ADAM & THE ANTS-PLASTIC SURGERY

[ManFromMelbourne]

For Ritter. Latest issue of Vive Le Rock magazine has interview with Adam in it Adam says, "I'm not a new romantic, I'm punk. I get clubbed in with that fucking new romantic, steve strange scene." There you have it. Straight from the man's mouth.

[joannalexus1]

This gives me chills ....so brilliant

[NYrocknrollbitch]

Hahahahahaha right. Good response, SLC punk!

[wotdoesthisbuttondo]

lol clock the nutter at the end, if that film didn't have all the gay bits it would be repeated all the time (no offence intended)

[gwugluud]

One thing I heartily agreed about with punk rock in their rebellion against the rock standard of the day was this hippie notion that you aren't licensed to express yourself until after you've practised your instrument 21 hours a day for 10 years straight. THEN, just maybe, you might be allowed to express yourself. A guitarist can still be effective EVEN IF he doesn't play six million notes per second during his/her guitar solo. I know this is difficult for people to understand.

[wonadewona]

shame adam got tangled to the guitarist though, hahah

[DinoVice]

nah man its awesome.. it just shows the energy and anxst they had.. its like pooring piss and vinegar into a open wound..

[wonadewona]

yeaa i know..i do love this one..  ;)

[nostringsleft]

a punk masterpiece!

[gwugluud11]

It's amazing how great punk's 1st wave was. Yet for all their crowing about how the hippies sold out, punk bands would already be sold out by their 2nd album. That breaks the hippies' record tenfold.

[ritter89]

@gwugluud11 Anyone whose signed to a major label has essentially "sold out" and most of the people who were/are drawn to punk and it's aesthetic were/are every bit the capitalists and fame whores that they claim to detest. I always saw them as kids who were desperate for fame and attention but lacked the musical chops to get them there. Consequently, the deemed themselves "punks" and discovered their own marketing tool. IMO, very few musicians are completely indifferent to fame and recognition

[NYrocknrollbitch]

@ritter89

How very pretentious are you? Christ! Get a life!

[ritter89]

@NYrocknrollbitch Oh, blow me. I'm pretentious b/c I express my opinion? Pretentious is referring to one hit wonders from the 80s as "icons" and "geniuses". Punk started with The Velvet Underground and ended with The Stooges. By the late 70s/early 80s, punk was just another trendy marketing tool. Same thing happened to Grunge. Underground music movements like punk are often finished by the time the general public and major record labels catch on. Insert Adam Ant (radio friendly New Romantic)

[ritter89]

@NYrocknrollbitch BTW, if you think that this music falls under the category of punk rock, you're completely clueless. Ant himself associates his music with the New Romantics, NOT Punk. Completely different genres of music from completely different underground movements. It's an insult to the musicians to just lump everything into one monolithic category. Not my problem that dopey youtube posers file Billy Squire under heavy metal and Bow Wow Wow under punk (b/c Annabella had a Mohawk)

[NYrocknrollbitch]

@ritter89 a friend of Adam Ants I suppose? you speak as if you think he's your pal or something. how sad. maybe one day you can meet some real musicians and get clued in!!

[taigkyo]

@ritter89, My your world is very compartmentalized! Adam Ant changed styles every album or so and NEVER, NEVER EVER NEVER associated his music with the New Romantics. He consistently and insistently called his style ANTMUSIC! But if you wanna split hairs, this is CLASSIC British Punk. Adam was part of that first wave from 1976-78. Sounds like your definition of punk is restricted to it's American roots which have more in common with Garage than what most people think of as "punk" (ie: Pistols).

[azils]

Pigeon holes were meant for Pigeons.....

Who cares what the bracket is....its good music..Great band of that time.Its the thestuff that came after that was too poppy imo.

[qwisp]

That was the silliest punk performance I've ever seen. And Adam strikes me as the kind of guy that would have tried to become famous through polka music if that's what was happening in the UK at that time. He was much better suited for that New Romantic bullshit.

[metric1977]

Not sure it was really punk, and not sure you know what you're on about ...... more 'art school' rock and definitely cool, but you need to understand that the 'performance' as you put it was part of the Derek Jarman movie Jubilee, so consider this before you deride it as a 'punk' performance ....

[antipatriotmissile]

fuck you

[qwisp]

Touchy.

[redtorso]

the real spirit of 77 ......Awesome !!!!!

[JoeStunner]

One of the great cinematic, musical moments. Adam was genuinely revolutionary and dangerous and sexy as fuck!

[AnnabelApple]

Hell, I love anything he did with the Ants. I can tolerate most of his solo stuff (Friend or Foe album was pretty good)...I don't discriminate when it comes to the Ants though.

[jennvix]

HOT.

[adamnorten]

This was from the movie "Jubilee"

[PushItAway]

his pirate days were good and so is this song

[MichaelJackson1234]

WTF?

what a shit!

[Ella1464]

Wow, great clip. Never saw this before! Thanks for posting.

[stokeysaminleeds]

fantastic long before he sold his soul

[theonlytruepunk]

Excellent! Long before the pirate days