Carl’s Rock Songbook #37, XTC, “Life Begins at the Hop”
by Carl Scott[ Note: by the criteria laid out in Songbook #12 , this is not a Rock song, but a rock n roll one. ] The last Songbook post raised the problem of repetition, of “new music” that is only sort of new. The first sign that recorded pop music could not remain ever-progressive in its . . . . Continue Reading »