Yeah, at the UEA in 1991 Shane was too gone and sat out the gig after the first few songs: disappointing.

Simeone Coxe of the 60’s electronica heroes Silver Apples (and forgive me for saying this after his recent death); when he came out of retirement to play a club in Brighton in 1997 as a chance to see a cult legend […]

I think we are now moving into a period of the pandemic where medically-informed advice, however well-intentioned, urgent and rational, needs to be properly addressed by intelligent politics in order to retain […]

1: The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
2. Yo La Tengo – Electr-O-Pura
3. Can – Tago Mago
4. Van Der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts
5. Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume One

Radiohead( again). On paper, I should like them because of all the constituent parts and influences that go into their work, and their attitude to culture, but I have not enjoyed the albums nearly as much as my […]

And yet, the fourth studio album by The Fall is “Hex Enduction Hour”, which might be their best.

Before this thread disappears, I will add, if I may, Throwing Muses: fantastically inventive and prolific, with two great songwriters in the ranks, but not it seems an influence on younger musicians at all, and […]

Have an up.It’s an excuse to post this from 1967!

Thanks Moose: yes, I meant the CD86 anniversary compilation and not the famous cassette, which I never had.

On the subject of indie music, even I had forgotten about Stump, the quirky, Beefheart-imitators of Festive Fifty fame ( “Tupperware Stripper” etc). They played a lot of gigs 86-88, made the front covers of the […]

Yes, apparently they did sign to a major. I was also thinking of The Mighty Lemon Drops who did a cool single ( “ Like an Angel”) but then plodded along for a bit with a big label.

The Hollow Men, “Tales of the Riverbank” ( LP, Dead Man’s Curve Records, 1986). Like a bridge between Echo and the Bunnymen and The House of Love: never included on those 80s indie compilations, even as the likes […]

Eurocommunists Scritti Politti sang of “hegemony”, presumably from Antonio Gramsci, which is not a very rock’n roll word

Punk was also the final pop culture invention of the Baby Boomers, and they have held sway over media/academia/ music industry for enough time to make the year zero version the historical orthodoxy, although as […]

@Freddy Steady: Undoubtably pretentious, and maybe they haven’t aged so well , but they were a definite psychedelic turn to indie guitar pop with an ‘Afrofuturist’ thing. Taylor Parkes spoke up for them on an ep […]

Cheers!

Yes: saw him play Brighton at the ( original) Concorde Club In 1997 (?) and he was great, including the whimsical stuff.

A “Hendrix 1967” complete collection would seem to be in order as the two albums are pretty similar in technique and songwriting, and both were rather rushed into release; they could fit into a reasonable-length […]

A.R. Kane’s first two albums deserve another spot in the light I think, if only for critical re-evaluation, but other than a stray singles compilation there is no movement there.

And can I have a full-on r […]

Yes, that’s a good choice. Also, 1980s Sonic Youth is neglected: there was the super-deluxe Daydream Nation set some while ago, but Evol and Sister have seemingly disappeared.