Idolator

Thanks to Loudersoft for posting this MP3 of "Evidently Chickentown," the 1980 punk-rant from John Cooper Clarke that appeared on last night's episode of The Sopranos (the song played just as [REDACTED] was being [REDACTED]). Clarke was part of the British post-punk scene of the late-'70s/early-'80s, opening for the Buzzcocks and garnering comparisons to Johnny Rotten (there's a 1978 interview with NME archived here, if you need more info). Hearing the taut, jarring "Chickentown" on The Sopranos was a surprise at first, until we realized that the song has just as many utterances of the F-word in two minutes as the show does in an entire episode: More »