Though I was reading all these negative things about Generation X in the music mags from the UK..and they really gave them a hard time..I really liked some of their ideas before I even heard them. For a start they were embracing the sixties in their designs and their lyrics. Pop art, Cathy McGowan, the Beatles these were the things I loved. This song was a homage to the late great TV pop show Ready Steady Go..I tried to chase the videos down for years finally finding them in a video shop in St. Kilda. Brilliant stuff.
These were the same references I was looking to in my songwriting and still do at times. A song like Roxy off our 'Dig For Plenty' album still makes reference to Kings Road Chelsea and pop art.
Picked up the album from Brashes of course. Not a brilliant album but some great singles on there. And it's lasted a lot better than many of the others from that time. And Billy Idol is the singer which does something for the record but I don't know what. Because I liked Generation X I never got over what Billy Idol became in the Eighties. Horrible! just horrible (looking back now it was quite funny plus some good singles) 1978 was when a lot of the punk bands went what some called Pop Punk. And I guess that's where the Fiction, my original band, were heading too.
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