Comments on: Che Guevara and Debussy to a Disco Beat

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:35:48 +0000

The previous comment is a pingback from KaM’s blog where he’s done a very detailed essay on the Boys.

It’s very good. (Not least because he pulls out a quote from here with the words “Rob Morris says it perfectly” which fair made my day.)

In case you missed it, the link is http://royalarbor.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/pop-art/ and I’ll try and find a better way of displaying pingbacks going forward.

By: Pop Art « KaM

Pop Art « KaM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:18:24 +0000

[...] (Fallen-Angel / Rob Morris) [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:51:37 +0000

Well done you!

(Actually I don’t for one moment think your viewpoint has been changed at all. But at least we’ve now had a virtual dialogue. And then we can argue in person and give up at a later date.)

But the video is still stunning. I mean… dozens of Chris Lowes. What’s not to love?

By: pandemonia

pandemonia — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:28:00 +0000

Well I’ve been told!

Now I have a different viewpoint…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:11:00 +0000

Er… right. But the point of the Pet’s version is that it’s been tweaked to be more… hopeless. They explicitly intended it to be about a Utopia which can’t be realised (the lyrics are different and there’s an additional middle bit to that effect) so the march towards capitalism as an ideal in the video is also to be taken as equally misguided.

I believe the parallel came up because the chord progression sounds vaguely like the Soviet Anthem. (As well as being almost identical to that in Pachabel’s Canon in D.)

And anyway, the video’s stunning, so ner.

By: pandemonia

pandemonia — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:11:48 +0000

I should listen to more of it. I always enjoyed the earlier stuff,

Go West got on my tits. Mainly due to the turning of a deliberate gay anthem into an East meets West join the march of Capitalism video. Which is not what it’s about.