Sex, Drugs, & Rock'n'Ro

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 14:11:59 CDT 2006


I always thought Wreckless Eric was under-rated. Good, punchy guitar rock
with great song structure and lyrics. All that anybody knows is "I'd Go the
Whole Wide World".

On 8/23/06, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think contextual irony came into it..  have you heard his
> pre-Blockheads group, Kilburn & the High Roads?  Music Hall was the
> key description imo.  As for disco - some of the band came from the
> funky end of pub-rock, and Chas Jankel made a couple of more or less
> full on disco records later on
>
> best
>
> James
> (saw the first Stiff tour - Dury, Costello, Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe,
> Larry Wallis)
>
>
> On 8/23/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I always thought that ID&TBs sounded ironic in the context of all that
> Stiff
> > Records stuff. We can't exactly ask him since he passed on awhile back.
> --
> http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://www.pop.nu/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjamesk/
> http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
>
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