Television Personalities -- "This Angry Silence"
There's the attitude -- the irreverence and the vicious rock minimalism -- of punk here, but the real antecedents of this song might be The Kinks and The Who. At the same time, this song is in line with what we now call post-punk, pushing toward a new way of understanding music. Each movement that comes along in the history of popular music is a kind of music criticism, making statements about how to interpret and reinterpret the music of those who came before you, making statements about what to value in what we listen to. By reasserting some long neglected rock basics here, Television Personalities was doing something new.
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