Life Goes On

The second installment of "Songs That Shouldn't Die" - for those who can remember this series through the fog that is your life and the insignificance of this effort - is from a band that started out scaring a lot of aging hippies, became the vanguard of punk before anybody knew what punk was, presaged the Seattle grunge scene by a decade, and are still touring decidedly NOT doing nostalgia shows. Captain Sensible, Dave, Stu, Pinch, and Monty Oxymoron.

I love the blurb from their web site...

The curtain fell quickly soon after the band took to the small stage at The Nashville club that night back in 1976, following an offensive burst of something that could hardly be described as popular music - intensely loud guitars, screeching vocals, thundering drums - all played at breathtaking speeds.

The audience, there that night to see the band Salt, clucked their approval at the group's dismissal. Who was this upstart band? Who did they think they were, trying to upset a music scene that nightly recognised Elton John and Eric Clapton as being the top of the pops? Good riddance.

And then, from behind the curtain, came the band's bass drum ... launched into the deserving crowd of decaying hippies, overturning their tables and smashing their greasy pints of beer. An uproar ensued.

And the legend of The Damned was born.

Which leads me to the song called "Life Goes On." It will sound familiar to you, somehow. They were doing this when Kurt Cobain was in grade school... listen...

YOU HAVE TO GO THERE BECAUSE THEY'VE DISABLED THE EMBED

Anyhow welcome once again to my iPod. This song should NOT be allowed to die!