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Ambient Jungle - [from Faves + Unfaves of 2000 - director's re-cut] The greatest track of the 1990s? *NOSTALGIA OF THE YEAR: AMBIENT JUNGLE* Another Pop Mystery I'v...12 hours ago
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"Tis no man - tis a remorseless writing machine" (1-3) - Mvuent, who blogs as Aloysius, returns - after a long silence - to his "audio animation" series Esoteric Experiences At Home and abruptly finishes it with ...2 days ago
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we need flight to feel the light (the Bachelard series 4 of ?) - The last truly divine *Moving Shadow* release? *Dave Wallace* was in *Aquasky*, which name could not be more Bachelardian. Nowhere-near-as-good fli...2 days ago
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Glam Raiders / Glitter Ravers - 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...4 days ago
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Hinterlands of Memory - Here's an interesting book - a specifically Canadian perspective on hauntology, exploring the nexus of nationality, landscape and memory in the 1970s...1 week ago
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Naffrofuturist (slight return) - Around this time, *Sounds* actually had a Futurists Chart in their charts page. Initially it was compiled by Stevo of Some Bizzare f...1 week ago
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four favorite riffs - 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...2 months ago
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angel delights - 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...1 year ago
After a certain amount of ribbing for Peel around these parts over his Damascene conversion to the new orthodoxy of 1977, it’s good to see he had pretty good ears even before Punk. One of these albums is in my all-time Top Five, five are more or less excellent, and the Be Bop Deluxe, while not really my thing, is still an interesting historical artifact. Only three are real duds: Rod, BJH and Supertramp. Crime of the Century really is dismal, isn’t it? The Pickwick Dark Side of the Moon. But not quite as good as that makes it sound.
ReplyDeleteI think the point wasn't that he had bad taste pre-punk - but that he really good taste for the most part that he then junked for the New Wave.
ReplyDeleteThe stuff in this 1974 selection is all erased from the later 40 faves of all time list from 1979. Rock Bottom, Phaedra, I Want to See the Bright Lights, Tiger Mountain, Kimono My House, Veedon Fleece - not one of them makes into the 40 of all Time. Nor is there anything much like these albums either. He makes like he wasn't ever the great champion of the Underground.