Incus had a better logo than Ogun's ho-hum African Mask: a bone in the ear, but it also looked like a small dog looking over its shoulder at us, having just done a big poo. Fraid I always found this amusing.
― mark s, Saturday, 12 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Simon, Saturday, 12 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. Roberts' review of the first Sundays LP, January 1990
2. Reynolds' interview with Lloyd Cole, February 1990
They can go down in history for that. And the other stuff, of course.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr.C, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― geordie racer, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Taylor Parkes, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― masonic boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Given the state of the indie music scene, I don't think they have a lot of options besides writing about chart music to a certain extent.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― masonicboom, Wednesday, 16 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Problem is: people above were lionizing Simon Price of all People!! I am a culture-vulture when it comes to biographies/journalism: Simon Price's book on the Manic Street Preachers was the worst pile of drivelin history of all hacking. There's a line in that book where he describes Riichey Manic's increased popularity in 1994. Price quote: "It was a case of OH WE DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SUICIDE."Is that 'so bad its good'/ or maybe somthing very very poor indeed? Email me your answers.
― Nicola Strain, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
However, his articles in the Melody Maker could be pretty witty and insightful.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― flowersdie, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lemmy Caution, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jennifer, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Karl J Kretzschmar, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h(0wie), Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the chimefox, Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
This is just terrific. From 1957:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862551,00.html
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates"
!!!
― grandma: smells and textures :: 180 (dayo), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that's brilliant
and the writer doesn't even get a credit?!
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Howard Phillips Lovecraft?
― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
just got reminded of this piece (i think i first read it in a de capo) by slate's longform thing:
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/200401/rock-music-jesus?printable=true
always loved that piece. my fave part:
Belief and nonbelief are two giant planets, the orbits of which don't touch. Everything about Christianity can be justified within the context of Christian belief. That is, if you accept its terms. Once you do, your belief starts modifying the data (in ways that are themselves defensible, see?), until eventually the data begin to reinforce belief. The precise moment of illogic can never be isolated and may not exist. Like holding a magnifying glass at arm's length and bringing it toward your eye: Things are upside down, they're upside down, they're right side up. What lay between? If there was something, it passed too quickly to be observed. This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it—many were—it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping into a circle, one that closes with you inside. If this seems to imply that no apostate was ever a true Christian and that therefore, I was never one, I think I'd stand by both of those statements. Doesn't the fact that I can't write about my old friends without an apologetic tone just show that I never deserved to be one of them?
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
he's the best. in the u.s. there are none better. at what he does.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
nobody even comes close.
He just wrote a good essay on Cuba.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
link? i'm up for reading a good essay on Cuba.
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/where-is-cuba-going.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Uh, I thought that Cuba article meandered and ultimately did not say too much new and insightful (I got bored with it and may have missed something. Although admittedly I was trying to read it after having finished the David Carr interview with Neil Young in the same issue, so maybe I need to give it another shot).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't finish the cuba thing either. will finish later. though yeah not my fave thing by him. i read the neil young thing the other day and thought it was really boring. neil is kinda boring.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I liked it a bunch, especially the interaction between him and the in-laws.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, seemed like a good collection of illustrative anecdotes; I also liked his description of wondering what his daughter would think of being Cuban and what that would mean for difference between them.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose I can't separate my feelings from it.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
How dare you be Cuban. (Loved your blog response to it.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
aw thanks!
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
he kinda blamed cuban exiles in miami for inadvertently keeping castro in power, no? the whole thing is ridiculous. this country is ridiculous.
no, the family stuff was good, and if you have roots there i can definitely see it being illuminating. i just don't think its his strongest piece. and it DOES meander and ramble.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
link to blog here, als.
http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/our-men-in-havana/
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Nice.
The photos of Cuba in the NY Times piece were gorgeous.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ yes
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
As long as we're talking Cuba -- and this has to do with music too!
http://gawker.com/5943543/the-punks-on-g-street-tracking-cubas-rebellious-youth-50-years-after-the-revolution
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/38958539772/one-direction-little-things-did-you-know-that
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
what i love best about this is her mastery of the tone of mingled disgust and desire and delight, of hyperbolic ambivalence, WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN, #everythingisembarrassing: it's a language i've only seen women use, on tumblr (and before that, a little, on livejournal). I've heard it spoken a bit but only by people already familiar with the internet use. That feeling of being personally affronted by your own reactions - whether to a song, a band, a person - of being aghast at yourself and overjoyed by it, of something that requires high-flown and/or extreme description that's simultaneously 100% serious and 100% facetious.
a language in which you can describe a person as wearing "gravely upsetting tank tops"! a language in which it is possible to express the fact that a song that you kind of despise is precisely the song that affects you the most.
― c sharp major, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah isabel's one of my favorite writers, i wish she did it professionally or regularly in some capacity. whenever she tries it's just O_O
― passive-aggressive dn change (zachlyon), Friday, 28 December 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
this piece on pfork from years ago has turned into something fairly influential on the direction of my music interests ever since, and by proxy my life.
shoutout to nitsuh. i know they used to post here. definitely one of the best pieces i've ever read.
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link