All-boy class. The boys are supposed to do some textbook work on the Henry Lawson story The Loaded Dog. I bring the books but they insist they want to do their magazine assignment instead. I give in, knowing they’ll probably bludge. It's a pity, coz I love that Lawson story. They’re a rough bunch, but I get on reasonably well with them – as long as I’m not making them do too much work.
One boy, Jarrod, shows me his magazine. It’s a bike magazine. I open the cover and see an ad for shoes featuring little pictures of shoes barely covering the nipples of some girl who’s picture he got off the internet. I tell him, “Very subliminal.” The rest of the boys are pretty much bludging.
After I've re-read the story to myself there’s not much else to do but listen to the boys’ lurid conversations, so I do a list. This is one I’ve been thinking about for a little while. The idea is to think of all the most important pop music artists since The Beatles – and starting with The Beatles. It’s a list not just of the most important artists of the various pop eras, but rather, a list of the groups and artists who made their times ‘fab’, as exemplified by The Fabs themselves. All according to my own tastes, of course.
Fab artists through time:
1964 – 65: The Beatles
1966: Bob Dylan/The Byrds
1967 – 68: The Beatles/The Kinks/The Rolling Stones
1969: The Velvet Underground/The Band
1970 – 71: Led Zeppelin
1972 – 73: David Bowie
1974: Paul McCartney (Wings)/Elton John
1975 – 76: Abba
1977: Sex Pistols
1978: The Bee Gees
1979 – 80: The Clash
1981: AC-DC/Thin Lizzy
1982 – 83: Culture Club/Human League
1984 – 85: The Smiths
1986: Guns n Roses
1987: Go Betweens/U2
1988 – 90: REM
1991 – 93: Nirvana
1994: Pearl Jam
1995: Blur
1996: Oasis
1997 – 98: The Spice Girls
1999: The Verve
2000: Travis
2001 – 2002: Coldplay
…So, what do you think of that? And, yes, I do mean it about The Spice Girls! They truly made their era Fab. What artists have been fab this year?
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