The Cure – “A Forest”, live at Werchter Festival, 1981
A very young, three-piece Cure perform the Seventeen Seconds classic in Belgium in July 1981.
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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
Blue Monday is not a thing but “Blue Monday” is.
A reminder that anything you see today about the third Monday in January being the saddest day of the year is nonsense created by an advertising cohmpany to promote travel bookings, and that the joke is absolutely on them this year. Or it would be if the company that solicited the campaign was still in […]
Searching For The Sundays
The Sundays’ debut album Reading, Writing & Arithmetic turns 31 years old today, and so I grudgingly salute the bands ability and willingness to remain disappeared completely after wrapping their Static & Silence tour in December 1997. Aside from some Record Store Day releases of their three albums in the last few years that sell […]
Brian Eno’s “The Big Ship” and Me and Earl and The Dying Girl
Even relative to his immensely otherworldly and experimental discography, Brian Eno’s Another Green World stands out as an especially magical record (Fripp!). And I’m not too embarrassed to admit that I was led into exploring Eno’s solo work – particularly the more conventional rock/vocal records of the ’70s – through a movie soundtrack. “The Big […]
Iterations: David Bowie’s “Absolute Beginners”
“Absolute Beginners” is one of my favourite Bowie songs, and one I fear gets unjustly overlooked in the general “everything after ‘Scary Monsters’ is bad” narrative that gets applied to his ’80s output. I mean, yes, his studio albums of the era aren’t great, but if you get into the singles and soundtrack contributions, there’s […]
Choux – “Super Moon”
Choux are a Canadian-American duo comprised of Montreal’s Lizzie Carolan and Minneapolis’ Jordan Gatesmith. The title track of their 2020 debut mini-album cops some ridiculous Elizabeth Fraser vibes and while the rest doesn’t go so straight Cocteaus, it’s beautiful dream-pop, front to back.
Slowdive’s Souvlaki on Pitchfork Classic
I was very excited when Pitchfork released this video some five years ago, but assumed it was a short “explainer”-type video and didn’t bother watching it after bookmarking. Turns out it’s almost an hour-long, slickly-produced proper documentary of maybe my favourite all-time album*. So that was an unexpected treat. * for right now, anyways