Songbook
“V. WrightIn the early eighties, after punk had died its slow death, I found it hard to care much about white rock music very much. Some of my people – Costello, Springsteen – made a decent album every now and again, and a couple of great bands – R.E.M., the Smiths, Dexy’s Midnight Runners – emerged to help us forget Those We Had Lost. But mostly, it seemed, the pubs and clubs and record racks seemed to be filled by bands who had absorbed punk’s ramshackle amateurism and none of its point, bands... who wore long green raincoats and didn’t make jokes very often. They were po-faced in ways only the young want to be, and at twenty-four or twenty-five I was just old enough to want to sneer at their earnestness, just as at eight or nine I wanted to go to bed a little later than my sister: those age differentials are important when you’re very young.But black music was for grown-ups; soul songs were about divorces and adultery and lived lives, and it was possible to find big soul artists hitting the peak of their game: Bobby Womack, Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, Prince, Cameo, Marvin Gaye, Teena Marie (who was white, but hung out with Rick James and made albums for Motown) and the producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis all made great records in the first half of the eighties.MoreLess
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