Zoom up with your zealous zillions as we zero in on the zenith of this zestful zone, zis last time zigzagging around the letter ‘z with anything ‘cultural’.

Frank Zappa – Horny

Zipping off with Zion Train – King of Sounds and Blues An infectious song I can’t help dancing to.

Yes, the yearlong yappy yearning to yank your yardstick for cultural contributions is nearly through. This penultimate plea is for Y.

Y not, indeed?

Art Young (one of the editors of The Masses, “…a full-fledged magazine of social protest in which editorial content and art joined in radical assault upon the social and political structure.” )

Your silent face – New Order Just beautiful, with that wry kick in the tail at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybT6TLlOdKI

X marks the spot for the 24th extraction and exhibition of excellent exponents of experimental expression for exploration.

Extol anything musical, artistic, cinematic, televisual, literary – all welcomed, no exceptions!

Jean Xceron – Portrait No. 61

First off, some uneasy ambient – Xtal by Aphex Twin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EahgKvEZA

As winters wends its way, what whimsical wonders will wheedle onto the ‘W’ thread? Music, art, films, books – all welcome.

John William Waterhouse – KT Tunstall?

Here’s my first – my favourite Wobble – Soledad

Another voyage into the vaults as this vacuous yet vaguely vivacious vanity project veers towards its vestigial verges. I’d value vital versions from voluble veterans as well as virginal visitors

Diego Velázquez – Arctic Monkeys: One for the Road

Lets get things started with something obvious: Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs

I unguently urge u to unearth and upload – anything cultural beginning with ‘u’ As ever, anything and everything will be gratefully received.

The Pyramid by Euan Uglow I can’t do better than agree with this quote – the “surface of a Uglow painting is beautiful. The frankness with which it reveals its constructions resonates as you read the continuum of form and space’

Ultramarine – Discovery This takes me back to hot summer days in the nineties. I learned recently that it quotes heavily from a Laurie Anderson song, which raises it even further in my estimation

The twentieth topic of tabling tempting treats from turntable, theatre, text, talkie – it’s ‘T’ time!

Turner turns my world around

Track 1 – June Tabor – 10, 000 Miles I love the timbre and austere sound of her voice, it penetrates so deep and scours the soul

Summer is shelved, shall we start the succeeding season with special selections of sensational sounds and sights? The compendium has now reached ‘S’ – show what you savour!. (I think I could almost live with just music from this letter).

Swann and Flanders, (as they weren’t known), sketched by Ronald Searle

I have to start with the Sisters, from back when they were inspired by Joy Division, not Walter White The Sisters of Mercy – Some Kind of Stranger

The return of the regular request to reply with a rendering from your repertoire of remarkable records This time it’S the pirates’s favourite – R

Anything, be it musical, litereary, cinematic, televisual, artistic – is much appreciated.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti with an ill-advised mis(s)adventure with a Chapman Stick…

To start, here’s Rammstein – Rosenrot – love their teutonic sensationalism.

The quest goes on to quarry out more quaint quantities of quality from your cultural quivers. This time, the quiz is on for the letter ‘Q’.

Here is Quentin Blake being surprisingly modern:

And my favourite Q has to be Quicksilver Messenger Service – here playing live – Mona

Putting together another piece in the partwork preparing for pride of place in your pedal bin, it’s the letter ‘P’. Please present any personal precious preferences below:

To push off, here’s Pablo

and Propaganda: (P-Machinery)

Oh joy! Once again, another OP inviting all sorts of favourite cultural clippage, this time with the theme ‘O’

So, step through Georgia O’Keefe’s magnificent O, and let’s gOOOOOO!

First from me is O Superman (the beginnning of my infatuation) -:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw

Now, the next node in the notebook of naming nurtured (musical) numbers, novels, etc. Here we go, everybody! Another fortnight of clips as the letter ‘n’ proudly presents itself for your inspiration and ridicule.

To my shame, the only artwork connected to the letter ‘n’ I could find was the cover of Rio, by Patrick Nagel – I’m sure there are others?

And here’s a song that should be uncontroversial: Nick Drake – Northern Sky

Mid-June and mid compendium – muddling the way through to ‘M’. More and more, this feels like a mindless meditation on a microcosm of the massive material out there.

Maybe, but you’ve been mighty magnanimous to mainline two weeks’ worth of alphabetical goodness 12 times this year. Care to continue? There’s mountains of marvelous melody out there!

(mid period Bob Dylan, c/o Edouard Manet)

Here’s a clip to get things started from a Word-friendly bunch:

The letter ‘L’ is the next stop on the leisurely lollop down alphabet lane, so load up any music, art, film, book or cultural artifact that looks like a long loved lodestone. (Bill Fris-ell by Gary Larson)

We are approaching the heart of the compendium, so melt into the trance of L.S:G. – possibly my favourite sound ever

The year moves on, and it’s time for another letter. Anything and everything you hold dear that starts with ‘K’, please!

