LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Hearing “Winter of 79” three years after is initial recording comes as a shock. As undisciplined, chaotic, and downright lousy as punk was, at least it produced its own kind of militancy. And now here’s Tom Robinson scuffling through the EMI vaults and emerging with a collection of TRB tracks that weren’t released on an album during the lifetime of the band.
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Penny Valentine
by
LOOKING AT THE BLACK & WHITE WORLD
Hearing “Winter of 79” three years after is initial recording comes as a shock. As undisciplined, chaotic, and downright lousy as punk was, at least it produced its own kind of militancy. And now here’s Tom Robinson scuffling through the EMI vaults and emerging with a collection of TRB tracks that weren’t released on an album during the lifetime of the band. The reaction to hearing that friendly, exuberant and often out of tune line-up is that in '' .a1?^ ^8 there was that driving naive optimism that things could change. Now, when change is needed more than it ever was then, everything’s gone underground. Muffled, silenced, under a cloak of music’s traditional role: entertainment.