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.
Retro-Futuristic Summer
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Trap nostalgia
"*You can’t automatically make it 2009 again just by making some very 2009
music. But I have long wondered what’s going to...
ran through the jungle (of modern music)
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Fun piece by Kieran Press-Reynolds looking at oblique strategies for
digging up weird music, with a hierarchy of engagements mode from basic to
ultra-obsc...
Pete Shelley
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*Pete Shelley tribute*
*Pitchfork, December 8 2028*
*by Simon Reynolds*
The first and only time I saw Buzzcocks play live was in 2012, at the
Incubate ...
The Zone of Frou Frou Intensification
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*Cocteau Twins* have a very odd career shape.
It starts logically enough - first few records they are shaking off
influences.
*Garlands* - OKAY
*Lull...
deep deep inside (Hardrive Continuum)
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Barbara Tucker diva loop - brilliantly stuttered and ghostified - is taken
from what might well be my favorite house track that isn't by Todds Terry
o...
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"*What's interesting about rock 'n' roll is that its truly radical aspect
occurs at the level of sound. ‘Tutti Frutti’ is far more revolutionary than
Le...
"The cracked music archivist"
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*Kieran Press-Reynolds*, in his* Pitchfork* column *Rabbit Holed*,
interviews "*Music Place*, the bonkers archivist fighting against the
sterility of mus...
Cracks (1975?)
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Featuring the voiceover of *Dorothy Moskowitz *of United States of America
fame.
Interview with Moskowitz at at *Bob Fischer*'s *The Haunted Generat...
fave raves
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I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD*
asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs /
nights-out-danci...
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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