Great video for the track.. fun crazy stuff! I used to know Anna from hanging out in Rough Trade when I should have been in school ;-) and saw the Raincoats a few times back when this first came out. It's stayed one of my favourite 45's from that period.
Brilliant video thanks to Gina Birch... they were jewels indeed: joyful unexpected and free.. music like a rizoma, a knitwear instead of a uselesss monument... fully enjoyable now like 30 years ago ....
It makes no difference Night or day No one teaches you how to live Cups of tea are a clock A clock, a clock, a clock Cups of tea are a clock A clock, a clock, a clock The times I forgot but never forgot I don't know the books that you read But you don't say That love never externalizes You're rereading a book To feel reassured By the life of your favorite hero But don't worry, honey don't worry This is just a fairytale Happening in the supermarket The roots of your thoughts They're essentially polaroidal When you look at my picture Don't say it's your mirror Don't say we're both paranoid Tell me, make me glad Don't ask me anything I'm no secret agent Got no colors to give to you But don't worry, honey don't worry This is just a fairytale Happening in the supermarket
It reminds me "Seventeen" by the Sex Pistols (1977). I think this one was released in 1979. Just a thought... Oh, and does anybody have "No one's little girl" by the Raincoats? Truly fantastic. Please, someone, upload it!
I think the music overlaps this very well. It gives it a purely awesome raw feel. I admit, it did take a few listens to become totally enchanted by their stuff, but I am very happy that I did. *****! You guys should not be too harsh on xxxsamzmexx. She is young and misguided - spoon fed her generic pop artists, sadly. She will never snap out of the vicious cycle.
@theraincoats the origin of the riot girls began from here, i believe. altho how they and cortney love sound quite different, there must be a similar kind of spirit
Kids, kids, kids... this is The Raincoats. This is proto-proto-proto Riot Grrrl. This is the mama of Riot Grrrl. Like comparing the Stooges to Nirvana, I suppose... eh, although they may owe their resurgence to a Kurt Cobain liner note.
Punk was intended for untalented people - that was the point! People who couldn't sing or play, but could produce something new, interesting, exciting and fun.
That's not really fair, there's a lot of great music around now. Most of the bands you listed weren't really that popular at the creative peaks of their careers, just like most great music today is still somewhat underground. The ones you listed were great bands though, of course.
Sloppy British chick bands from the 70s will be forever at the top of the punk rock list. They were willing to SPIT in the faces of the industry hegemony. LONG LIVE POLY STYRENE 😅😢😅😢😅😢🎉🎉🎉🎉
riot grrrlll is L7, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, etc . all early 90s .... what are people talking about.... this post punk but hey i'll be listening to television while you all duke it out
samz, I have to say, I think you're a bit mixed up. This track may not make a direct and abstract statement about existence, but it is the direct result of a moment which happened in a place: it's close to the source. This is a big part of the reason why people will keep listening to this song.
The joy of music fandom is its subjectivity. For example, to me, Metallica doesn't know how to play its instruments, as it does not produce any sound that moves my heart or mind. This, on the other hand, is the sound of music that moves ME. I have no idea who Ashley or Zac Efron are, in any case, so have no view on those names... ;)
@Stuie1973 L7 had absolutely NOTHING to do with the riot girl scene. Like 7 Year Bitch they were nice people, very guy-friendly and distanced themselves from that horrible pretentious fad.
+Obsidian BlackBird McKnight So, to recap...polygamy (which is marrying more than one person) is illegal. That was the basis of my original statement...
None of those disney stars even play instruments. If any one of them picked up a guitar they wouldn't even be able to get half the sound out of it the Raincoats could.
Rite.... I'm not sure if that last part was a compliment or not.I'm not into the whole pop artist thing i am into deeper and more meaningful music, stuff like lostprophets, trivium, korn etc. Pop music is cheesy and it's not something i would listen to i would rather have my ears bleed.
Erm... rite i'm actually quite a good person i just don't lyk this band the only reason i looked them up is bcoz i heard about them in 10 things i hate about you it's not my fault that there pish is it?
Ashley Tisdale has more of a voice than this pish and was that disney music artist lover meant to be an insult? Please that was pathetic i'm proud to be a fan of people like Ashley, Zac Efron and Miley Cyrus etc. It's better than listening to bands that don't know how to play their instruments.
I do believe that I very regrettably, once, had the actual misfortune of seeing The Raincoats perform live, in Lowestoft, sometime during one the summer months in 1980. They sounded so bad and awful that I came to the conclusion that either these punkettes could not either play their instruments, nor properly tune them up.
If u don't class Korn as deep u cant say that this stuff is. This stuff is cheap crap that no proper human being would class as real music. U guys have been brainwashed into listening to stuff like this.
Is this noise or is this music ? i can do better than this ...without bein' a guitar expert... this music just give me the envy to let down rock n roll and start listening to classical music... later the Raincoats were better...at least it's my opinion ... sometimes i regret that punk landed so brutally in the UK musical landscape... most of those punk bands were untalented... it was just disorderly teenage pulsions...
