A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
I can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
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“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the
house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house
allo...
Sixx maniacs
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Sixx of one, half a dozen of the other...
Here's a really interesting piece by *Vivien Goldman* about *Rebel Sixx*
and what she calls "Bad Mind" - a...
RIP Steve Harley
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One of the most enjoyable bits in the research for *Shock + Awe *was doing *Cockney
Rebel*.
What an odd anomalous sound they had! (I shunted them into ...
good retro versus bad retro
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Last year, on Twitter a designer who identifies himself only as *Stuff by *
*Mark *put up a bunch of imaginary movie posters that took New Wave songs
and...
Libération Q et A
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(2016?)
*What is the first record you bought in your youth with your own money ?*
Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Do It Yourself, 1979
*Your favorite ...
Dropped Away, Pt 3 - the 1993 Consensus
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Onto the third installment of this series - the *NME*'s list of the
Greatest Albums of All Time, published on October 2 1993.
Here, it's interesting to l...
Bad Company
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I think I've probably played games less than 20 times in my life. (Unless
we're counting Pong, which my granny had for some reason). Despite
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four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
ReplyDeleteI can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
A real shame that the Hugo Largo albums are out of print and not on streaming services. They deserve to be remembered.
ReplyDeleteThere is a pretty good 1987 show on YouTube, recorded in Hoboken NJ. The cover of Wanted Dead or Alive is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79hrhVeGK0
I agree - one of the great lost bands of that era.
Deleteremember the Bon Jovi cover from their live shows - always a treat