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Yes, I Am The Voice of Your Generation.
(AUDIO: Redondo Beach by Patti Smith)
1. New York is the hero, the saint, the shelter, the escape.
2. The tight pluck, the rigid jangle, the rhythm guitar, a slick sound detuned, the epileptic drone.
3. Black sneakers, bit lip, crooked teeth, generations leaning away from the weird light.
4. Orna Golan, fireworks factory, intensity quotient.
5. Cigarettes, black water coffee, bad-nerve, runaway trains, the underground audience.
6. The primal scream, the fever dream, the shudder, the death rattle, the tremor and tide.
7. Black-heartedness, Rock & Roll paganism, that sick moon overdrive.
8. Drunk on fame, death, effigy, sonic empowerment, expatriatism from self.
9. The sound of 10 to 20 people scrawling notes on the afterlife.
10. The free sound, free market, black market emotive, the street lamp votive.
11. The lock-groove lullaby, Hilly Cristal as curator, Moon Dog the Walter Cronkite reading the bad news bulletin from the arcs of heaven.
12. Jim Carrol, Lewis Carrol, a Lenny Kaye after-world.
13. Vox distorti, the upturned Detroit sound, pirate radio saved the world.
14. Coney Island, dirty skyscapes, Sonic Youth T’s, gum pocked sidewalks, a ticker tape fallout from the underground up.
15. The righteous will inherit ten trillion-watts on this radio wave earth.
16. The message will be universal, the outcome indefinable.
17. The atonements, meditations, the vicar and his microphone.
18. A network of glances from across the dark room.
19. The unwired, ungrounded, unnerved.
20. The dangers of electric sound.
21. The innocents, the kid nomads, the Corso-hearts, the secret heroes, the lost and ruined, the reformers, runaways, bad sweethearts, the unkept.
22. Rock and Roll Power Company.
23. The losing control.
24. The sister sun, wild and amped and unhinged at her skirt seams.
25. The virility, the virtue, the Vaudevillian inverse.
26. The next big dance craze.
27. The last train home.
28. Anarchisms in city living, intellectualism, intellectual integration.
29. The ethics of rejection, the return of taboo, the fractured freedoms, the polar perverse.
30. Race riots, the jagged dominos of mainstream society upturned.
31. The pulse, the surge, the riot tide of estranged America pushing back.
32. The anthemic, the belonging, the soundtracks of escape, of your new cool identity.
33. Rock and roll as the original viral communication.
34. Geniuses, illiterati, street souls, a unionized blue youth.
35. You are only free in the tide of this rhythm, this revolution.
36. This is the street beat.
37. This is the message.
38. Rock and roll, the oracle, the medium.
39. We are the pendulum, the deciders, the social equation itself.
40. The golden calf of 50’s America turned on its crew cut head.
41. The shock, the quake, the gunned down and riled up.
42. A ferocious new paradigm that embraces, not rejects.
43. The honesty of unknowing, un-controlling.
44. Cut-ups, and fuck-ups, and free-thinkers and freaks.
45. The Lost & Found Generation, the have-not’s and why-not’s.
46. The tenement cells, the unheated rooms, the baskers, the buskers, the beggars, the rooftops in Brooklyn.
47. Richard Brautigan’s Karma Repair Kit, 48-50.
48. The mirror stare, the howl, the honey-sweet urban roar, the electric expanse, the sexualized percussions, the new beat alphabet, the ripped, wrought and re-wired.
49. The black silence of Rock & Roll.
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