Re: "Pop" / RE: (TV) Re: Tom as a punk

[Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk>]

On 01/05/2011 18:09, Leo Casey wrote:
> I'll see if I can find one of these "pop declarations" and post it.
Alternative music doesn't have to be "alternative" [mock wincing facial 
gesture]. I mean, we COULD be weird and avant-garde if we wanted, but 
really, at our core is a pop band.
Billy Ficca, Creem 1993

  As peculiar as it sounds, I've always thought that we were a pop 
band. You know, I always thought Marquee Moon was a bunch of cool 
singles. And then I'd realize, Christ, this song is ten minutes long 
with two guitar solos.
Tom Verlaine, Select Sept 1992

 I am not a punk rocker. You've got it mixed up. Nobody is a punk 
rocker. Punk rock is just a label. It wasn't part of our ethics. The 
whole idea was that we were trying awfully hard to become good at our 
instruments. What you're talking about is the "anybody can be in a band, 
you don't have to know how to play your instrument" mentality, which is 
really an English idea. It's a social, political rebellion. It had 
nothing to do with Americans.
Richard Lloyd, Interview on thrustCHAT (2003?)

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