Monday, May 23, 2011

Explorations: Nights in Venice


Original video located here. Accessed 13th June 2015

Song title: Nights in Venice

Artist: The Saints

Year: 1977

Why I like this song:

Lately I've been listening to The Saints. 

The Sex Pistols and the Ramones may have spearheaded the first wave of punk in the seventies but there was also these guys: the Saints. Not as wide renowned but no less important.

Really this is the punk blueprint being fed through an Australian filter: The guitars roar like no other, the rustiness is prominent and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in one go. 
So very much a punk band.

And it is utterly glorious. Still sounds fresh and fiery over three decades later. And, dare I say it, shows up a lot of recent punk bands.

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