Our Generation: interviews Eddie Piller talks about becoming a MOD, and the MOD revival
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
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Our Generation, The brand new album. 75 Mod Classics, a way of life.
Our Generation Tracklist -
CD1
1 The Who - My Generation
2 The Spencer Davis Group - I'm a man
3 Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
4 The Small Faces - All or nothing
5 The Yardbirds - For your love
6 The Timebox - Beggin'
7 The Creation - Biff bang pow
8 The Sir Douglas Quintet - She's about a mover
9 The Quik Bert's - Apple crumble
10 Billy Butler - Right track
11 The Foundations - I'm Gonna Be A Rich Man
12 The Graham Bond Organisation - Long Tall Shorty
13 Les Fleurs De Lys - Circles
14 Len Barry - 123
15 Etta James - Something's got a hold of me
16 Tom Jones - Looking Out My Window
17 Isley Brothers - Twist & shout
18 Tony Clarke - The entertainer
19 The Contours - First I look at the purse
20 Diana Ross & Supremes - He's my Sunny Boy
21 Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Yeh Yeh
22 The Impressions - We’re a winner
23 The Chiffons - He's so fine
24 Tommy Tucker - Hi-Heel sneakers
25 Major lance - Um Um Um Um Um Um
CD2
1 Booker T & The MGs - Green onions
2 Dobie Gray - The In Crowd
3 Bob & Earl - Harlem shuffle
4 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
5 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack lightning
6 James Brown - Night train
7 Mel Torme - I'm comin' home
8 Marvin Gaye - Ain't that peculiar
9 Aretha Franklin - Since you've been gone
10 Otis Redding - I can't turn you loose
11 Jr Walker - Roadrunner
12 Phil Upchurch - You can't sit down Pt 1
13 The Velvelettes - Needle in a haystack
14 Stevie Wonder - Uptight
15 The Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do
16 Smokey Robinson - Going to a Go Go
17 Lulu Love - Loves To Love
18 Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
19 Mar Keys - Last night
20 Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat 65
21 The Birds - Leaving here
22 Brenda Holloway - When I’m Gone
23 Dusty Springfield - I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face
24 Shorty Long - Devil in a blue dress
25 Irma Thomas - Time is on my side
CD3
1 The Jam - A Town Called Malice
2 Secret Affair - Time for action
3 The Chords - Maybe tomorrow
4 The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy
5 Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance stance
6 The Scene - Something that you said
7 9 Below Zero - Eleven plus eleven
8 The Small Hours - Midnight to Six
9 The Prisoners - Melanie
10 The Merton Parkas - Plastic smile
11 The Specials - Too much too young
12 The Beat - Tears of a clown
13 Toots & The Maytals - 54-46 Was my number
14 Derrick Morgan - Blazing fire
15 Desmond Dekker - You can get it if you really want
16 Roland Alphonso - Phoenix City
17 Ruby & The Romantics - Our Day Will Come
18 Jamo Thomas & His Party Brothers Orchestra - I Spy (For the F.B.I.)
19 Huey Piano Smith - Don't You Just Know It
20 Manny Corchado - Pow Wow
21 Frank Wilson - Do I love you?
22 Sugar Pie Desanto - Go Go Power
23 Ramsey Lewis Trio - Wade in the water
24 The Coasters - Love potion #9
25 Small Faces - Grow Your Own
A very good interview, he was right about Punk, a lot of us were a couple of years too young and all the spitting and anarchy put us off.
The energy of the music was great though, for a long time Disco had ruled and angry young men with electric guitars had faded, The Blockheads and Dr Feelgood being the exception, they kept it going.
Then Punk arrived and youngsters could see that anyone could make simple music without all the equipment of Disco or Prog Rock.
The only think that he failed to mention that sparked the revival in the hearts of us was the film. Do I even need to mention it's name?
Quadrophenia lit the touchpaper, the rest is history.
Not to mention the plastic bing bags and saftey pins through the nose. With Eddie on that, liked a couple of Punk tunes but found a load of rebels rebelling about nothing - pretentious. However by 14 years of age I was a full on Soul boy... but when not at nighters did enjoy the 2-tone, some of the mod revival bands, Dexy's etc. Even liked Lionel Richie's 12 inch version of All Night Long as you could practise your shuffle to that :-)
Punk borrowed a lot from the mod cult. Early punks dressed in 60s clothes-particularly the jackets. Lydon was happy to dismiss Matlock’s ‘wanky mod mates’ in his book, yet admitted he ‘liked the mod energy’. He also, apparently auditioned for the role of Jimmy in Quadrophenia.
I, myself, sold original mod clothes to punks, including an original lamb’s wool boating blazer which I wish I still had (there is a photo of a young Sid Vicious wearing one).
Fact is, the mod revival was disliked by all and sundry because the music wasn’t really very good. Mods foolishly abandoned the Two Tone stuff because they felt it was Skin head music, forgetting that mods were in to Ska in the 60s.
Mod bands like the Purple Hearts, Chords , Merton Parkas etc etc were all watered down punk which sound really bad when you listen to it now.
I like the Jam and I think they’re talented, but they didn’t really represent a mod sound- to me any way.
Musically, Britpop was much closer to it, I think
I was a mod from 79 to 83 and agree with you about the bands you mention, i thought they were poor versions of the Jam. But i loved Two Tone, the problem was it was short lived and i found myself being just a Jam fan.I then started listening to the Who and the Small Faces and then discovered Soul music and that was it then a life long passion for black music began. Interesting stuff about you selling mod clothes to punks
flimbambo Lyndon was a wannabee pop star he’d audition for anything. Punk was the Ramones not some “shock” band created by a manager.
The one subculture where you can get away with still wearing the same haircut and clothes you had in 1980, once a mod, always a mod!
the 60s youth cultures werent really youth cultures until they were revived in the 70s. they were just a period of time and the way people dressed. when the revivals happened, it became a way of life.
Mod's remain independent.
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never mentions he dissed mod in the 90s sell out
It's funny. I've seen Eddie mention how disenchanted he got with Mod all the time. I don't think he hides it at all.
@@IanSteaman thanks ian. it was crap at the time but i am a sell out
@@eddiepiller2126 Better to be a sell out than stuck with a load of spare tickets 🤣
Wellend alert!
he copied my hair actually
He ain’t a mod too young.
Seb To me one of the things about Mod is forever moving forwards with a nod in the past Bringing it forward to get new people interested
@@jonathanhadley2555 Mod has never moved forward though. It’s been stuck in the early 60s!!
@Seb So would your take be if you weren't around in the late 50ts or early to mid 60ts then you're not a Mod!
@@jonathanhadley2555 the mod movement was early 60s. Anything before that wasn’t mod and anything after was an imitation of mod.
Seb So you cant be a Mod then! I'm Modual;-)
60s trends and punk went mainstream in the 90s and I f*king loved it
Don't act like hipsters my lads 😎🤘