Third week bingeing on whatever Magazine I can find.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
How do you rate them? I never connected with the reunion album.
Of the subsequent non-Magazine stuff that Howard did, there's good bits on his solo "Jerky Versions Of The Dream" and the two Luxuria albums but none of them are consistent enough for me to enjoy fully.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/04/post-punk-guitarist-john-mcgeoch-magazine-siouxsie-sioux
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Anybody get this yet?
The Light Pours Out of Me: The Authorised Biography of John McGeochRory Sullivan-Burke
John McGeoch was the unsung hero of the post-punk era. Blazing a trail with some of Britain’s biggest bands and most revered artists – Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Armoury Show and Public Image Ltd. – John left an undeniable and indelible mark on music.
The Light Pours Out of Me examines John’s life and legacy, drawing on original interviews with the likes of Siouxsie Sioux, Howard Devoto, Johnny Marr, Billy Idol, John Frusciante, Keith Levene, Jonny Greenwood, Nick Launay, Ed O’Brien, Peter ‘Hooky’ Hook and many others.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
xxpost I haven't heard the reunion album but love the first three very much. Digging on older live sessions I can find, too.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
I really don't think that the fourth album has any bad songs, but the sound is often very harsh.
I think Luxuria's Beast Box is his best non-Magazine release. I saw the video for "The Beast Box is Dreaming" when it came out, but couldn't get into the record at the time. Now I particularly like the "torch songs" or ballads; Devoto is not as tormented as he was in the Magazine days, but there's just as much wit and perception in the lyrics and singing.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
magic murder and the weather may actually be my secret favourite, tho i haven't revisited any of them for a long while
i used slightly to know ben mandelson, mcgeoch's replacement -- he co-ran a record company whose records i often reviewed, and he was both a nice person and a very folk-scholarly person, which was probably not quite the right vibe for magazine but i liked it myself
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
awake much of the night with truly astonishing dental pain (on antibiotics, direct to root canal when I get home from work but work mean travel and I've got several days yet to go) and the music of magazine specifically the secondhand daylight album is helping. ty magazine, top group
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 20 January 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
Check out "Seconds to Last" by Colin Newman for more explicitly dental-themed post-punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fME8qjXbV1I
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 January 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link