Carl’s Rock Songbook #41: The Cramps, “Goo-Goo Muck”

by Carl Scott

The last Songbook post could have been titled What Martha Bayles Has to Learn from Retro Rock n’ Roll. This post could be titled What Retro Rock n’ Roll Has to Learn from Martha Bayles. The basic lesson: the primitivist aesthetic cultivated by many in the retro scenes, and particularly in . . . . Continue Reading »

18 Mar 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #38: The Gravedigger V, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”

by Carl Scott

[Note: by the criteria laid out in Songbook #12 , this is not a Rock song, but a rock n’ roll one.] Songbook #37 considered the New-Wave-cloaked revival of earlier rock and roll styles burbling amid the early 80s pop charts, but now it’s time to go down to the underground as X-Ray Specs . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2012