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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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Animal Collective live in Leuven and Stockholm
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12 min read
Documenting my Animal Collective journey, from 2008 to 2012.
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Early-1990s UK indie bands: The definitive list
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13 min read
1990s UK indie bands were the best bands.
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Back in 2011, I took one of my many trips down Amnesia Lane. A little bit like this one, in fact. I decided to create a list of all the great UK indie bands from the early 1990s. The problem was, I wasn’t an expert at all, and I’d never lived in the UK. But…
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We’ve moved on, actually
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2 min read
You seem to believe that you have a right to live in a world where you still get paid one thousand times a day or even more for the three chords you banged out (by accident, might I add) on an ageing Casio synth in 1986, & which later on was used as an obscure…
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Djungel
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1 min read
This sound, that stinks of dirty sneakers (never boots, they’re meant for da smeris speaks of djungel, uprooted flowerpots (never flares, maybe strobelight analysis strewn across the asfalt like the remains (not the actual remains, mind, but echoes of tribal war, racial war – bloooood! Yeah, (not just like Junior Reid, more an actual song…
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Ten women who shook my world*
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2 min read
In celebration of International Women’s Day, here’s some Youtube gold from some of my favourite women musical artists from the late 1980s and early 1990s. First up, Bilinda Butcher sings My Bloody Valentine‘s certified indie-dance crossover shredder, ‘Soon’.
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Thomas Mars on Radiohead lyrics and magnets
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1 min read
We’re fascinated with the idea of every word fitting perfectly with every chord so it creates a new standard of beauty . . . It’s almost like Radiohead are using those word magnets. That’s my worst fear — the magnet thing . . . Thomas Mars of Phoenix
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Chris de Burgh on Iran
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1 min read
Recent events in Iran have filled me with shock and mounting horror, and I send my heartfelt sympathies and support to all my friends and fans there who may have been caught up in what has become a huge international story. Many people all over the world have reacted with anger and dismay at what…
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Chris de Burgh: Crusader (1979)
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5 min read
Eagle-eyed readers would already be aware of my previous tutorial, wherein I demonstrated the art of writing a one hundie, two hundie, three hundie and therefore five hundie record review. In this tutorial, using the ‘find and replace’ function, I show how this template can be used to write a review of any other band…
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As I was only just saying, the November 2008 issue of Time Out Amsterdam features not one but two chunks of text by meh. While both were about music, only the second, a review of the untold Microcastle album by Deerhunter, was based on music I had actually heard, and liked.
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Pop lyrics: do they really matter?
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6 min read
Here’s an interesting post by Laurie Duggan on the wall of sound, where he makes the point that the vocal track on My Bloody Valentine’s song ‘Come In Alone’ works because of the wall of sound surrounding it. While I think this is true, a closer inspection of the lyrics to these kinds of songs…
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Lee Ranaldo: Hello from the American Desert
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11 min read
How can a book review capture a live concert experience?
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OMG I heart Darryl
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Murmur (1983)
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5 min read
A fictional response to REM’s debut LP album.
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Chris de Burgh: At the End of a Perfect Day (1977)
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11 min read
I’ve been flat out digging through the online archives of the Chris de Burgh website, in particular the vast wealth of information contained within the Man On the Line (MotL) section, wherein Chris personally responds to questions and queries. While, unfortunately, the MoTL section has now been deleted from the website, thanks to the wonderful…