| Description | Tracks 1-2: David Craig talks about rock and English beat, the whole body reacts, unlike the crooners, when you react in the pit of your stomach, the appearance or lack of words in protest songs and songs in general, the importance of popular song catching our own lives - he says that some of Bob Dylan's song achieve this, 2.28 mins Track 3: He talks about fantasy and culture, 2.58 mins Track 4: He talks about Jack Dash sounding lame when he talks about economics despite being able to enthuse a crowd because he uses phrases that they know; the effects of modern technology on language and art, and song, 3.22 mins Track 5: They talk about the impact of 'primitive African rhythms' on British pop, which is expressed in modern sound, the manufactured nature of the sound, which only exists in the studio, the appearance of new dance steps, 1.37 mins Track 6: It is easier for the beat and syncopation to survive than the mental approach - he talks about Ewan MacColl's 'Dirty Old Town', they discuss Manfred Mann, 3.18 mins
Total: 16.17 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0361080 |