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.
Audiophilephobia versus Audiophilephilia
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*Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum*, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 12 April, 1959, as
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Snapped off the TV from a YouTube British doc about Newcastle in 1966.
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It's the 20th anniversary of one of the heroic music reclamation projects
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*LCD Soundsystem, live, a week ago, Bowery Ballroom…*
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Radio Utopia
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People remember the Sixties pirate radio heyday, when the pirates were
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tower-block r...
Brutalist / Botanist
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RIP David Lynch
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"Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
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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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