I first heard Elton Motello’s 1977 classic punk...

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10:03 am - Thu, Jan 12, 2012: 13 notes

I first heard Elton Motello’s 1977 classic punk anthem Jet Boy, Jet Girl back in 1981 when I was 18 year old architecture student. I liked punk, I was into the Jam and the Buzzcocks and the Ramones and Nina Hagen and X and the Cramps, and had seen some less well known bands at the Island, which was a divey club near the freeway overpass in midtown Houston, but a friend who was more of a punk rock follower introduced this song to me. Apparently even though I lived through this period, I was unaware that there was all sorts of cross fertilization between situationist ideology and punk music. “He gave me head” was such a transgressive thrill to hear back then.