Song(s) of the Day # 3,653 The Goin' Nowheres

The Go Nowheres  'consider themselves a Punk Rock Group and dedicate their work to Kenneth Patchen, Karen Carpenter and Terrence McKenna.'.

I am immediately interested in a band called The Goin' Nowheres, This and the quotation above on their Spotify bio led me to believe them Punk. Theirs is a name that draws from Richard Hell's Blank Generation mission statement principle. Hell is as good a person to go to if you are looking or any guiding principle of what that movement was all about. History can be misleading. Some might conclude that it was all about gobbing.

Not so. Blank Generation. Here we go. If I don't care about myself or what's going to happen to me, why on earth should you? And once we've wiped the slate completely clean of given methods of meaning we might have some earthly chance of coming up with new ways of forging forward into a slightly more interesting shared experience and future.

So now we've done 'Punk in a paragraph' let's get back to The Goin' Nowheres and their album Hot Moonlight Album. It's an exciting and unorthodox listen. A record I can see myself listening to quite a bit and getting to know. Like someone you meet and immediately decide you want to meet again. Because they're not quite like anyone you already know. 

Not all of it is actual Punk as you expect it by any means. Living Dangerously for example just screams Graham Nash, probably the least Punk Rock musician who ever lived. 

It's an eclectic and interesting record that's for sure. The Goin' Nowheres are out of Seven Devils, California, which sounds like an interesting place in itself and recorded this at Asheville North Carolina which seems like one of the epicentres of the music world right now. It's all very current in some ways. Though with plenty of reminders of the past too.

In the end I decided that this was only really Punk if you considered Ray Davies, Warren Zevon, Andy Partridge, Robyn Hitchcock. Mark Linxous, the early Beck. Punks.They wrote their own script. So does this.It's a terrific record frankly.