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So I’ve been somewhat obsessed with Bernard Butler’s guitar tone since the first Suede record, and thanks to some guitar magazine interview circa then I’ve been convinced since, like, 1994 that his lead tone was the product of some esoteric and expensive ’60s Japanese fuzz pedal and spent no small amount of time over the […]
This Cure classic from 1980 was the subject of one of my first posts, but it’s a track that merits further examination. To that end, here’s a ridiculously in-depth piece at Sound On Sound from December 2004 with Mike Hedges. It covers his history with the band – he engineered their first record Three Imaginary […]
Books can be written about the mythology around the creation of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless – and at least one has – but while it’s easy to think of a record as singular and otherworldly as emerging from some extra-dimensional wormhole, it was in fact recorded with conventional audio technology in the late ’80s/early ’90s […]
It’s probably a sign of aging when one’s favourite song from Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 opus Ocean Rain transitions from the dramatic and brooding “Killing Moon” to the elegant and elegiac title track. I’m not saying I’m there now, but I’m not saying I’m not. There’s enough love in my heart for both tracks. […]
The first single from Cocteau Twins’ masterpiece Heaven Or Las Vegas, released August 27, 1990. Posted for no other reason than it is majestic, or as an excuse to share the fact that their website is very up to date and very thorough with archival material.
Because I’m that kind of nerd, back in the day (the days in question being the ’90s), I would spend an inordinate amount of time both hunting down back issues of American and British guitar magazines and waiting for new issues of same to come out, mostly hoping for coverage of or better, song transcription […]
I was going to use this image on another post but went in another direction with that. But since I had already gone into my photo archives and re-processed it and hey – it’s my blog I can do what I want – I’ll just put it up on its own. This is Jenny Lee […]
I need to get back to my original intent of dropping quick bits of whatever without lots of commentary, so here’s the video for Lush’s second single, released October 15, 1990, and included in their not-their-first-album-but-generally-regarded-as-their-first-album Gala. I’d actually never seen this vid nor the original single art before putting this post together, so we’ll […]
Nottingham’s Six By Seven hit the scene in the late ’90s with a blend of psych/Kraut/post/punk/prog/space-rock that was timeless yet completely out of step with the musical trends of the times. Their 1998 debut The Things We Make was a study in drone and tension and the 2000 follow-up, The Closer You Get, remains one […]
Even though Robert Smith is on Twitter, he’s more about retweeting commentary on politics than chatting music (or maybe just avoiding questions on where the next Cure album is) so it fell on founding member and former drummer Lol Tolhurst to offer commentary on their 1982 record Pornography for #TimsTwitterListeningParty last October. The Cure / […]
