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Robert Wyatt - *A tribute to Robert Wyatt, written and recorded for remote participation in a 2025 birthday celebration for the Great Man, organized by Sukhdev Sandhu ...5 days ago
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Boards of Canada - Inferno (a Hauntology Parish Newsletter Special Issue) - I have been worried that the brothers’s new effort has not received the amount of attention it deserves. So to boost its profile a bit, here is a little...1 week ago
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Secret thesis (style bible slight return) - Some of this 1984-85 *iD i*magery is genuinely cool, really chic e.g. this one below Or just fun But some of it is a ...1 week ago
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A Wombat’s Anus - So I was feeling like it was time to read a *Margaret Atwood* and I fancied *Oryx and Crake,* having been intrigued by a chapter on it in *Mark Fisher*’...1 week ago
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Of Instagrammatology - Had Instagram for ages and ages but never got into looking at it regularly until quite recently.... the algorithm quickly learned to serve me up dance m...1 week ago
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Musicophilia - "What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster." "I would ...1 week ago
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1976: The Arse End of Old Wave (the New Wave barely in sight) - Feels like any week now it ought to be kicking off in terms of Punk Fiftieth Anniversary coverage. Magazine retrospectives, TV programs, exhibitions, boo...1 week ago
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LESS THAN TWO WEEKS UNTIL STILL IN A DREAM IS OUT!! Details of UK Tour, media appearances, 50 Lost Treasures zine, translations, advance praise... - Check out my Instagram Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news about Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-...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”...1 month 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...1 month 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.