Results for “mod subculture”

Songs

Small Faces

A breezy mid-60s pop song on the surface, this track is widely understood as a coded tribute to a drug dealer, dressed up in the…

drug culture adoration and dependency coded language

Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker's "Boxcar" is a scene-insider's takedown of scene-insiders, mocking the idea that punk authenticity can be policed by…

authenticity vs. gatekeeping subcultural policing betrayal by peers

Soft Cell

Danceteria is Soft Cell's nostalgic travelogue through the real-life 1980s New York nightclub of the same name, name-checking…

nostalgia nightlife and subculture fame and artifice

Ultravox

A snapshot of late-1970s London nightlife rendered as urban decay, the song strings together quick character sketches of…

urban alienation post-punk nightlife economic stagnation

Dead Kennedys

A blunt, sub-two-minute hardcore broadside aimed at the fascist skinhead element that had begun infiltrating American punk shows…

authenticity vs. conformity anti-fascism violence within subcultures

Buck Owens

A breathless rockabilly novelty song about a man proud of his girlfriend's job slinging hot dogs and her magnetic pull on the…

young love teenage nightlife culture pride and mild jealousy

Jamie xx

A dance-floor chant built from a handful of vocal samples looped and rearranged rather than a lyric in any conventional sense.…

collective identity cultural pride/nationalism (subcultural) defiance

Sonic Youth

A tribute song built from fragments of grief, aggression, and dark humor, written in memory of a scene figure lost to violence.…

violent death and its aftermath rock scene mythology and idolization gender and predation within a music subculture

Calexico

This track is less a song than a cataloging spree: a rapid-fire inventory of lowrider culture, street slang, drugs, and Tucson's…

border culture and bilingual identity excess and intoxication lowrider car culture