V.A. God Damn The Bloody White Socks (Mod Revival 77/82) Compiled by 60T's Soul Searcher

Pues recientemente he publicado en mi otro blog las "100 Mod Masterpieces", realizado por el amigo 6T's Soul Searcher, con una gran aceptación por parte de los visitantes, y así he ido publicando aquí varias compilaciones suyas para entender el fenómeno mod, cosa que a muchos nos parecía demasiado ambiguo.

Así tuvimos "The Windrush Generation" sobre la oleada de jamaicanos que llegaron a Gran Bretaña en la segunda mitad de los años sesenta, y que tendría gran influencia en la música mod. También tuvimos "Rockin' Blues", ahondando en las raíces del r´n´b que tanto fascinó a los mods.

Así, que para cerrar el círculo era casi obligada una revisión del fenómeno "revival" que tuvo lugar en GB a final de los setenta, principios de los ochenta, coincidiendo con  el boom del punk y la new wave, así que aquí encontraremos música de esos estilos, pero con sabor añejo, sonidos muy potentes y guitarreros en general, y para definirlo no se me ocurre nada mejor que el título de una de las canciones "Johnny B. Rotten", que muestra claramente el nexo entre el pasado y su presente.

Por cierto el título alude a que presumiblemente todos los mods llevaban calcetines blancos.

Pero bueno,os dejo ya con las palabras de "6T's Soul Searcher" que nos hará una pequeña puesta en escena:

"The Mod  Revival Came And Went Quickly As Punk"

The Mod Revival started in UK in 1977 with the Jam being the main band,The Jolt were pretty influential in kicking it off too. It was a result of Punk,the seeds sown in 76/77 produced a whole number of possibilities as kids learned they could just get up and do their thing.Many of these people were in Punk and New Wave bands but got into the Mod as a way of being different at the time and because of a love for The Jam,Secret Affair,The Lambrettas,Merton Parkas,The Chords and many others and the renewed interest in 60's Mod groups at the time.Like most young kids that lived their teenage years at the tail of the '70's,you were either a Punk,a Skinhead or a Mod,a very British movement.By 1978 people began dressing Mod.The look was neat,functional and compelling to gaze at,basically Fred Perry or button down shirts,three buttons jacket and a pair of straight Levi's,you got to remember at that time,it was very difficult buy straight bottomed Jeans,you could acknowledge people by the dress they wearing. . 

With Quadrophenia things changed completely,in some ways it was a good thing,in some ways it was a bad thing. The most famous bands signed to the major labels made their three singles,split up and that was it... After the movie came out,a lot of people stopped being Mods,because it was really uncool and become mainstream. A lot of early '77-'78 Mods didn't like that,and by the end'1980 a lot of bands from the first wave ('79) had split up,because the scene was over populated .In Milan,the city where I lived, at the end of the 70's we were no more than ten Mods and we knew little about the Mod phenomenon and that little was only for the records of the early Who and the Small Faces,the first two albums and a few singles by The Jam (bought by a friend on study holiday in London). It was certainly the film Quadrophenia that made us understand what Mod was beyond the music.

PS: I have not included the most "famous" bands,privileging bands that at that time recorded '4

Ciao 

6T's Soul Searcher  

CD 1

1  THE JOLT  You're Cold (1977)  

2  THE MONKS  Johnny B. Rotten (1979)  

3  FACE  Streetwalk (1980)  

4  THE LEEPERS  Paint A Day (1979)  

5  THE HEARTBEATS  Go! (1981)  

6  THE KILLERMETERS  SS225 (1980)  

7  THE SAME  Wild About You (1980)  

8  THE REACTION  I Can't Resist (1978)  

9  THE CLERKS  No Good For Me (1979)  

10  THE STOAT  Office Girl (1977)  

11  THE STRANGEWAYS  All The Sound Of The Fear (1979)  

12  THE TIMES  Red With Purple Flashes (1981)  

13  STA PREST  Schooldays (1980)  

14  THE PURPLE HEARTS  Million Like Us (1979)  

15  THE STRIKE  Teenage Rebel (1980)  

16  BACK TO ZERO  Your Side Of Heaven (1979)  

CD 2

1  THE FIRST STEP  The Beat Is Back (1979)

2  THE EXITS  Cheam (1978)

3  THE CIGARETTES  All We Want Is Your Money (1979)

4  TERRY TONIK  Smashed And Blokd (1979)

5  SQUIRE  Get Ready To Go (1978)

6  ELITES  Career Girls (1978)

7  FAST CARS  The Kids Just Wanna Dance (1979)

8  THE SEMA  Do You Know Your Friends (1979)

9  SMALL WORLD  Love Is Dead (1982)

10  THE TEENBEATS  STRENGHT OF THE NATION (1979)

11  THE CIRCLES  Opening Up (1979)

12  DEAD BEATS  Choose You (1980)

13  THE AMBER SQUAD  Can We Go Dancing (1980)

14  THE SCENE  I've Had Enough (1980)

15  THE CROOKS  Modern Boys (1979)

16  LONG TALL SHORTY  1970's Boy (1979)

Os dejo también las canciones de muestra, pura electricidad:

THE MONKS  Johnny B. Rotten (1979) 

THE CLERKS  No Good For Me (1979)

THE CROOKS  Modern Boys (1979)

Hasta aquí esta nueva aventura, que seguro no os deja indiferentes. Agradecer al amigo 6T's Soul Searcher  este magnífico regalo y nos vemos en la próxima