I did love Adam and the Ants
Two drummers, the whole warrior thing was pretty cool and the music was actually decent. So why is it that music history seems to have slowly faded them out?
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 13:35,
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my feeling is that after adam's very public diagnosis with bipolar disorder (following the kentish town incident), interest in the band and its important contribution to the post-punk genre was overshadowed by a new narrative focusing on better understanding of mental illness and support for celebrities, like adam, whose erratic, careening behaviour was too quickly mistaken for shenanigans by their entourage.
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I missed the whole New Romantic scene and consider myself very lucky.
From my perspective growing up in the 80s and 90s, Adam & The Ants were perhaps the most uncool band in the world. Drippy, low energy music performed by battle re-enactment types wearing period costumes and Native American facepaint. Why anyone would like it, follow it, or emulate it was a mystery.
The 80s were uncool, especially if you didn't have a drum machine or a distortion pedal, and Adam & The Ants were the pinnacle of sad. Lower than 80s psychedelic people, lower than goths. Even lower than musical theatre on roller-skates.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 15:11,
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So you missed the whole period but have a deep hatred for it
You are a bit weird
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 20:12,
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Cheers.
I don't hate it at all, I was simply answering your question.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 30 Aug 2020, 23:56,
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Give the album Dirk Wears White Sox a listen
It’s from before the New Romantic thing, and it’s bloody great, and very very different to their “dandy highwayman” stuff
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