As part of an almost an inevitable backlash given the pre-eminence of baggy and grunge in the early part of the decade, the pendulum swung again as British youth rediscovered the ideologies of modernism. The watershed event will most likely be remembered as being Blur’s release of Modern Life Is [...]
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Modern life is Rubbish and the legacies of Ray Davies and Steve Marriott | 1993-1995
Posted by Delrond in July 16th 2007
Quadrophenia and Paul Weller with The Jam and later with the Style Council | 1979-1980
Posted by Delrond in July 15th 2007
The post-punk return to modernism of the late 1970s was mostly a fiasco, in hindsight doomed to failure as a result of its essentially derivative nature and lack of original talent. Largely energized by the first ever full-length commercial film about mods (Quadrophenia), the bandwagonesque set of bands that sprung up [...]
Mod beginnings - Italian rounded-collared shirt, short Roman jacket very tailored | 1958-1964
Posted by Delrond in July 14th 2007
The first wave of modernist youth emerged in or around London in the late 1950s. Most commentators agree on certain basic themes: mod was predominantly working-class, male-dominated, and centered on an obsessive clothes-consciousness which involved a fascination with American and Continental styles. The Dean in Colin Macinnes’ Absolute [...]
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