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Retro-Futuristic Summer - Trap nostalgia "*You can’t automatically make it 2009 again just by making some very 2009 music. But I have long wondered what’s going to...2 days ago
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ran through the jungle (of modern music) - Fun piece by Kieran Press-Reynolds looking at oblique strategies for digging up weird music, with a hierarchy of engagements mode from basic to ultra-obsc...2 days ago
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Pete Shelley - *Pete Shelley tribute* *Pitchfork, December 8 2028* *by Simon Reynolds* The first and only time I saw Buzzcocks play live was in 2012, at the Incubate ...2 days ago
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The Zone of Frou Frou Intensification - *Cocteau Twins* have a very odd career shape. It starts logically enough - first few records they are shaking off influences. *Garlands* - OKAY *Lull...3 days ago
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anti-theatricality and politics (a bit of a backblog) - *"Can we return theater to the actual theater?"* *Steacy Easton* *All I know is that Donald Trump loves the drama and fighting and show.* *He has nothing...6 days ago
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deep deep inside (Hardrive Continuum) - Barbara Tucker diva loop - brilliantly stuttered and ghostified - is taken from what might well be my favorite house track that isn't by Todds Terry o...6 days ago
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"The cracked music archivist" - *Kieran Press-Reynolds*, in his* Pitchfork* column *Rabbit Holed*, interviews "*Music Place*, the bonkers archivist fighting against the sterility of mus...1 week ago
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Cracks (1975?) - Featuring the voiceover of *Dorothy Moskowitz *of United States of America fame. Interview with Moskowitz at at *Bob Fischer*'s *The Haunted Generat...2 weeks ago
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fave raves - I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD* asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs / nights-out-danci...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...2 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.