This is one that I put together over the weekend. Comprising the seven appearances that Generation X made on the UK's iconic music weekly, here we have Mr Idol and Co. curling lips and making guitar shapes with gay abandon. I have never pinpointed just what it is that I don't like about the band. There are not many of the first cohort of British punk bands that I do not appreciate wholeheartedly. It can't be that Billy disappeared across the pond to become a glam metal rockstar... the Clash embraced all things American and I have all of their albums. I just dunno.... answers on a postcard please.
Anyway, enough of my musical preferences or otherwise, this is a nice short collection. Unfortunately, the footage features Jimmy Saville briefly, but I think that it is not for me to censor the material, visitors to this page are old enough to know the despicable nature of the man and his deeds. In this respect, I always feel for the bands who had limited exposure on Top of the Pops but have now been cancelled (in the sense of repeats (and the BBC have pretty much been consistently repeating episodes of the show for the last 30 years or more) because they had the misfortune of being introduced by Saville. It does seem unjust that those bands should be denied repeat appearance fees etc just because they shared a few seconds of screentime with a sexual deviant.
Just close your eyes whenever you hear... 'Now then, now then boys and gals'...
DVD Image: https://we.tl/t-6L2tep0TIY
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-jHnj2th0W9
