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I’ve gone down a Wire rabbit hole – more like a giant sinkhole, actually – of late, and there’s presently just too much to wrap my head around to try and compose some kind of meaningful post, so I won’t try just yet. Instead, here’s one of the band’s few official music videos – this […]
If there was a way to measure musical influence per second of recording, Wire’s “Outdoor Miner” would surely be in the 99th percentile. The original version, which appeared on 1978’s Chairs Missing, clocked in at an efficient 1:44 but would be one of the most-loved tracks by the massively influential outfit. Now that quotient drops […]
It’s not unreasonable to assume that a chart-topping single – even on the UK indie charts – in 1985 would have a video, given it was the MTV era. However if you were to go looking for the clip for “Primitive Painters”, Felt‘s luminous chart-topper from 1985’s Ignite The Seven Cannons, built on Maurice Deebank’s […]
It’s quite a thing for a single song to be given credit for creating not just a musical genre, but an entire subculture but these are things that are attributed to Bauhaus’ 1979 debut single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, aka the song which begat goth. PopMatters ran a piece on the song’s importance and influence on […]
I’m very disappointed in myself that at almost four months into running this blog, I’ve only had one post dedicated to The Chameleons; after all, my ongoing obsession with the band was one of the factors that made me want to start blogging again. And so, here’s one of the choicest bits of Chameleons content […]
I’ve seen and shot a lot of live music photographs, but this photo of Siouxsie & The Banshees on stage in Sweden in 1982, shot by Jill Furmanovsky through John McGeoch’s Yamaha SG 1000, just stopped me in my tracks. Breathtaking. “The live silhouette shot was taken at around 9pm just as the band came […]
This probably ad-libbed birthday song from The Cure’s May 1980 show at Scala in Herford, West Germany was directed to bassist Simon Gallup on the eve of his 20th birthday, but we’ll turn it around today to wish Robert Smith a happy 62nd birthday today.
Boston’s Sweeping Promises made a lot of noise with their debut Hunger For A Way Out last Summer, its combination of post-punk nerviness, strong pop hooks, and old-school, lo-fi college rock hitting a lot of peoples’ sweet spot. If you weren’t one of those won over by it, you probably just didn’t hear the record’s […]
I got a promo copy Colossal Youth, the landmark debut album and blueprint for minimalist pop from Cardiff’s Young Marble Giants’, on the occasion of its 2007 release as Colossal Youth & Collected Works and of course, I didn’t listen to it. But I did keep it when many other promos disappeared to who knows […]
Simon was actually more of a folky, Iron & Wine kind of guy but he appreciated all the meats of the musical stew in our household. This mix of three versions of The Cure’s moper – there’s their January 1981 John Peel session, the Faith studio version released in April 1981, and a live version […]
