I actually like this video; maybe it was supposed to be a medieval dance of death or something for a song about the arms race , but it looks quire fun. Not much to do with Canadian techno-pop though.

A bit 90s, but you may remember this.

On the reissue front, no one mentioned The Pink Floyd yet? ( EDIT: yes, you did! ) Two albums in 69, in the peak of their pastoral pop period. But they put everything in the archive onto the recent (overpriced) […]

I know, I know, what you mean: a subtext of the White Album reissue (including the publicity, the liner notes, and judicious choice of outtake banter) was that everything was really just dandy between the boys […]

Sorry to bump this thread, but I just downloaded Commercial Album and listening on the headphones, the remaster is clearly a needle drop: you can even discern the faint rumble between the tracks. I assumed The […]

Oh yeah; that “a glass and a half of milk in every half pound” was a cunning piece of advertising patter wasn’t it?

If this had been a novelty hit, it might have been called a ‘comedy song’, but it wasn’t so it probably isn’t, but neither is it (that) serious:’Deborah Harry, I’m having your baby…”

Unless a band released a song afterwards, I’m not sure I could remember what they played at a gig. But I do recall the unlucky 90s band Disco Inferno performed a few songs for a Radio 3 ‘Mixing It’ live conce […]

Thanks for this. I admit I had forgotten about them, but I suppose they were a missing link between the heavy drone rock of Loop and the Shoegazers.

I was born in 1970 so have to face the fact that my full teenage tears were spent in the 80s in suburban Essex. Didn’t feel comfortable at the time and grew to dislike the Thatcher effect, although I avoided its w […]

True that. Great psych-pop tune.

Simple Minds, as is well known, never cared for ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ because it was a cover rather than ‘their’ song. Moreover, the last I heard, they also turned against nearly all of their big 80s stadi […]

Yes, great review. I have both of these on vinyl and prefer Commercial Album, with its rather macarbre mood, but I will give Eskimo (or Inuit ?) another listen when these reissues turn up.

Bit of an obscurity from Swinging London:

It has been a good year for reissues, and I will vote tactically for the poll:

1: Wire, 154 ( best of their three great reissues)
2: The Residents, Meet the Residents ( Preserved edition). (came out early […]

Wow, remember when Glasvegas were Word favorites?

To be honest, I scrolled my iPod and notice that from 2008 I still listen to Portishead’s Third, Deerhoof’s Offend Maggie, and The Advisory Circle’s Other […]

Pink Floyd’s ‘More’ seems to be, uh, more enjoyable than Barbet Schroeder’s rather moralistic film.

The Left Banke (admittedly only two original albums to choose from anyway)
The Lovin’ Spoonful
The Monkees (?)
The Monochrome Set (“Volume, Contrast, Brilliance” is the best single album they did)

I like them both, but there is an element of surprise and restlessness in Cale’s career that makes him the more compelling.

I have Goat Girl and Gazelle Twin ( a surprising number one that is presumably there for topical purposes as much as anything); meaning to buy the Julia Holter when I can find a CD. Old fogey that I may be, I have […]