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Unfamiliarity breeds Contempt / declensions of Duncan - I thought I had heard *everything *- but the munificence of all the vintage Top of the Pops episodes on YouTube supplied surprise Here, in 1977, sava...2 days ago
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rockstars in the nuddy (slight return) - *Sounds* again, of course - what was it with their compulsion to show hard rockers with their kit off? True, the...3 days ago
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reading matters 2: keeping it in the Family - Our Kid with a Rabbit Holed about the wacky world of the Young Wikipedians who are frenziedly writing the second draft of music history. (The first draft...5 days 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”...5 days ago
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Acen apex - This video for the Monolithikmaniak mix of “Window in the Sky” - only to be found in this fuzzy, off-TV video cassette recording - is some kind of audio...1 week ago
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asignifying craft - … a new millennium style of pop writing / rock criticism that is cautious about reaching for significance and concentrates instead on a kind of inventory...1 week 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 weeks ago
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Corduroy Psychedelia - Interesting piece at *Split Infinities *on a band that is getting talked about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz "Am...3 weeks ago
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The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - In honour of the new RHCP doc, which is focused on Hillel Slovak, their tragically-died-young guitarist, and in further honour of Flea's jazz ...3 weeks ago
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Futuromania - the paperback - The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of the 1970s ...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.