I’d go higher – 9 maybe even 10, and I prefer this to the follow-up so don’t see any reason to mark it down as such personally.
The Sex Pistols restaged as burlesque? Sure, but oh how it worked. The queer and BDSM imagery Morley and the band built “Relax” around dropped a little into the background – leathers switched for tight, slogan-dense T-Shirts – and Frankie became a bona fide event. And “Relax” was an absolute, enormous success on those terms. He could – and would – push and polish the machinery further.īut that wasn’t the point of “Relax”: the point was to provoke and delight and suggest, and make people dance. Or almost all: a couple of the keyboard runs are a bit BBC wildlife show, and the sampled splash effect that accompanies a cataract of Caligulan piss in the insta-banned video just sounds on record like something’s broken. And thanks to Trevor Horn it all sounds immense. Years later there was a minor scandal as it transpired none of the band played on the track – but surely nobody was shocked? There’s not a band on this record – there’s barely a song, just a collection of gorgeous Fairlight fragments posing and wheeling to the unending catwalk beat. He’s also the only thing in Frankie you can grab onto. Every time he gasps “when you wanna come” he’s part master of ceremonies, part voyeur, part swept-away joyous victim. He turns the hi-NRG workout of “Relax” into pornography by the simple trick of sounding like a pornographer: there’s a grubbiness to every grunt, gasp and sneer. But he had a seediness to him that was perfect for the material. Holly wasn’t a sexy performer – he sang like he looked, mocking and pinched. And the really clever thing was, when you played it it was hardly obscene at all: its filth was all in the aura and the rumour. Classic McLaren playbook, as many a veteran must have pointed out. The record became an instant legend and soon had the sales to match the publicity. Relax, in its flesh-and-leather sleeve, ached for punishment – as public and official as possible.
Oh, there’d been a Frankie before, and a “Relax” before, but the ban was the B of BANG!, that Paul Morley-driven hyperconcept which when completed would lead to…. Most of all, the world needs both you and me.In the beginning was the ban.
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