Jim Green
Jim Green has written for Gig, International Musician & Recording World, Hit Parader, Circus, Musician, Guitar World, Crawdaddy!, Creem, Sounds and Record Mirror, among others, and most recently The Big Takeover, but nowhere more prolifically than for Trouser Press, a magazine of which he was a co-owner, columnist and editorial staffer. He now lives in Los Angeles.
58 articles
List of articles in the library
Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Giant Taste
Retrospective by Jim Green, Trouser Press, April 1976
Following in the footsteps of GENTLE GIANT ...
Gong, Steve Hillage: Steve Hillage: Hillage Rising
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1976
A former Gongster spills the karmic beans ...
AC/DC, Little River Band, Sherbet: Little River Band, Sherbet, AC/DC: Up Starts
Profile and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Jim Green, Circus, 14 February 1977
Three Australian Bands Hit The U.S. ...
Thin Lizzy: Bad Reputation (Mercury SRM-1-1186)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, November 1977
WELL, IT'S happened. I thought Thin Lizzy would be established in the front lines of hard-rock's elite, and hoped this would be the album to ...
Cheap Trick: Stone Pony, New Jersey
Live Review by Jim Green, Sounds, 10 December 1977
Cheap Trick hit hick city ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Cruising with Eddie & the Hot Rods
Report by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1978
THE NEW Eddie and the Hot Rods album cover is black and white. It's got this geezer, lead singer Barrie Masters if you must know, ...
Dave Davies, The Kinks: Dave Davies: He Ain't Heavy, He's Ray's Brother
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1978
HORNSEY IS a sleepy working class neighborhood in the northeast of London, far removed from the teeming heart of the city. Not as far away ...
Elvis Costello: Close Encounters of the Irish Kind – Belvis in Elfast
Report by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1978
THESE DAYS it's a big deal for me to take a train down to CBGB and a major odyssey to get into a record company ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1978
YOU CAN: tie up your plastic garbage bag with a wire, send a message on a wire, connect broken bones with a wire, strangle your ...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1978
TELL A LONDONER you're going to Swindon on the weekend and you get the same reaction as if you told a New Yorker you were ...
Squeeze: Putting On The (UK) Squeeze
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1978
"HEY, YOU guys are great! Now which one of you is Bill Bruford?" That's the kind of reception UK Squeeze got on their American tour. ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1979
AT LAST, THE third chapter of the Big Star story comes to light. In fact, it comes in two editions, US and UK, but for ...
Wire: Chairs Missing (Harvest SHSP 4093)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1979
WIRE ARE disconcerting, laconic yet eloquent in fragmented visions, jarring even at their most accessible. They disdain cliché, pushing out the limits of rock; the ...
The Police: Police Lean To America...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1979
IT'S SMOKY and crowded in that dusty old shoebox they call CBGB, and there's a band called the Police onstage – so what else is ...
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY
Live Review by Jim Green, Record Mirror, 3 March 1979
DURING WHAT was billed as the Heartbreakers' "237th Farewell Performance" (truth in advertising?), Johnny Thunders announced that Tony Machine, who'd drummed for the Thunder-less '76 ...
The Only Ones: Only the Lonely
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1979
ONCE UPON a time, there were four individuals who felt out of synch with the Great Rock'n'Roll Circus. Amid varying degrees of alienation from it, ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1979
HORSLIPS AND the new wave? An unlikely topic on the face of it, but Horslips, recently touring here in support of their latest album, The ...
The Ramones Finish High School
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1979
"D-U-M-B, everyone's accusing me..." The Ramones don't wanna be pinheads no more. ...
Motörhead: Bomber (Bronze BRON523)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1980
LISSEN, HOW the b'jeezus can these guys be considered hip by anyone besides a Hell's Angel (and an English one at that)? I mean, look ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1980
"Nothing's been inflated and nothing's been enlarged/What you're looking at, baby, is the original model..."— Will Birch, 1977 ...
Discography by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1980
PINK FLOYD is pretty weird. And not just the band, but the way they've been viewed by the rock world. ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1980
THE INNER sleeve of the current Motors album, Tenement Steps, boldly states "The Motors are Andy McMaster [and] Nick Garvey." A demarcating "with" adds a ...
Gang of Four's Great Leap Forward
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1980
"THE IRONY of our name," says guitarist Andy Gill of Gang of Four, "is the idea that four essentially middle-class English musicians would dare to ...
Secret Affair: A Thoroughly Modern Affair
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1980
IAN PAGE, 19, is the smooth-talking, trumpet-tooting singer/co-writer/producer of Secret Affair, the first and foremost band to emerge from London's neo-mod explosion. He is also ...
The Residents, Snakefinger: Ralph Records: Surrealism a Go Go
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980
Waiting for art talent scouts? There are no art talent scouts. Face it, no one will seek you out. No one gives a shit. — ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture (Mango); Blackbeard: I Wah Dub (UK, More Cut); Matumbi: Point of View (EMI America); Sugar Minott: Black Roots (Mango); Toots ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1981
CONTRADICTIONS, contradictions. (Sigh.) Gary Numan is not a simple proposition. Most people think he's simply wonderful – the electrono-pop tunesmith who's ever so cute – ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1981
HEY BUNKY, are ya feelin' low because the whirlwind East Coast tour you were promised turned out to be two weeks at Vinnie's Peppermint Lounge ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1981
HEAVY METAL at its stalest has few rivals in the all-time tedium stakes. Monsters of Rock, recorded live at Castle Donington in Britain, is not ...
