Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones, White Riot - The Clash, New Rose - The Damned, Teenage Kicks - The Undertones, Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks, The Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members, Babylon's Burning - The Ruts, If The Kids Are United - Sham 69, Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers, Into the Valley - The Skids, Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols.The 1970's gave us some great bands and some great songs. It was also responsible for some of the worst and led us straight into the New Wave post-punk mess but there are two songs from that decade that stand out for me as pretty much perfect.
Teenage Kicks by The Undertones is probably the best 2 minutes and 20 seconds you could ever spend in front of a music speaker but running it close is My Sharona by The Knack.
The Knack lead singer, Doug Fieger, died yesterday but the silver lining, if there is one, is that the brilliant song is due some air play today and which was greeted by the not very graceful sight of a 40 year old woman with the radio turned up to 10, playing the drums on the steering wheel and screaming 'I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind' as she drove along the motorway this evening.
Shamefully, the radio and music television guys only ever play the short version and not the full 5 minutes which contains an awesome guitar solo which rivals anything the great Slash has pulled off.
I don't know what the Knack went on to do afterwards, not very much from what i can see, and Doug Fieger fell into the drink and drugs that has destroyed so many musicians but he wrote one of the classics songs of of all time. Hard to find a song with a great riff, great drum beat and a cool bass line even if the lyrics are a bit worrying.
Instead of RIP on his headstone, it should just say 'My..my..my..my..yeah..whooo'.
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Holy Cow! I remember I grew up listening to a very old song called "My Sharona", but I never knew which was the band playing it. Thank you dude.
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