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The Residents - *THE RESIDENTS RETRO-ACTIVE* *Melody Maker, 1989? 1990?* *by Simon Reynolds* From the start, The Residents had a parasitical...1 week ago
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Sad Songs - Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which publication I cannot remember, *1. What are your earliest memories of music?* The ...1 week ago
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Future Rock - A rock book I have never ever heard of before, by a writer I never heard of before - until this moment. Published 1976. After this book, *David Dow...1 week ago
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anti-theatricality in politics (slight return) - Things have been too grim for me to do these posts, but then this one came along (the theater kids being the (mal-)administration, if that isn't obvi...2 weeks ago
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Up Middle Finger - This pair had a Top 10 hit with a song that is basically about an intra-scene war - the nu garage rappists (Oxide + Neutrino, So Solid) versus the old...4 weeks ago
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Still In A Dream - my new book, out in June - Excited to announce the publication this summer of Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94. On White Rabbit Books. It'...5 weeks ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter Yuletide Edition: Ghost Box 20th; Moon Wiring Club; Lo Five; Oneohtrix Point Never; Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernie Parmegiani, Ms. Jean Schwarz, Kilkenny Electroacoustic Lab - Sweeping up the mince pie crumbs and taking down the tinsel, while feeling one-sherry-too-many green-about-the-gills - that's yours truly the d...3 months ago
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Circle of Light (1972) - Anthony Roland / Pamela Bone / Delia Derbyshire +Elsa Stansfield. - Would dearly like to see the whole of this film, based on Pamela Bone's amazing photographs Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they d...4 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.