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Line that leapt out of that Hitchens-recants-former-Dylan-idolisation piece: ".. One of the pirate stations which hypnotised an entire British generation and, in my view, changed the world for the worse" Of course he's not talking about Don FM and Kool and Rinse and Mack.... he means the ones...

Yes I did. Took me over a year! The second is almost as good as the first but it's getting into over-ripeness, stylistically. His incredibly intensely visual detailed descriptions have an odd effect - such that a fight scene that would take a minute reality and be action-packed, is to...

There's a whole book about this in connection with Westerns (and other movie genres based around men of few words whose few words are generally of the tough-talking type) Carducci (otherwise renowned for working at SST, with Black Flag etc whose aesthetic he characterized as "new redneck")...

Don't think me unkind Words are hard to find They're only cheques I've left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind And when their eloquence escapes me Their logic ties me up and rapes me De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do do do, de da da da Their innocence will...

Thomas Traherne, "Silence" A QUIET silent person may possess All that is great or high in Blessedness. The inward work is the supreme : for all The other were occasioned by the fall. A man that seemeth idle to the view Of others, may the greatest business...

Thomas Traherne, "Dumbness" SURE Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss, and pleasure ; That life and love might be his Heavenly treasure ; And therefore speechless made at first, that...

Couple of other Norman O. Brown thoughts in the vicinity of this subject, I think from his previous book Life Against Death:The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, an unexpected campus / counterculture era best-seller (Jim Morrison was a fan) “I've been impressed by the extent to which one...

part 2 of "Nothing", final chapter of Love's Body Feet off the ground. Freedom is instability; the destruction of attachments; the ropes, the fixtures, fixations, that tie us down. Empty words; dissolve the solid meanings. To dissipate the gravity, the darkness of matter, let the light in...

The last chapter of Love's Body by Freudian-mystic Norman O. Brown is titled "Nothing" and is about leaving behind language. The chapter, like the preceding ones, is in large part a sample-text woven of quotes from poets, philosophers, religious thinkers, on the subject of silence. Either that...

Things that were 'in' according to Mark E. Smith in 1987: Sliced white bread with additives Mancunian rap groups Saul Bellow Boer War Homebrew South London Woody Woodpecker The Mothers of Invention Not the complete list Some self-explanatory but other entries definitely need annotation...

Things that were 'out' according to Mark E. Smith in 1987: Brown bread with bits in All Sunday papers Mature guys with pony tails Scotch pop groups featuring pseudo intellectuals All fruit juice British science fiction Rock on television France (permanent) Not the complete list Some...

hog-eyed grease

Rai'd on time

ccru fan at my local library?

Ska has had a couple of go-rounds since the original ska / rocksteady moment. Sixties garage punk has had several go-rounds I think. Not sure about garage punk, but with the 3rd iteration of ska - the No Doubt, Mighty Bosstones wave - I think they were responding more to the Specials /...

Shawn Reynaldo's latest newsletter asks what are the defining sounds of the first half of 2020s and also talks about how the current scene is dominated by revivalism: Yet even as dancefloors have warmed to a wider range of tempos and drum patterns, they’ve also remained stubbornly in thrall to...

I feel like almost all academic electronic composition starts to have this quality once it leaves behind analog for digital means - wispy, ear-tickling either that or a sort of glassy, crinkly sort of palette they all seem to get hung up on high-end sounds and tiny almost imperceptible details...

before it was called Northern Soul (a term made up by a record shop owner / music journalist down South) it was known as rare soul. Rare necessarily means not many copies in the world - and if there aren't many copies in the world that's because it never sold enough that there would be...

yeah but I suppose my real point is that IF it had been a hit for Gloria Jones, the Northern Soulies would have dropped it like a hot potato, INSTANTLY