Sex Pistols reinterpreted
I heard a great interview this morning on WUSB (90.1 Stony Brook, NY - wusb.fm) on the Cheap Thrills show with Timothy Sellers of Artichoke, The Band. It was a great interview and Timothy is a really interesting (or perhaps a more apt description might be ‘interested’) guy, but the really cool part is that his latest album is a reinterpretation of the classic 1977 Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bullocks. What’s great about it is that the ‘wretched sentiment’ (as Rosanne described it) of most of that album is presented in a totally un-offensive way, a purposeful contrast according to Tim. Investigating Artichoke a bit more you’ll find Tim’s previous album, “26 Scientists, Volume One Anning-Malthus” which seems equally interesting because each song is about a different famous scientist!
Comment posted on 3-8-2007
Cool as hell! Sounds way more interesting and musically competent than the original album.
After cutting my teeth on the original it lost its novelty and faded into obscurity. After the movie “Sid and Nancy” came out and I saw all these people glorifying Sid as some kind of a punk rock hero I really started to think these guys sucked. Jon Matlock wrote the songs but wasn’t in the band by the time this came out. Sid was a waste of life and if anything cultivated the stereotypical “stupid punker.” Johnny Rotten made a career out of openly exploiting his own audience, biting the hand etc. That I thought was clever, but it made you feel kinda dumb when you were the one slapping down greenbacks for a PIL album.
Even still, it is a classic.