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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 Best Albums) * Mem...19 hours 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 days ago
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Inscape and the hard gem-like flame - Long streamers were rising from over Kemble End one large flake loop-shaped, not a streamer but belonging to the string, moving too slowly to be seen, se...3 days ago
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opportunists knock - Yes that is *Tears For Fears *in their early mod revival incarnation: *Graduate* Looking a bit like Mick Talbot's first band, the one with that song t...4 days ago
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When Freaks Were Chic - Danceteria remembered - Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - *Danceteria *oral history by* Joy Press*, aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club i...5 days ago
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Retrotalk: "There Is No Sound of the 2020s" versus "The Future Is Not Lost" versus "21st Century as Cultural Void?" - A flurry of recent debate on the topic of cultural stagnation versus "the future is alive and well actually!" Here's an interesting article by* Gabriel S...1 week ago
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Goth goes Glam - What tarts! *Gene Loves Jezebel *must have seen *Love and Rockets *enjoying Stateside sucksess with the T. Rexy "So Alive" and they thought "*we'll ave ...1 week ago
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STILL IN A DREAM - interviews, reviews, podcast + radio appearances, translations + American edition - Check out Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news about the book#1 Best Sellerin Punk Music (Amazon.co.uk)!NEW!Extract from Still In A Dream...1 week 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...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...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.