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peterbirksBy pure chance, I found myself watching Top of the Pops last night. From this I now know that The Jam's Snap! is at number eight in the album charts. Now, I'm not sure what praise one should give to an album chart that has Jack Johnson at number 1 and James Blount not far behind him, but that's besides the point. The interesting thing was that one of the presenters (a female aged about 12, I think) called him "The Modfather".
Well, it's a decent pun, so why not? Except, of course, people of our age remember that Mr Weller was part of, if anything, the Mod revival, a good 14 years after the birth of the Mod movement. None of this is surprising. For people of different ages, different periods of time have different levels of significance. For me, the musical developments of the 1990s are mainly an irrelevant blur (I remember the Oasis-Blur battle of 1995, but nothing else seemed to change all that much). For someone currently aged 23 or thereabouts, I guess that the 1990s can be remembered year by year.
That same person will see 1980 (the year that Quadrophenia was released?) as "a bit before I was born" and 1963 as "quite a bit before I was born". Mod revival, Original mod, whatever.
There's nothing to resent here. Although I am aware that 1950 was very different from 1940 (despite the absence of bananas in both years) I couldn't really tell you how musical styles developed over that decade. It's inevitable that periods which we experience in our youth are delineated more precisely than those before we were born or after we don't really care any more.
But, who would be the Modfather? The Who? Hard to say, really. But, well, bliss was it then to be alive.
Well, it's a decent pun, so why not? Except, of course, people of our age remember that Mr Weller was part of, if anything, the Mod revival, a good 14 years after the birth of the Mod movement. None of this is surprising. For people of different ages, different periods of time have different levels of significance. For me, the musical developments of the 1990s are mainly an irrelevant blur (I remember the Oasis-Blur battle of 1995, but nothing else seemed to change all that much). For someone currently aged 23 or thereabouts, I guess that the 1990s can be remembered year by year.
That same person will see 1980 (the year that Quadrophenia was released?) as "a bit before I was born" and 1963 as "quite a bit before I was born". Mod revival, Original mod, whatever.
There's nothing to resent here. Although I am aware that 1950 was very different from 1940 (despite the absence of bananas in both years) I couldn't really tell you how musical styles developed over that decade. It's inevitable that periods which we experience in our youth are delineated more precisely than those before we were born or after we don't really care any more.
But, who would be the Modfather? The Who? Hard to say, really. But, well, bliss was it then to be alive.
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Date: 2006-03-01 06:11 am (UTC)"James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974)".
I rest my case. (Unless, of course, this is all an urban myth, in which case, I apologise to Mr Blunt...)
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:50 am (UTC)Give up. Some obscure Wodehouse character?
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