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Tag: Music
“Shoegaze(r)” is more than an early-1990s English pop music genre. Come with me and explore the late 1980s and early 1990s on DDN-808AM … where shuffly beats, baggy trousers and fey looks are provided, plus complimentary NME.
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Les Fauves: “Self Abuser”
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2 min read
Third album, third song: this is where a rock band has to crush it, or hang up the Rickenbackers for good.
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Les Fauves: “Don’t Get Death Threats Anymore”
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2 min read
Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, bit where it stops for the riff, repeat song title, instrumental fade out.
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Les Fauves: “Big Brother Age”
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2 min read
My first reaction when I heard “Big Brother Age” in my Surry Hills sharehouse back in 1996 was relief.
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Les Fauves: “Marijuana is God’s Currency”
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4 min read
“Marijuana Is God’s Currency” hints at an alternative history of the Fauves, in which the band broke up after the failure of The Young Need Discipline.
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Les Fauves: “Dogs Are the Best People” Hater
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3 min read
By 1996 the Fauves had finally become huge in the eyes and ears of the general listening public.
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Les Fauves: “Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together”
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4 min read
“Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together” sums up a playful side of the Fauves’ music that was strangely absent from their recorded outputs at the time.
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Les Fauves: Dress Ups!
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3 min read
Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Fauves are the best people!
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3 min read
Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Preoccupations @ Petit Bain, Paris
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13 min read
A story at the interface between Australian cricket and Canadian doom rock.
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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13 min read
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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11 min read
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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We need to talk about Chris de Burgh’s lyrics.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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5 min read
My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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I remember Australian music in the 1980s
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8 min read
This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!
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Netflix series request: ‘You’re Killing Me’
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4 min read
You’re Killing Me, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band Pavement, and the band’s deadly feud with Mark E. Smith of The Fall, should really be streaming now on Netflix.