<![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver" - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver" - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:57:04 EST Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:57:04 EST http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver"]]> http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver#c3793992 "It's the weak whiny singer-songwriter crap that spurred on punk and an entire generation of men who would not take it."

I hope this is somewhat sarcastic; else, it's a highly simplistic interpretation. The rotting metropolis so harrowingly depicted in "Taxi Driver" had a hell of a lot more to do with punk, and the nerve it struck, than any Jackson Browne song. Furthermore, to hear NYC punks tell it, punk was more opposed to prog and corporate rock than the singer-songwriter movement, understandable since many CBGB stars (Patti Smith, David Byrne) had tendencies as self-indulgent and whiny as any singer-songwriter on the opposite coast.

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:346437:c3793992 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:57:04 EST <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver"]]> http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver#c3779802 Disco Tex was in Saturday Night Fever -- alas, very unflamboyantly.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:346437:c3779802 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:54:35 EST <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver"]]> http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver#c3779644 Scorsese's actual debut film, Who's That Knocking At My Door, released six years before Mean Streets showed him to be "finely attuned to Gotham's ceaseless pulse."

hoopinion

]]> 33:346437:c3779644 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:47:56 EST <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver"]]> http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver#c3779385 Oh the pain.

Excuse me, I have to go crisply plaster down my hair.

Jupiter8

]]> 33:346437:c3779385 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:37:37 EST <![CDATA[The New York City Rhythms Of "Taxi Driver"]]> http://idolator.com/346437/the-new-york-city-rhythms-of-taxi-driver#c3778196 I think the only thing that would improve that film is Disco Tex.

Nicolars

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