tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552611225113381497.post8560866609249222357..comments2023-09-06T02:38:57.320-07:00Comments on Music Sounds Better With Two: One Side vs. the Other: Slade: "Look Wot You Dun"Lenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04912525192415808946noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552611225113381497.post-69072738743019850822015-09-06T21:21:54.219-07:002015-09-06T21:21:54.219-07:00Perhaps I'd have liked Oasis a bit more, as a ...Perhaps I'd have liked Oasis a bit more, as a teenager, had I not felt the same way - that the equivalent world (such as it still was, ravaged by Thatcherism and, beneath a misleading facade, making the final Faustian pact) wasn't really mine. This lack of atavistic feeling I have - other than for an ideal of "the working class" represented by, say, Bugzy Malone, which I don't have to see in the flesh every day - is one I've gone into at greater length in my "The Cat Crept In" comment, and more explicitly on Facebook after Cilla Black died, but whatever I can or can't feel, the class element is essential to Slade's narrative because their ascent was, of course, a period when the ruling class felt genuinely afraid and frightened, quite possibly more than at any other time in British history.<br /><br />At the same time, they were also not unconnected to the forces which would distract the working class (and which the bourgeois Left would never forgive for it); Wikipedia mentions that they ran a competition with The Sun. So it's all about multiple forces competing for their class loyalties, with the eventual victors initially being quite marginal. But this song is the sound of the lights going off, without question, and in the process the door slamming on the mid-1960s' ideal of classless pop.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552611225113381497.post-30825495319993743632012-09-11T15:20:32.043-07:002012-09-11T15:20:32.043-07:00Interesting perspective Lena ; Slade were my lea...Interesting perspective Lena ; Slade were my least favourite of the glam acts ( at 8 years old ) and I think it was because I too found them a bit scary. Perhaps the beginnings of class-consciousness, the perception that the loud, beery world around me ( we lived a bit below our means at that time ) which Slade represented well wasn't really mine.<br /><br />Of course we got our revenge for Slade's US failure by ignoring Kiss until they dropped the make-up and even then only allowing them a couple of top tenners.<br /> MikeMCSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04225624258826057505noreply@blogger.com