Kicking off with the KLF – let’s build a fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4xpR2m2YtQ

You’ve been so forthcoming so far on this alphabetic odyssey – given lots to enjoy. That 10th letter of the alphabet is calling out for music, film, art, books, anything beginning with ‘j’. Take it away! . Here’s one of my favourite jovial pictures – by Augustus John: . And below is a fine old Scottish ballad, which seems appropriate right now – Just Like Honey:

I”d implore individual interests to introduce irrepressible ideas for this ninth trip into the Afterword Alphabet. It may be an irrelevant interlude, but I enjoy every comment posted, be it on music, film, art, literature, dance, whatever.

As long as it begins with ‘I’

Thanks for bearing with me and remember, on this virtual forum, It’s Immaterial:

https://youtu.be/HNGBB_nSwx4

The alphabet rolls on, and it’s now ‘H’. Post anything connected to the letter, not just music – happy to have heaps of highly honed horror films, hardboiled, humorous historical fiction, Hockneys, Holbeins, Hogarths, Hirsts, Hepworths.

Here’s one to start it off: Happy Mondays – Hallelujah

and some art by Howard Hodgkin:

Going forward (I know) to the next letter in the alphabet, please give generously to the glossary of good taste (?) in music, film, art, books, etc of any cultural goodies beginning with ‘g’.

Getting things started, here’s a guitarist by Gauguin: and Ghost Town:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmb4ZZ5pkY

The fortnightly feature for 2015, foisting fine fragments of culture, whether music, art, film, etc for each successive letter is here again. Will you find your love under the letter ‘F’?

Two weeks have gone by and it’s time once more for me to request your favourite contributions to the Afterword cultural encyclopaedia – anything, be it music, dance, art, sculpture as long as it begins with an ‘E’ – because everything starts with an ‘E’

Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

Please offer up any cultural artefacts with tenuous connection to the letter ‘D’.

Here’s Datblygu with Drug Addict (Rauschgiftsuchtige) to kick us off. Why? Because it’s excellent, gives us a Double D model*, and it mentions the great New York art music goddess herself. ____ The Damned – Disco Man The Dangerous Brothers World Of Danger All That Glitters – Death in Vegas Depth Charge – Shaolin Buddha Finger Devo – Jocko Homo (original version) Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town Deep Purple – Fireball Nothing Personal – Dust Junkys The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia Ian Dury – Sweet Gene Vincent Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the – Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full… Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Desmond Dekker & The Aces – “Israelites” Davey Graham – Medley: She Moved Thru’ the Bizarre/Blue Raga (He had it all but foolishly squandered it with Heroin, because he believed the ridiculous (prevalent at the time) notion that it would make him play better.) DR. FEELGOOD – Roxette Dead or » Continue Reading.

Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

Just two weeks further into the year of combing your collections of chanson, country, crooning, crunk, cinema, canvas creations and it was the turn for anything beginning with the letter ‘C’. We’d only just begun.

The Carpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun” Carmel – More More More Charlie Rich – Mohair Sam The Cure – Love Cats Camel – Lady Fantasy For Richard – Caravan (John Peel’s session) Coogan….wonderful The Alan Partridge Air Bass Dance Chagall Cezanne Christopher Brookmyre….great Scottish writer, looking forward to his new book “Dead Girl Walking” Goldfrapp – ‘Clay’ A railway poster from the 1930s by ‘Cassandre’ (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron). One of the great designers of the Art Deco period. Cassandre was also famous for his designs for Dubonnet and transatlantic passenger shipping lines. CABARET VOLTAIRE – SENSORIA Curve – Ten Little Girls Rush-“Clockwork Angels”-(In the binary world of Rush fans the steampunk concept Clockwork Angels from 2012 was their finest work, maybe since Moving Pictures, maybe ever. Okay then, ever!) robert calvert ejection 1974 Red Right Hand – Nick Cave » Continue Reading.

Reposting the contributions to first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.

I started ‘B’ by going Back to Basics with Billy Bragg and la la la la la means : the Saturday BOY (with bonus banter and badinage)

Billy Bragg, “The Saturday Boy” Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (live) Use Me – Bill Withers (1972) Bennett, Tony….no one, not even Nancy’s dad ,comes close. Beatles? Can’t post videos right now but a song called Strawberry Fields is pretty good Blur – Song 2 Jorge Ben – Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) B-52’s – Planet Claire Dierks Bentley – Drunk On A Plane Franco Battiato – Cuccurucucu The Bangles – Eternal Flame (La Flama Enterna) Big Bill Broonzy – Backwater Blues The Bad Plus – Lost Of Love Luther Vandross – A House Is Not A Home (Burt Bacharach) Biff Bang Pow, The Creation Brogues Guardian Guide. The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps Too Nice to Talk To – The Beat THE BEATINGS-Bad Feeling Brush strokes – Opening & Closing titles. Beastie Boys – Shambala-Bodhisattva Vow Francis Bacon and Melvyn Bragg Go on a Pub Crawl » Continue Reading.