I wasn’t planning to post another of these so soon – but I came across this quote and, frankly, couldn’t resist.
Since the previous quote was so short and open-ended, this verbose verbiage (sic) should be a piece of cake – so I’m expecting a winner this time around!
Here’s an extract from a review published in the NME.
No clues: no year, no journalist name – and I’ve redacted some giveaway words.
Which album do you think is being reviewed?
“(…) have reduced themselves, or extended themselves, to selling bittersweet fantasies and seductive happy endings, making music where the nostalgic tendencies are impossibly correct, the modern moments ironically obvious and the moods delicately (remotely) controlled.”
And the mood delicately (remotely) controlled
FFS
What a load of tosh. Sorry no idea Fitters , but I will be interested know who wrote it so my derision can be better targetted.
Well, quite…it might be easier for the contemporaneous readers to guess the journalist than the band.
Paul Morley left the NME in 1983. Roxy Music’s Avalon was released in 1982. How many happy endings are there on Avalon? Flesh + Blood might be a better bet.
Are you confident that it’s Morley, Tiggs?
The “being verbose for the sake of it” certainly points that way, which means for this review it probably isn’t PM holding the pen
I think it’s too “on stilts” to be Morley, whose irritating enthusiasms were equalled only by his illiteracy, It’s one of the post-1980 crowd, just before the semiologists took over.
Everything But The Girl? Idlewild?
“On stilts”, HP?
Is it The Buggles – The Age Of Plastic?
I love the Age of Plastic. It’s a great album, no filler at all.
Prefab Sprout… and …. Jordan: The Comeback?
Not quite sure why. Something to do with nostalgic tendencies and modern moments, I think.
That sounds like a good shout to me…
My guess is Spirit of Eden, Talk Talk.
Got it! The first Johnny Hates Jazz album.
There were more? And wasn’t the review a pithier “And I hate Johnny!”. Should have been.
Four albums apparently!
I’ll post the answer in a few hours (I need to step out for a bit) – so, if anyone has a lightbulb moment, there’s still time (always assuming, of course, that it’s not already been posted above – which I will neither confirm nor deny).
Is it Nazi Punks F*ck Off! by the Dead Kennedys?
I’m seeing a pattern in your recent choices, Mr Fenton…
Dollar?
The reveal:
The album being reviewed was Flesh + Blood by Roxy Music
The journalist was Paul Morley, writing in the NME in June 1980
@Tiggerlion carries the day – getting both the reviewer and the album correct. He wins a replica Eno lamé glove, as soon as the gold spray paint dries on the Marigold®
Yay! I’ve always wanted an Eno glove for my collection.
My carnation is being FedExed to you as we speak, Tig. Wear it with pride!
I’d rather have the glove thank you very much.
You can pour HP’s Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk into it.
Hmmm, not so good an image, if the “milk” is associated with the inserted stem. A most unsavoury image. Bad memories of being asked to milk the prostate of an elderly patient. (And no, that’s not an euphemism….)
Afterword bottom slogan (can’t remember what the real name is, that’ll do)
The Afterword 2024 – milking the prostates of elderly patients since 2012
“Bottom slogan” – arf!
On a similar theme, I had a FB advert for paint yesterday, from a company new to the UK called, um, Gonad Gloss.
“Transform your home with our high-quality, premium finish coloured gloss. Multi-coloured gloss with a fun twist.”
It isn’t clear if the paint is sourced from, or to be applied to, the ‘nads. The one pictured is British Racing green.
I think the green is called Green Fingered, the white is called Pearl Necklace and Bluenis Navy Seaman.
I think we can see where this is going.
Maybe @Retropath could suggest Pensioner’s Milky Prostate to them for an off-white colour.
That reminds me, Aveda sell a moisturiser called ‘Hand Relief’…
Now that I know the album, it seems spot on..
I think it was good of us to hold back so Tigs could win something.
That’s terribly kind of you. You are all heart.