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:
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Idolator
Thanks to its pre-closing-credits appearance on The Sopranos, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is racing up the charts: The song is currently No. 30 on the iTunes' "Top Songs" list, right between Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony and T.I.; and the band's Greatest Hits album is No. 54 on Amazon.com (make sure you buy the remastered version, so you can hear all the crisp snare on "Only The Young"!). Meanwhile, keyboardist Jonathan Cain tells the AP the band had no idea how the song was going to be employed:
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