Heart of a Punk Soul of a Rasta

Hugh Cornwell has a new LP in the pipeline entitled "Totem & Taboo". Head over to HERE to find out for yourself and get yourself this free download of "Bad Vibrations" (demo).

We all know Hugh Cornwell can write Black songs, and we know Hugh Cornwell can write White songs. Well here he takes the White song "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys and paints it Black. Hugh seems to be in the groove here, and at his asinine best. Doing what he did so well on "Hoover Dam" - keeping it salient and to the point (isn't that that the same thing). Nothing much to do with this demo then, other than get it mastered and shoved on a piece of plastic. Top stuff.

While your listening here's an interview with Hugh from '79. If nothing else it proves one thing - never talk to music journalists (spit). Especially when they call themself a writer. Give me a break mate - Tolstoy was a writer - if you write like a hack, talk like a hack, act like a hack and smell like a hack - YOU'RE A F**KIN HACK! "I've got a pen in my pocket, Does that make me a writer, Standing on the mountain, Doesn't make me no higher, Putting on gloves, Don't make you a fighter, And all the study in the world, Doesn't make it science". Thanks Paul.

Interviews still worth a read all the same, tee he.