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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
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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