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
Nabokov on music
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“Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of
more or less irritating sounds.”
- Nabokov, *Speak, Memory*
"I have no ear fo...
that's why they call it a...
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Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune
that's some folk-memory persistence
some contiNUUMity
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Ooh a U...
Corduroy Psychedelia
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Interesting piece at *Split Infinities *on a band that is getting talked
about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz
"Am...
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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In honour of the new RHCP doc, which is focused on Hillel Slovak, their
tragically-died-young guitarist, and in further honour of Flea's jazz
album, here...
Glam bandwagon jumpers (1 of ??)
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Is this undignified, or just Donovan reclaiming the small debt that Bolan
owed him?
Visconti-ish strings.
Here he performs "Cosmic Wheel" sitting down a...
The Deep Purple Of ________
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The improbable existence of this book of scholarly essays on *Deep Purple* fer
fuck's sake made me re-contemplate this band's deep u...
Futuromania - the paperback
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The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out
Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of
the 1970s
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Books of Note
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Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any music book this year that
isn't called Still In A Dream.... But I concede that there are some other
interesti...
Sad Songs
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Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which
publication I cannot remember,
*1. What are your earliest memories of music?*
The ...
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