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Spam Risk / Scam Risk - Dear Simon Reynolds, My name is ___________________ and I work with the programming team at BBC Radio 4, a nationally recognized Hot Adult Contemporar...11 hours ago
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Pure Inspiration - Well, I may not have provoked a musician to pen a retaliation tune (unlike my own flesh and blood, who recently joined a select pantheon of irritant crit...22 hours ago
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Presentemanía - In November last year, Kieran and I joined Argentine critics *Pablo Schanton* and *Antonia Kon* to discuss music writing and music's future as part o...2 days ago
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Absolutely *fascinating* current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the *Daily Mir...3 days ago
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Letter to a Young Music Critic - The easy answer: if you want your writing to be more passionate, write about things you feel passionate about Otherwise it can feel a bit forced If you ...5 days ago
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Still In A Dream: UK events, media appearances + articles, Fifty Lost Treasures zine, translations, Rough Trade offer, and more - LATEST: Me talking Dream @ Word In Your Ear podcast w/ Mark Ellen + Dave HepworthLATEST: Me talking Dream at Paul McDermott's To Here Knows When podcast.^^...1 week ago
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Fuck Art, Let's Dance / Fuck Dance, Let's Art - *(a talk I gave at Harvard in 2012 at a conference on Art + Rock) * “When 'art' walks through the door, it's got 15 suitcases full of very smelly washi...1 week ago
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secret thesis (slight unsightly return) - Is that bended knee meant to suggest an enormous deformed erection? Not a good look - in both the clothing/coiff...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”...3 weeks 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...4 weeks 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.