Secret Affair: Behind Closed Doors (I Spy 2)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1981
SECRET AFFAIR has a knack for getting up people's noses. Those you'd expect to be sympathetic to the band's aims react to their name with ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1981
BOTH THESE records explore the musical turf of brave new pop swathed in synthesizers and studio effects. Neither is quite a paradigm of such experimentation; ...
Spandau Ballet, Visage: Blitz Night: Hurrah, New York NY
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1981
ARE THE futurists a spin-off of the Star Trek fanatics? Nope, they're just the newest British cultists of individuality, using make-up and dress that amalgamates ...
Steve Winwood: The Steve Winwood Autodiscography
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1981
Steve Winwood's work defies pigeonholing; his distinctive "blue-eyed soul" vocals grace an impressive blend of rock, soul, jazz and folk. He's responsible for a wealth ...
Colin Newman, Wire: Colin Newman
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1981
"YOU CAN'T forcibly solve contradictions; you've got to allow them to work themselves out," says Colin Newman. What's a Colin Newman? Good question; he himself ...
The Small Faces: The Steve Marriott Autodiscography
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1981
As told to Jim Green ...
Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, The Small Faces: The Steve Marriott Autodiscography Part Two
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1981
As told to Jim Green ...
The Boys, The Members: The Members, the Boys: Privates, New York NY
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1981
MANAGERIAL problems, identity crises, record companies' loss of faith — not a pretty picture, but that's what both the Members and the Boys have faced ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1981
"THE OTHER day I was discussing doing a new kind of record deal for the States. The record companies are going to hate it, but ...
Bill Nelson: Triumph of the Bill
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, November 1981
The admirable Nelson returns ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, 1 November 1981
THE CURE is this kind of rock band that encourages a blurring of distinctions between journalism and criticism. They simply must be considered subjectively; dealing ...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1982
"MANY PEOPLE have said to me, 'You must have changed your style, because you now have a popular record with 'New Toy'," says Lene Lovich. ...
The Police: Ghost in the Machine (A&M SP-3730)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1982
THE POLICE are stars. What with the worldwide mega-success of 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da' and Zenyatta Mondatta, maybe they figured they ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1982
IT'S EASY to criticize October; just call it "Son of Boy" and trash the band. What this line of thought fails to consider is that ...
Blue Oyster Cult: Why You Should Care About Blue Oyster Cult
Comment by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1982
Action conforms to preexistent imagery.– Sandy Pearlman, The History of Los Angeles, 1965-1969 ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1982
PUNK BANDS made up in sheer energetic vitality and charm what they lacked in technique. The young electronic bands now taking the British charts by ...
Laurie Anderson: William Burroughs, John Giorno, Laurie Anderson: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1982
AH YES, culture. Not rock — two-thirds of this bill wasn't even music. But my doubts that a novelist, a poet and a multimedia performance ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, 1 March 1982
PEOPLE HAVEN'T asked U2 if they're the future of rock. They've told them. ...
The Go-Go's, The Police: The Police, Go-Go's: Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, April 1982
IT WASN'T the same seeing the Police at the Spectrum, Philadelphia's pro sports arena, as it was back at CBGB or even the midsize Palladium. ...
Report and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1982
HELLO, SPORTS fans! We're in the 76ers' dressing room at the Spectrum in Philadelphia – but that tall, gangly fella slumped on the end of ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1982
"EQUALITY AND democracy were what we preached. That's how it was when we started, but it didn't last. When we started making $2,000 a night ...
Joan Jett: Selling Records Is The Best Revenge
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1982
"I LOVE ROCK'N'ROLL" has to be one of the corniest, old hat, lowest-common denominator clichés of all, right? The phrase conjures images of barechested, bluejeaned ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1982
BLONDIE IS the new wave success story, from Bowery boys-and girl-to glamorous chart-toppers. Yet the band has never felt it had to toe any musical ...
Captain Beefheart: In Search Of Captain Beefheart
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1983
The elusive Don van Vliet tracked to his lair ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: This Man Believes
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1983
The back of Dexys Midnight Runners' 'Liars A to E' single sleeve bears a message to the world. In general terms it explains the Dexys ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1983
The End of the World is Nigh ...
Musical Youth: Out Of The Mouth Of Babes
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, June 1983
IT'S A BITTERLY cold and gusty February day that finds me scampering through the remnants of New York's blizzard of '83 on my way to ...
Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley: Peter Shelley
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1983
Back when the much-saluted bywords of British punk were "rebellion," "relevance" and "gritty realism," Manchester's Buzzcocks brought something fresh, pithy and even humorous to their ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, December 1983
THE TRANSATLANTIC telephone line is dominated by the muffled distortion and hiss common to calls made across a thousand leagues of water; the voice at ...
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