Interviews Bilingual How l learned to hate rock 'n' roll
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Neil Another title I'd had lying around forages, but the song was written at Rocky Lane. We'd never written a song about hating rock 'n' roll.

Chris It's a bit ironic putting this after the previous tracks. I think we don't really know what we like and don't like.

Neil  The song is a statement about the things

about rock 'n' roll that I don't like-all the pomposity and hypocrisy and the rest of it. I'm saying that when I grew up, I hated all these things. It suggests that one once liked rock 'n' roll but was disillusioned by it. Really it should be called 'Howl became disillusioned by rock 'n' roll'. You get disillusioned because it's insincere, everyone copies everyone else, everyone sets them selves up as wanting to change the world and then joins the rock aristocracy. We're going through it again at the moment.

Chris There's even a dance aristocracy now that's even worse. You've got all the DJs flying around the world in private jets and swanning around in Ferrarls and going on about their wine collections. It's dreadful.

Neil  I don't know what we were trying to be musically on this. I don't think it was ever going to be anything other than a b-side. The album was sort of finished when we did it.

 
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