[kj] Damned Damned Damned

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 3 16:54:05 EST 2007


melinda grant wrote:

> melinda ps b 4 anyone objects,yep,the buzzcocks, musically are nothing

> but brilliant,its just those lyrics ;-/

>


There's an argument afoot that The Buzzcocks' "You Tear Me Up" off their
first LP was the first d-beat song; the first song to use the beat
popularized by hardcore in the 80s, esp. UK82 bands like Discharge,
after whom the d-beat (discharge-beat) is named. It's one of those
arguments, like whether Middle Class, Bad Brains, etc., were the 1st
hardcore band, that never gets solved, and which all the cool people
think is dumb, but which audiophiles obsess over nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-beat

-Oliver


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