Sex, Drugs, & Rock'n'Ro

[Joe Allonby]

"Broken Doll", "Tonight is My Night", "Let's Go to the Pictures", "Take the
Cash", "Semaphore Signals", "Pop Song" (Hells's bells, buckets of blood, you
got me reaching for my tranquillizers), "Too Busy", all of these are
tremendous pop songs with balls. They're the kinda thing that California pop
punk bands like the Parasites and later on Green Day took off from. In Green
Day's case, to much greater commercial success but without that certain
charming innocence.

Didn't know about the book.

Thanks.
Joe

On 8/23/06, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> He was a great performer and a good writer.. interesting book too:
>
> http://www.thedonotpress.com/titles/dysfunctionalsuccess.html
>
> "Reconnez Cherie" and "I Wish It Would Rain" were at least as good as
> "Whole Wide World"
>
> On 8/23/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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".
>
>
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