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John Lingan
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Writer. "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about CCR. Working on “A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers.” johnlingan.com
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Seated for MEGALOPOLIS and shame on any of you who won’t do the same.

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Good book cover

AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History by Steven Blush. Book cover featuring a bloody young white guy singing into a microphone.
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I don’t know you but hell yeah to you & dad. 🤘🏻

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Wish more people agreed with you!

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Just gonna pretend your gym is you plus a dozen shirtless 20something firefighters.

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Missed the 20th anniversary of this by a few weeks but it remains a top 10 album of the century for me and the highlight of a 40-year career. Nothing sounds louder than the last 90 seconds of “Hiding All Away.”

Cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.”
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Hard to argue!

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First cross-country trip, 19 yrs old traveling with friends. When I wasn’t driving I tore through “Underworld” as I got my first views of the desert west. Read 827pp in 4 days 20 years ago and still remember lines from it. That or the ending of “The Transit of Venus,” which made me yell out loud.

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Undoubtedly on both counts. All respect to Westwood, another reason I struggled to care is my disinterest in fashion, unfair as that is. I just kept wondering “Can we hear more about the Clash, Damned, and Buzzcocks?”

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It's a great depiction of the UK in the 70s and I love a lot of this music. Bummer, though that the most important band of the first wave of punk was completely uninteresting outside of their semiotics. I never want to hear about Malcolm McLaren ever again.

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John Lingan
@johnlingan.bsky.social
Writer. "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about CCR. Working on “A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers.” johnlingan.com
459 followers341 following612 posts