Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Pop Group" in English language version.
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"What I think of as a sort of an analog to what we're doing," says Albini, "is something like the Pop Group, where there was an obvious political or social undertone, but they put so much effort into the music that it was obvious that was what was inspiring them, and they were not just creating a backdrop of their images. I just like playing guitar."
We were one of the first urban outfits fusing dub, reggae, jazz, funk, punk and Latin. The Pop Group were one of the only other bands doing this at the time and we were really influenced by them.
I drew inspiration from a diverse array of sources. I was as influenced by Ennio Morricone and James Brown as I was by Steve Reich and The Pop Group.
We get a lot of credit but we're not due it – we were influenced by the Pop Group, who were fantastic – John Waddington's guitar. They were doing the same thing as us, they were listening to American imports and stuff like that and doing their version of it.
Growing up in Bristol, from a kid onwards I was just going out dancing to really heavy funk and going to reggae dances and we just thought we'd bring in some of the stuff we were really into like Sun Ra and whatever.
We were really young and we just had ideas and sort of amazing different music that we loved, everything from James Brown to Funkadelic to Nico, John Cage, Stockhausen and Ornette Coleman," says [Gareth] Sager. "And you know we just because we were young and naive we just thought you could mix all that stuff together. You know, even if you were 25 you wouldn't think of mixing all those things together."
We were really young and we just had ideas and sort of amazing different music that we loved, everything from James Brown to Funkadelic to Nico, John Cage, Stockhausen and Ornette Coleman," says [Gareth] Sager. "And you know we just because we were young and naive we just thought you could mix all that stuff together. You know, even if you were 25 you wouldn't think of mixing all those things together."
We get a lot of credit but we're not due it – we were influenced by the Pop Group, who were fantastic – John Waddington's guitar. They were doing the same thing as us, they were listening to American imports and stuff like that and doing their version of it.
We were one of the first urban outfits fusing dub, reggae, jazz, funk, punk and Latin. The Pop Group were one of the only other bands doing this at the time and we were really influenced by them.
I drew inspiration from a diverse array of sources. I was as influenced by Ennio Morricone and James Brown as I was by Steve Reich and The Pop Group.
