No Go Go
There’s no shame in liking The Go-Go’s. After all Beauty And The Beat and Vacation are pretty good albums. I don’t know whether We Got The Meat (an all-male Go-Go’s cover band) are really doing this out of a genuine regard for the band or tongue-in-cheek irony. I hope it’s genuine.
On a related note, Momus has an interesting take on the recent glut of bands who seem hung up on the past and really tears a strip into such lightweights as The Libertines and The Darkness. I’m all for camp and kitsch but there’s a very thin line dividing The Darkness from say…..Hedwig & The Angry Inch.
Few people are in a position to be critical of other musicians. Momus is one of them as his songwriting has few peers. It’s nice to see him rant especially where it’s deserved. Here he is on The Libertine’s song Don’t Look Back Into The Sun.
Dig through layer on layer of lazy, half-digested, half-understood references (Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, Bob Dylan’s ‘don’t look back’, David Bowie’s ‘Look Back in Anger’, the play of the same name by John Osborne, ‘Black Hole Sun’ by Soundgarden… who knows, and who really cares?) and you might find the core of this half-assed song — the vague and veiled heroin reference in ‘taste for it’ and ‘never let you go’. Just like some tedious old junky (or, even worse, an ‘air junky’ just going through the motions in ironic-moronic-reverent mode), rock music prefers to stay in its bedroom listening to old records than go out and join the dots of all the interesting, funny, trivial or important stuff going on in the world.