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New Wavest (#3 of ??) - *Clock DVA *- a name one associates with industrial music. Well, they were actually on *Industrial Records*, weren't they? Put out a cassette via them...22 hours ago
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RIP Shel Talmy - One of the odd things about the social media era is becoming "friends" with musical legends and cult figures that you've never met. Musicians you've inte...1 day ago
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Futuromania in Rough Trade's Books of the Year! - "A collection of compelling essays analysing the technological evolutions which have defined pop and electronic music and how this history intersects. Fr...5 days ago
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Dream on - Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - fo...1 week ago
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anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?) - *A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s preve...2 weeks ago
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It's Different For Girls (Auto-Tune) - Following on from the "my kind of rap" post with its coda about Auto-Tune and ad libs. Here's something that's been puzzling me for a while... Q: Why ha...3 weeks ago
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RIP Lillian F. Schwartz (1927 - 2024) - *"Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).... during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionar...4 weeks ago
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haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar - Sometime ago, *Vic Reeves* posted this on Twitter - if I remember right, it's artwork for a tour poster that was nev...1 month ago
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50 Favorite Songs - (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...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...2 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.