In Japan, Mojo and Uncut are the only regular English music magazines to be widely available ( I don’t count Rolling Stone) and while I enjoy both, they are certainly struggling with the diminishing returns of r […]

In the early 90s, Manchester’s odd boys out The New Fast Automatic Daffodils were never better than on “Big”.

Regarding the interview, he agrees to meets someone from a much younger generation who appears to say how much she has been moved in her life by his music, and his only reaction Is derision. “Irascible G […]

The Slits’ “Instant Hit” is about Sid Vicious, as is, um, “Sid Vicious is Dead” by Some Product. “Julian said how was the gear” in The Fall’s “Two Steps Back” refers to a pre-fame Julian Cope, apparently.

Probably their finest three minutes: not on the album, and their last single for Creation Records. .

I once read, probably in Mojo, that the guys in the bar were genuinely horrible people, drinkers recruited for the day, and there was a nasty edge to the whole filming of it.

Is this thread still going? Dr Feelgood:

She does it right
Roxette
Keep it out of sight
All through the city

Good call. FOABP is a great album but was a lousy LP.

A quirk I notice about discussing prog-rock is how often fans will exempt their favorite group (especially VDGG or Henry Cow) by claiming they were never really prog in the first place; there has been such a […]

The absence of Roberto Bolano’s novel ‘2666’ is a huge oversight, in my opinion. It has already become.a popular academic talking point since 2004.

Rome and Benidorm.

In the last fifteen years or so, Ghost Box Records have promoted the UK “hauntology”, weird electronica aesthetic very well in both music and label design, although the artists (Belbury Poly, Focus Group, […]

And, if 70s vibraphone psychedelia is you son’s bag ( and that is bloody cool) he must already know Poli Palmer with Family , like this?

Yeah, Patto. This song is iffy but the vibraphone part near the end made a great sample for the Andy Vogel Vertigo mash-up album some years ago.

From the great PSF staple of bands

Porridge (The Movie) is, I think, the one 1970s comedy spin-off that really stands up, because of Ronnie Barker / Fulton Mackay squaring off in the Clement and Le Frenais screenplay. Otherwise, I get […]

Mention above of The Creation reminds me of some vinyl greatest hits that capture a more minor group in a better light than a longer set, especially when they had good sleeve notes.

Electric Prunes- Long Day’s F […]

Tim Buckley’’s Monterey, on Star Sailor, is an anguished and pent-up performance of hurt and frustration until Buckely overreaches himself and lets out a sort of yodel that sounds like a Jimmy Saville imp […]

The Simon and Garfunkel Collection (the one with the photo of them on the beach)
The Kinks, Ultimate Collection.
The Doors, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine ( the original ‘deep cuts’ collection)

I read that the sixties psychedelic legends The Misunderstood used to perform a long spacerock piece, “The Trip to Inner Space,” at their gigs in 1966- 67 but no one ever recorded it.

On a related issue, the […]