I appreciate that it is an aggregate rather than a specific poll, but that is a conspicuously “Generation X” -style chart (lots of 90s and 00s); much more than any of the UK rock mags would likely publish. Interesting.

Amon Duul II, Archangel Thunderbird: the guitarist comes in too late after the breakdown at 2.10. He had one job to do,,,

More 808 State: this performance is a bit of a mess and squanders the cool glaze of the single, but I remember watching this.

The Stones’ “Paint It, Black” (as it says on the earliest pressings, although I cannot link to a photo right now) seems very unfortunate because by adding a comma to make the phrase vocative, it sounds racist. […]

Austurbaejarbio Is The Fall’s equivalent of the John Coltrane Live in Japan Album: an untypical lineup of the group pushing the stops out for a new audience and achieving something extraordinary. Try to hear it i […]

Japanese 1980s AOR or “City Pop” is currently trendy: Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love” became a YouTube re-discovery. But Minako Yoshida’s “Midnight Driver” (1980) is better

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.