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Nabokov on music - “Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds.” - Nabokov, *Speak, Memory* "I have no ear fo...1 day ago
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that's why they call it a... - Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune that's some folk-memory persistence some contiNUUMity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ooh a U...1 day 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...1 day 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 album, here...4 days ago
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Glam bandwagon jumpers (1 of ??) - Is this undignified, or just Donovan reclaiming the small debt that Bolan owed him? Visconti-ish strings. Here he performs "Cosmic Wheel" sitting down a...4 days ago
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The Deep Purple Of ________ - The improbable existence of this book of scholarly essays on *Deep Purple* fer fuck's sake made me re-contemplate this band's deep u...4 days 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 ...3 weeks ago
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Books of Note - Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any music book this year that isn't called Still In A Dream.... But I concede that there are some other interesti...3 weeks 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 month 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...5 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
The late Andy Gill was an exemplary journalist and had the keenest ears. I always enjoyed reading him in the UK's Independent newspaper.
ReplyDeleteLovely bloke too.
DeleteAnd I also enjoyed John Gill when he wrote for Time Out!
ReplyDeleteFaust were the Alternative TV of Krautrock. Bit cheapo.
ReplyDeleteAway with your iconoclasm!
DeleteThey really were though. That 99p Virgin sampler. The monochrome sleeves. That sense that the albums were cut from demo tapes.....
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