Recent content by GuyMercier

the Wire is the ultimate bourgeois read it's so out of touch well, the last time I saw it...

the eternals ? well, I wanted to like them and the sleeve is great, the record has a few great tracks but I keep not wanting to listen to it again the records that really moved me so far this year were the last Destroyer which is bound to become a classic, the Double's Palm Fronds which was so...

I suggest you read "the sound of the city" by charlie gillett and jon savage's "england's dreaming"

"hounds of love" on the futureheads album is a cover of Kate Bush

it is the truth look I don't want to go into the details of a very technical debate I found this skimming the surface http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=375592 but specially this paragraph describes my own experience: Also important in this discussion is the inclusion of the...

dunno if he's from Mississipi but Hound Dog Taylor was great and I love the first George Thorogood record mmm, I guess I'm astray here

I'm Jandek

can't remember having played the 1st one more than 1/2 a time and I would not retry it... not the same with oxide and neutrino (or whatever, I forgot the exact name) which I have fond memories of for some reason!

having a great record collection is not the result of record collecting. I have one (die radierer, a german band) pic disc, maybe two (an oxbow LP I think) if I was a record collector I'd have much more of those I guess... what I mean is that I'm not driven by the collecting aspect I'm driven by...

yes, it does sound very interesting. it is debatable that social change is or isn't always produced by a small milieu which somehow gains power over the masses

and we could rename this forum "consensus"

I'm not a collector of anything, I buy records cause I like them and they are how music is supposed to be received according to the guys that do them. I'm not into "lifestyles" either, I'm not into MP3s and consumer electronics, ... etc!

I don't see any problem there IMHO it's a perfectly sane (and desirable, I'd add) position to do your stuff without any thought about the audience. that's the main drag with blogs: too much energy misspent in trying to get attention from people who shouldn't be around you at all death to audience!

MP3 is an inferior format for music having a folder (or a burnt cd) of an album on your hard drive is NOT having a music record it's like having a b+w 3" repro of the mona lisa instead of the real thing so my points are 1) MP3s are for suckers that are not interested in the music 2) the music...

yes, me. I really dug that record and I dig maurice fulton's productions of !!! I don't hear the influences that were mentioned, it stands on its own dunno if I would buy another one though