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find it so culturally closed as just to me baffling
Not denying this might be true at times, but how is it more culturally closed than criticism from anywhere else? (My inclination would be to think that Brit-crit tends to be
way more closed culturally than U.S. crit. But then I'm not a non-American, obviously.) (And Christgau's been an apostle for world music for decades, to the point that people make fun of him for it! Though yeah, he can be a bit of a Francophobe when it comes to Daft Punk reviews. And he has defended his American-centricism on occassion, if that's what you mean; hell, blues and jazz and country and rock'n'roll and hip-hop being invented here oughta count for
something, right? Or am I missing your point?)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Brit-crit tends to be way more closed culturally than U.S. crit.
Though, I dunno, more reggae may have shown up on late '80s
N.M.E. and
Melody Maker year-end lists than in Pazz & Jop. That was a long time ago, though. Now it's all Brit-pop, "innit"?
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
thirteen years pass...
I didn't know this thread existed. I feel a little self-conscious if I post a link here to a Zoomcast or to something I've written--Frank was posting whole reviews of his book!
I downloaded that Stars Vomit Coffee Shop cassette a while back--seems to have gone on Bandcamp in 2016.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
Didn't know that 'til I read it here; thanks for the tip.
I asked Frank about it after seeing this thread, and he says:
Zach’s a guy who had his own label, OSR, in Brooklyn* for a while and decided to do a reissue of Stars Vomit Coffee Shop. I’m sure it cost him far more than he made from it, though we actually put it together out here: I’d already done a transfer to digital and I guess what they call a remaster several years prior, and my friend Nathan at Denver Disc duplicated the discs for Zach at a discount.
I put up the old liner notes and a few new comments when the reissue came out:
https://koganbot.livejournal.com/362896.html
And, unrelated to Zach, I’d done a digital transfer of England’s Newest Hit Makers at the same time as SVCS, and as luck would have it a Leslie Singer fan by the name of Hal McGee decided in 2018 or so to stream Leslie’s early music and videos online, with Leslie’s help and permission. He’s created a very handsome site, with notes and archival photos and posters. Anyhow, here’s the link to Your Mom Too’s England’s Newest Hit Makers. I recommend you listen to the individual songs since those use my (relatively) higher-quality digital transfer, rather than the stream of the cassette at the top of the site, the cassette being a duping generation or two down in fidelity.
http://www.haltapes.com/your-mom-too.html
Also, I did the camera work and gave advice and encouragement on a couple of Leslie’s videos, Hot Rox and Smokie: Portrait of a Glitter Babe, which you can find if you scroll down here. They’re quite brilliant:
http://www.haltapes.com/gof-videos.html
And you should check out the other of her vids too, obviously.
The general site that links the rest of her tapes is here. Girls On Fire was the name Leslie used on much of her music.
http://www.haltapes.com/girls-on-fire.html
In any event, I don’t think anyone else has ever made music that sounds quite like Your Mom Too, especially the great “My Couch.”
*But I see that Zach moved to Brussels last year!
Still got all the above music on tapes: good fun stuff, not quite (at *least* quite)like anything else.
― dow, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link