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The art of punk posters: From the Sex Pistols to the Clash, how poster design helped spread the rebellious reputation of punk.
Musicians don’t often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. The Guardian’s Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never before.
“So stand up and be counted, shy ones. Or actually, stay right where you are: discreetly off-center, quietly contrarian, wafting your complex vibes across the room. Refuse to be noisy. Refuse to be brassy. Be bold: Be shy.”
What happens to a man who compulsively collects comics, books, records and CDs? He becomes very good at building shelves…
Come on Pilgrim offered twisted rockers and ballads, guitar-scarred and coddled, celebrating incest and animals and sex so fine (with an elevator operator). They’re charged with a sound as rewarding as scab-picking was when you were a kid. Gleefully reckless. Good nasty fun. The Pixies have the eerie depth of old souls, yet their average age of 22 explains their eagerness to offend, to aurally jar and generally rock people off their mental axis.
Reflex magazine review of Come on Pilgrim, May 1988
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity…”
