Unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour
Two early songs from Adam and the Ants today from before it all got rather silly.
Written by him alone with no contribution from Marco Pirroni who has a hand in most of the camper numbers.
Dirk are you still wearing White Sox?
If so, don't worry - ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Awesome tunes. Adam is touring next year and I seriously flirted with the idea of going to see him. Then I saw the ticket prices and decided against it...
ReplyDeleteOddly, his last alsbum had some rather decent tunes on it and even included a couple of songs that were originally written and demoed from this early era.
Ah, I still like these, nice choices CC! I was fortunate enough to see Adam & The Ants on the Young Parisians tour in March 1979, when they were of course a very different kettle of fish to their later incarnation and were truly still what you might call art punk, playing songs that were undoubtedly controversial, Adam a million miles from the pop prince for prepubescents that he later became. I guess he was just far too good looking!
ReplyDeleteI still enjoy Dirk Wears White Sox from time to time and have a soft spot for him - but I never ever ever want to have to sit through the video for Stand and Deliver again!
True Story coming up: back when Cassandra Complex from Leeds moved to Aachen in the late 80's, I used to 'hang around' with them fairly frequently. And on occasion I indeed wore white socks, which made Rodney Orpheus and Andy Booth shout at me at the top of their lungs all through the Pub we were in: "DIRK WEARS WHITE SOX!!" again and again ... after that dreadful event I NEVER wore white socks again for the rest of me life! Which reminds me to listen to the album again, something I haven't done since then as well, I'm afraid ...
ReplyDeleteSorry to make you relive that trauma Dirk!
DeleteLove this piece of writing....bettered only by Dirk's very funny recollection!
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone should begrudge Adam for making the seamless transition to pop idol after what Malky Mac did to him in taking away his band. Great songs I hadn't thought about in years