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nomos

nomos

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matt b said:
i have to say the piece on mark stewart is shit. its a prime example of interviewer ramping up their own POV regardless of what the interviewee has actually said. and i'm not anti k-punk, but crikey, i was cringing reading the article.

mark's other reviews in the issue were good, as was his burial piece, so i hope it was an aberation.
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haven't seen this issue but i felt some of that reading the underground resistance piece. i don't know UR that well but the marxist analysis attributed to them sounded more like mark's blog than anything i've heard in the music. otherwise a very good piece, especially the sonic fiction discussion, but it seemed to break his cardinal rule against speaking for the music.
 
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nomos said:
haven't seen this issue but i felt some of that reading the underground resistance piece. i don't know UR that well but the marxist analysis attributed to them sounded more like mark's blog than anything i've heard in the music. otherwise a very good piece, especially the sonic fiction discussion, but it seemed to break his cardinal rule against speaking for the music.
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wel writers that are good apply ideas to music, what did you want a discussion of the synths they use or something - also parts of what he said were readily backed up with facts and discussion.
 
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mms said:
wel writers that are good apply ideas to music
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well obviously. and i'd hardly be one to argue that a writer shouldn't engage music conceptually/theoretically.

mms said:
, what did you want a discussion of the synths they use or something
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:p no just midi transcriptions and a genealogy of influences

mms said:
- also parts of what he said were readily backed up with facts and discussion.
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possibly, i'd have to go back to it. but i had a distinct feeling after reading that, at times, he was putting his blog posts in mad mike's mouth. that's different. it can be subtle, but there's a line. seems to me that's exactly the sort of gripe that ccru/eshun had with british cult studs.

anyway, i'm not saying it dominated the piece - which, as i said, was very good - but it was lurking in the corners
 
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childrentalking

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anybody else notice that a particularly overwrought line from Fisher's Mark Stewart interview made it into Pseuds Corner in the current issue of Private Eye? Well done.
 
shakahislop

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my parent's house is increasingly full of copies of Wire. my flat is also full of copies of the wire. they're accumulating. i am becoming an old man keeping hold of magazines from 2008. a million years ago i went to an event at city hall and afterwards i met someone....from the internet i can't remember....in a tube station and they gave me a big sack of old copies of the magazine, i should do the same, they are proliferating, multiplying, they're everywhere.

some nutcase spends their leisure hours making spotify playlists every month called 'reviewed in the wire October 2024' or something like that. i usually have that downloaded on my phone, it's class for dipping into.

there's some really bad posts in this thread
 
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0bleak

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shakahislop said:
i am becoming an old man keeping hold of magazines from 2008
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2008, you say, whippersnapper?
I'm guessing I've still got at least 4+ of large moving boxes filled with magazines (including The Wire) going as far back as the 80s, and that's after I was made to go through and throw out many more around 15+years ago, for the sake of someone else's sanity in a previous relationship.
 
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