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Eater!
You gotta fucking
love’em….you gotta hate them the lucky bastards! Mark P called them
‘totally devoid of musical ideas’.
John Savage, journalist of the time, summed them up as ‘Youth by itself is not enough'.
What do they know? Eater
called Johnny Rotten ‘too old’. That’s about right… Average age 16,
chicks, rock’n’roll, part of the greatest musical era ever, and a fistful
of songs to stand the test of punk time. Yeah!, Roxy club, punkettes,
sweaty tours and a whole heap of cool youth rebellion while thinking of
the USA.
You want punk? Check these boys
out...this ain’t no sanitized
boy band...bands like that don’t sing ‘Get Raped’ or talk about having ‘No
Brains’. This is the real thing. Real vintage punk. No Seditionaries
posing
in expensive
threads. Just off the streets, straight outta school, punk rock’n’roll in
its rawest form.
They could have been contenders
or could they?…What if Eater had been signed to a major? They had the
songs, look and ability to develop...so many ifs and maybes but at the end
of the day one fact remains: They left behind a string of classic punk
singles and a classic punk album. Their place in history is confirmed and
this is it!
Paul@Punk77 Aug 2004 |
