so straightforward. It was like a light going on for me. I could play pretty much everything on the album, but I was blown away by where they had taken guitar-playing, while the sound was pure and simple. I said to myself, “This is what is possible.”
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\n16. “Hong Kong Garden” Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1978<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

17. “Someone, Somewhere in Summertime” Simple Minds, 1982<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

18. “Over the Wall” Echo and the Bunnymen, 1981 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

19. “Release the Bats” The Birthday Party, 1981<\/strong>
\nThe Birthday Party were an Australian band led by Nick Cave. This was such a racket. It was like punk had gone Down Under, and the echoes of it were even more extreme than punk had been.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Overskriften hentyder b\u00e5de til den predominerende koldkrigsskabte dommedagsstemning, der gennemsyrede startfirsernes ungdom, og til en alt for ukendt sang fra Liverpool, lidt l\u00e6ngere nede her. I g\u00e5r postede vi en David Bowie-top-15, U2’s Bono Vox er kommet op med p\u00e5 foranledning af Rolling Stone. Hans sidekick og musikalske kaptajn The Edge har ogs\u00e5 m\u00e5ttet i … L\u00e6s videre Syv minutter til midnat<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n