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.
into thinn air (the Bachelard series 3 of ?)
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A poetic conjunction - "thinn air", "pure white"
The "thinn" suggestive of an archaic spelling, or perhaps even an unusual
child's name,
It's a rel...
Glam Raiders / Glitter Ravers
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Sampling from *Kenny*'s "The Bump"
(ooh and right at the end a tiny bit of Steppenwolf)
*Space Raiders* almost seem like a belated belch from the bac...
The Avalanches
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*THE AVALANCHES, Since I Left You*
*Uncut, 2001by Simon Reynolds*
You should hear the things people say about The Avalanches: "Basement Jaxx
meets th...
Cale versus Cale
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Flicked past this mellow fellow's elpees in the racks so many times over
the years, always faintly intrigued, but never enough to li...
Hinterlands of Memory
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Here's an interesting book - a specifically Canadian perspective on
hauntology, exploring the nexus of nationality, landscape and memory in
the 1970s...
Naffrofuturist (slight return)
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Around this time, *Sounds* actually had a Futurists Chart in their charts
page. Initially it was compiled by Stevo of Some Bizzare f...
"jumping iz not a crime"
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Kieran Press-Reynolds with a guest piece at Shawn Reynaldo's First Floor,
while the main man takes a vacation. It's a report on "the holy hell of
cursed j...
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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