I was wondering when you would get to this in your McCullough retrospective. It is notorious, of course. As I remember it, Tony Wilson and the surviving band members were furious. And there is no denying that the last two paragraphs - in particular, the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph - are catastrophically ill-judged. But I think overall it is better than its reputation suggests. He's writing with raw feelings that are genuinely powerful, and incline me to forgive the points where he gets carried away and goes too far. And he situates Curtis in a place and time better than any other writer before or since. A work of flawed genius.
the honest epigone
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Further to this earlier post on* Robyn Hitchcock* and the wonderful tribute
he wrote to *Syd Barrett *(albeit on an odd-numbered commem...
vinyl mysticism
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At *Washington Post*, an interesting pictorially rich feature on how vinyl
records are made today
Interesting, even though I have almost no interest - ...
RIP MC Duke
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RIP *MC Duke *
Another of those figures who moved through the UK rap scene and into
hardcore rave and jungle.
"*Can't beat the system, go with the fl...
Mashupmanship ("lameness on the horizon")
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*LAMENESS ON THE HORIZON*
*(from 2001, Unfaves, off the old website A White Brit Rave Aesthete
Thinks Aloud)*
I was enjoying the Avalanches show at SOB...
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“*Writing aloud* is not expressive; it leaves expression to the pheno-text,
to the regular code of communication; it belongs to the geno-text, to
signifi...
Futuromania - out today!
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The UK edition of Futuromania is out today on White Rabbit ! Via select
record stores, comes with a limited edition freezine of bonus pieces! Check
out thi...
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...
I was wondering when you would get to this in your McCullough retrospective. It is notorious, of course. As I remember it, Tony Wilson and the surviving band members were furious. And there is no denying that the last two paragraphs - in particular, the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph - are catastrophically ill-judged. But I think overall it is better than its reputation suggests. He's writing with raw feelings that are genuinely powerful, and incline me to forgive the points where he gets carried away and goes too far. And he situates Curtis in a place and time better than any other writer before or since. A work of flawed genius.
ReplyDeleteYes it's overwraught but absolutely forgivable in the circumstances I think - and authentic in its heroizing impulse.
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