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The Honorable Epigone (Are You Inexperienced) - Saw *Robyn Hitchcock *doing "Brenda's Iron Sledge" on *Old Grey Whistle Test* and took against it. Witnessed a support slot for R.E.M. in '87 and tha...1 day ago
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"photography poisons the world" (All the World's A Screen addendum) - Here's an entry from *The Biographical Dictionary of Film* in which David Thomson rehearses some of the concerns about "movie" addressed in the new book*...3 days ago
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Peace Signs (Flash It) - Pure Gurley gorgeousness in this Rogue Unit mix Such emotional subtlety to almost anything Steve Gurley touches The other versions - nice 'n' slinky ...1 week ago
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Take Care - *The Caretaker* *Everywhere at the End of Time* *2019* *History Always Favours The Winners* *(part of Resident Advisor's 2000-2025 Be...2 weeks ago
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Bäck to the Future (det här var imorgon) - Released 1978, recorded at the start of the 1970s. Give it a listen, it's immense What blows my mind is that by the time this ca...3 weeks ago
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STILL IN A DREAM - interviews, reviews, podcast + radio appearances, translations + American edition - Table for one - Still In A Dreams pulsing with an ultravivid glow at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd. Snapped by old friend Mark Hudson.!...4 weeks ago
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faves of the 2010s - (Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...2 months ago
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Visual Music - a lecture, by me - *Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018* *Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series* There is a subset of experimental ani...3 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...3 years 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.