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I wish to speak to the MGMT - I suppose it's a pointer to the average age of people commenting at this blog that in the Inspirals-inpired thread about artists who take the name in va...3 days ago
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Radio Utopia - People remember the Sixties pirate radio heyday, when the pirates were literally boats at sea.... and they remember the Eighties terrestial tower-block r...1 week ago
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Meet the Declinists! - Kieran and I both appear in this interesting piece by Spencer Kornhaber at The Atlantic, which inspects the discourse of decline in culture - mostly focuse...1 week ago
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Future Schlock - "Schlock" here used in the Yiddish-derived sense of "inferior or shoddy goods" Oops, here's an earlier Hawkwind-related release...2 weeks ago
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Brutalist / Botanist - This whole Brutalism thing has gotten a bit of out of hand now.... they are scraping the barrel bottom, I think. Mind, you, these photographs are co...2 weeks ago
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anti-theatricality in rock (and a little bit of pro-theatricality in rock) - (from Viv Albertine's memoir *Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music, Boys. Boys. Boys.*) Dennis DeYoung of Styx, early '8...2 weeks ago
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RIP David Thomas - *Melody Maker*, June 18 1986 David Thomas at the first Carrot Festival, Warsaw, Poland - *Melody Maker *April 18 1987 ...3 weeks ago
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fave raves - 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...2 months ago
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RIP David Lynch - "Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during his second year of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Phi...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...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.