technology and soulful vocalists, donna summer being the ultimate embodiment, and they make some of the biggest records of all time. i love to love you baby love to love you baby was four minutes of singing, 14 minutes of a lot of not singing. and i always wondered for the life of me, like, was moroder just like in the booth like more passion, more ? i actually, i threw everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off, made sure that the tape is running, and i said, okay, let s do it. and i think she did it in ten minutes.
if there was jobs, maybe we d be singing about love and kissing or something. the clash, musically is the best of the lot. it doesn t sound like traditional punk, but it doesn t sound like anybody else but the clash either. punk was, i think, a kind of wide umbrella, and that wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex in their musical performance style. people aren t gonna buy something that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. you love that punk rock these days. can we have your thoughts on that. i think it s better just to call it a new wave really. i think by defining it as punk, you re automatically putting a boundary around what s possible. and i think bands like talking heads are excellent. the talking heads was the ultimate college band and they did sophisticated, spiky music that reflected who they were. and it particularly reflected