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Sunday, March 13, 2011
consider it a kind of preface or foreword for the anthology of great rockwrite this blog sort of is and isn't--a piece about changes in pop criticism during the 25 years since I started doing it
Drake
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People tell me that Drake has had a bad year.
Here's me having a go from eight years ago.
*DRAKE – RAP’S MVP*
*The Guardian, April 28 2016*
*by Simo...
slide sideways through Time
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An interesting post from *John Coulthart* at *feuilleton* about *Hawkwind*,
whose whole thing exists at that intersection of science fiction and music
at...
punk cock
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I have had my doubts for quite some time now whether "punk" is any kind of
thing to believe in, once you are past the age of 25 at the very latest.
Doubt...
RIP Herbie Flowers
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THE glam bassist.
"Oddity" might be the first time I registered the existence of the bass as
an instrument - for those strange detonations ...
"jungle" three years ahead of schedule
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Via *Droid*, here's an 1989 pirate radio show on which *Randall* (RIP)
talks about "jungle beats" - at about 3.55 mins into this clip.
The track pla...
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love to listen to this stuff but I'm not sure I really understand it beyond
"that's a bunch of cool weird noises in a pattern"
and I think there *is* som...
hyperstOasis
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Righteous rantige from two from the *Chart Music* pod squad. One still with
us, the other speaking from the hereafter.
In *The Guardian*, *Simon Price*...
50 Favorite Songs
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(for an Italian publication, 2009)
The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls"
The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...
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...