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<iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/4SVTdeKqXEcmURWj9KCWR4" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe> (Features some unreleased tracks from 'The Infamous' sessions — Heard Shook Ones pt 1 before but not 'The Money version...

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I just wanted to post this somewhere, and already did a COTD. Public Image - Radio 4 I've been listening to a bunch of 70s music atm, inspired by reading various 70s rock critics (Lester bangs, nick Kent, Ian MacDonald) — oh, and Woebot's 'Book of Woe'! — and Bangs exhorted me to listen to...

Must have bought this on Kindle a while back but I saw it on Amazon today and realised I'd just not downloaded it. I've only dipped my toes in so far but it's brilliant. Great to see luminaries such as Luke Davies and Oliver Craner getting shouted out in the intro too.

Craner rightly rejected my nomination of Patrice Rushen. So who actually qualifies? We can turn this into a discussion about genius vs scenius or whatever, too.

- I was walking in the park yesterday, from which you can see the shard and various other skyscrapers on the horizon. And I thought to myself how they look so distant now. Not just geographically, but temporally. That central London is now just a memory. You know that it's not functioning as it...

Alright, let's be having it. We've all been thinking about it, haven't we? Wondering. And now we're all on lockdown. We need a beacon of hope in this wasteland. What Simon picks shall be graven in stone and discussed, dissected, applauded, rejected, in music discussion forums far and wide...

I watch this at least 3 times a week. I also regularly tune into his Twitch channel. I just downloaded and started listening to his autobiography and it's great. Really honest about his experience growing up and predictably quite funny too. I miss his Vines

UK and US. I know before you start that there are many other influences going around (Jamaica springs to mind). Generally speaking, I am guessing, this has been a *relatively* one way street, but we're now seeing a lot of back and forth influencing going on between US and UK rap music.

What do you make of it? Are They the bovine herd, who'll whistle anything if it's rammed down their ears? Are They mostly uninterested in music, and so are as impressed by a catchy chorus as a caveman being shown an etch a sketch? Are They hopelessly sentimental, convention-bound, fundamentally...

Third I presume you know this! I want to listen to non Spotify shit while out and about on my phone so YouTube isn't an option. (Unless I start paying for it I guess.)

Almost 100 years old. A time to ask questions like - is it still modern? Is it still relevant? What on earth is it all about? Is it elitist and misanthropic? Is it any good? I've got the Norton edition with footnotes and critical commentary. You can read it online, and in annotated form here...

Prompted by the uncut gems/gambling discussion. I'm not. I think my life is the poorer for it.

* Might as well have a separate thread because I'm destined to bang on about him somewhere or other on here, forevermore. Last night I read the two versions he did of 'The Sorrow of Love' - one in the 1893, one in 1925. It's fascinating to see what he changed, how he had improved and...

I saw that this won the TS Eliot prize and it looked interesting, so I bought it. I quite like it. I'm not sure how good it is but it has some powerful images in it and it's coming from a very different perspective to any poetry I've read before. For those that don't know: born in Hackney...

ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων (Character is destiny) Who are you? This book has been very eye-opening for me. I read it about a year ago, and I'm re-reading at the moment. It's helped me to understand myself and other people. The basis (it sounds obvious) thesis is that we all have different brains...

I've noticed a lot of ironic DJ names appearing on posters/flyers in recent years DJ Seinfeld Ross from Friends DJ Absolutely Useless DJ Hutton Report (only one of these is made up) These are names that bring attention to themselves as being totally arbitrary and meaningless. Does that...

Stuff that won't translate via YouTube. Or even via headphones (unless you're on acid or something). I just saw an exhibition with a 9m X 9m painting. No way you can capture that presence in a photograph.