“King Frost”, illus.H. J. Ford, from Andrew Lang’s The Yellow Fairy Book (which my father’s mother always said was the best of the 12). I like him best in black and white…
Fairytale chat-up lines dept.
Would use A+ tick vg
In winter 1994 a bunch of those bands got together for a showcase in London: Disco Inferno’s chunk was the best gig I had ever seen. Live, the group’s samples no longer sat tensely at the edge of a track – they boiled over into cacophony and the gig became three men trying to control the noise they were making, turning the clutter into molten, thrilling, and hard-won pop. Afterwards, I bought Ian Crause a drink. He glumly dismissed my fannish ravings about his group and talked instead about how great the Byrds were. A few months later Disco Inferno split up.
Wrote about DI in the Guardian, specifically their Five EPs reissue, which is out next month and which I very strongly recommend you buy.
I think he also told us that he had been listening to A-Ha non-stop, which boded really well for Technicolour.
(via rocketsandrayguns)
Tom Ewing is the most reasonable man in music writing. (via jonathanbogart)
Yes!
““More than Queen, more than Maiden, more than B**** A**** even, this hit stank of the past, all the more strongly because so many people around me seemed to think it wasn’t the past. And so I find it very hard to listen to now – my dislike of it is still located in the vicious roil of being 17, semi-detached from the repetitive ramalama knock-off I hear when I put it on.””—
I suspect this is an unconvincing Popular entry, but it wasn’t really meant to convince. It’s about being 17, going to boarding school, and The Clash. It’s kind of a tangential intro to the One Week One Band entries I’ll be doing next week too, though I’m not saying who they’re about yet.
I have had this song rattling round my head since reading Tom’s post. Too many jags of recognition plus I think this is the Popular post in which I may have the largest walk-on part, if I’m remembering this incident right. The end of year report from my housemaster mentioned that he ‘enjoyed the affronted reaction’ to the review. Man, I was filled with misdirected anger in those days.
I agree with Jess and Matt P.
I agree with three people. But not the three who picked ArchAndroid.
Spoon - Anything You Want
So, I had a really difficult international conference call this at 8am morning. After it was over, I had to cry for a good ten minutes (just to get everything out of my system) before pulling myself together, getting dressed, and coming into the office for the rest of my day.
On the train ride in, I was feeling a little better after a chat with the adorable morning crew at Saraghina (who pretty much make EVERY morning better), but I knew that there was really only one thing that could truly be the ultimate salve for a bad morning: Spoon’s Girls Can Tell. And this song has the strongest healing powers of the lot.
co-sign. I think the real roots of my love for Spoon are co-extensive with the years I spent commuting to Glasgow. And yes, I know that sentence doesn’t really work. And that I have a good job I’m not wholly on board with so that when I hate it, I feel guilty about hating it.
New Guardian column! It’s not really about witch house though it’s “about” witch house. I wanted to do a column about the problems of genre which was written without the comfort blanket of an in-the-know tone. Whether I succeeded or not I dunno (especially as I’ve not checked the edit yet). This has something tangentially to do with Nitsuhs “whither underground?” link/conversation from earlier, too, I think.
I’m now listening to the Salem mixtape Tom mentions - it’s pretty good!
So I have totally become that guy who reads about the new underground sensation in the broadsheets six months late.
fuck yeah aghan whigs.
Obviously, the lesson may be, after reading a jillion opinions on the matter: whatever you were listening to when you were in the place Nathan Williams is now — that is what you hear.
OMG this actually works! I do hear The Senseless Things!!
I raise your Senseless Things by Mega City 4 with a touch of early Lemonheads!
