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Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Late Summer Edition: Belbury Poly, Fil OK, Jamie Sexton, Brutalist Ghost Stories, Hauntology and Spectrality Group, Lawrence English, Regina Collage, Space Afrika, Conflux Coldwell, Luke Haines, Realm of Dusk - August is the deadest month.And somehow, even though you've been here so many times before, you're never prepared for the way that each week feels deade...15 hours ago
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A Telex from yesterday's future - An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics compulsively position and reposition things they like, or are unim...1 day ago
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Michel Gondry - Snowbound (1993) - Peak pop video? Probably not (some of the most expensive promos were made during the late '90s, the Hype Williams era - e.g. Busta and Janet's astoun...1 day ago
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The Shit Songs By _______ (a series: 1 of ?? - The Doors) - Every great band has shit songs. It's mystifying - you would think greatness would be like a tap, you could just turn it on and out it comes. You wou...2 days ago
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RIP Frank Beard - Would you believe, I have actually written about ZZ Top? I reviewed their *Greatest Hits* along with a Lynyrd Skynyrd box set. *ZZ TOP, Greatest HitsMe...5 days ago
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anti-theatricality in politics (the theatre kid trope) (the bling king) (the throne of illusion) - Sometimes you get a bonanza - and so it with this Atlantic piece about the the new right-wing insult-trope of "theatre kid" "The White House assistant pr...5 days ago
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Of Instagrammatology (slight return) (the eternal returns of....) (unOriginal Mix) - My Instagram keep throwing up reels of *Charlotte de Witte*, who apparently is one of the biggest deejays in the world. I thought I'd check out her stu...2 weeks ago
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Epigoners (Honorable and Less Honorable) (not-so-slight return) - In the comments to the previous post about *Robyn Hitchcock* and his epigonic attempt to perpetuate 1967... *Phil Knight* mentioned that there was quite...4 weeks 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”...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
Have to admit, I miss cranky geezers who are willing to be quoted talking shit about crap records. Everybody today is so inoffensive and humorless that even a minor slight is blown up on social media into a feud. Let's really give them something to talk about!
ReplyDeleteThe source of the famous "trendy hippies" put-down of Human League.
DeleteOdd that as someone who covered Small Faces songs in the Pistols and also included them (i think, anyway) in his famous Capital Radio show of 1977, they are referred to as "Small Phaeces". (Great mispelling).
It's very much like his legendary appearance on Jukebox Jury where he's sour and unpleasant about every single record. Actually gets a bit grating as shtick after a while.
How many of these opinions are his honest thoughts? Judging from his general taste, I thought he'd be sympathetic to Suicide and the Desperate Bicycles.
ReplyDeleteYeah I was surprised by the response to Suicide. desperate bicycles, less so
DeleteJohnny gives the people what they want. I imagine he would've been digging righteous JA sounds to the exclusion of everything else at this time. I remember tuning in for the episode of Jukebox Jury, and the expectant tittering among the audience. Joan Collins was on it too, IIRC. Rotten was my role model around this time - him and Dennis the Menace.
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