Bangles to banjos, witches to Yapoos, Partisans to Porcupine Tree, RR’s Abahachi ranges through a rich history of songs picked out from last week’s topic
Confusion is the defining sentiment of our age. In modernity, the past ceases to be any guide to the quicksand of the present, and the future can be imagined only as ceaseless instability and uncertainty, in which real change is deemed impossible. Everything solid evaporates, everything seems pregnant with its contrary. It’s never in the newspapers, note Silver Apples. Confusion, revolution, peaceful solution. Confusion. And banjos.
I just don’t know what to do with myself. Any number of dazed and confused rock stars complain about the inexplicable refusal of women to sleep with them, but as relationships and gender roles become liquid, the rest of us also face ever more confusion and misunderstanding. The Bangles show a decent man bewildered by a capricious archetype of the manic pixie dream girl, while Patty Russell is bewitched but bothered by the emotions aroused by her man, uncertain whether she’s crying because she’s happy or sad. In between them, the poet laureate of modern alienation, John Foxx, wanders through a mirror maze of fragmented, contradictory relationships, married to someone he doesn’t recognise.
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