Wednesday, March 18, 2015

I Don't Want to be Nice by John Cooper Clarke (1978)




Looking at any still photo of John Cooper Clarke and you might mistake him for Bob Dylan. Like Dylan, he is a poet, but the similarities stop soon thereafter. Clarke is considered to be a "punk poet". I think that is an apt description as he seems a bit surly. Wait, now there is something else he has in common with Dylan.

I don't know what it is that I like about this tune. The music is relatively simple. I think I just like his attitude...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1gB-KNqa9k

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