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bang on about circle...love them; especially the fact that their music seems accidentally psychedelic - sometimes you feel that they've just love to get down and thrash out the Judas Priest covers but then somehow it all goes wrong and they end up locked into a mesmeric Krautrock groove from...

Coil are a little mired in magick and the bad associations that go with it but they are a resolutetly un-gothic band in the conventional sense... most of their music is bursting with light and there's a rich vein of black, bleak humour running through all of their best work: even the death...

Not sure I agree entirely - I liked the Futurehead version, even if it is analogous to the Chapman brothers Goya defacing and a similarly cheap shot (is it not possible to like shots, even if they are cheap?) - because it reminds us that the words, music etc are not in themselves sacred but...

Yeah...I love that song... when they played it at the Mean Fiddler in the middle of their hyperdelic period (early 90s?) Genesis did a supremely creepy intro... and then pulled the raffle tickets for one of his hyperdelic coats...great gig... they had these weird whirly light things at the front...

yeah, you're right - I hated them; knew I felt strongly about them one way or another, just picked the wrong bile duct.... God, how I loathed Age of Fucking Chancers!! Just thought of another... I can't believe I forgot Laibach's Life is Life and, well pretty much everything they ever covered...

yeah the Coil tainted love might be seen as a reconfiguration, especially when you add that weird video they did for it into the mix... What about Psychic TV doing: "Santa Claus is checking his list..." (forget the title) on Dreams Les Sweet.... still feel a little sordid putting that on my 4...

On the way to work John Cale's version of 'Heartbreak Hotel' came on and it struck me that there are very few cover versions that attempt to really reconfigure the original; very few that end up like an evil twin. Cale's version looks like it's been interpreted by a hostage victim or Searle's...

Sort of agree with all this but with a positive slant... AIH (as they're never known) sound exactly like a mid-period Sarah Records band with stirred in electronics and added imagination (I'm suggesting this as a good thing: keep with me, here...) And the Sigur Ros slight is correctly...

SHAFT - Roobarb and Custard. If only for one of the best/worst TOTPs performances. What about Altern8? Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body Raze - Jack the Groove etc. i.e. Anything with Jack in the title except The Reynolds Girls (later changed their name to Reynols) "I'd Rather Jack"

These are your glory days. Every age is golden - there's always more good music out there than there's ever been before... Or maybe it's just me.

Second that; the twin spokes of beardy weirdy sub-rock, acid folk etc etc coming from Finnish scene and the multiple afterthoughts of the Jewelled Antler / Animal Collective/Joanna Newsom brigade will definitely be remembered and re-invoked in years to come if only because they've dragged...

Throbbing Gristle's ultra-speedy version of 'United' works pretty well, especially in the context of the DOA:Third and Final Report album... i can remember spending a lot of time (ah, those were the days...) recording it on a dictaphone and slowing it down trying to hear what the track sounded...

i think this thread just proves how difficult it is to be moral - can't eat meat, wear leather. travel on planes or in cars, take drugs, be against taking drugs... as a regular consumer of magic mushrooms (soon to be legal) but oterwise drug free (even pretty much including analgesics) one...

Can't help but agree with the Powerpoint critics... as an Psychology teacher in a largish provincial FE College PP is used as a weapon in a number of ways: 1) To force crystallised Aims and Objectives even when the topic area may be skills based or 'kinaesthetic' (urgh!) or otherwise abstract...

she is a white girl and it's in a kinda trad country style... maybe that's what's bugging people...

been reading a fair amount about Nina Gordon's cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton in the blogs recently, most of which seems to fall into three camps: 1) it's full of fun n frolics or 2) pastiche/irony/postmodernism is dead... 3) Nina's use of the word nigger is racist bile. it's the 3rd...

I think you're right, K, that both the family and homosexuality pose no threat but the question remains, what <em>is</em> the threat? individually, it may be possible to develop a belief system / ideology that opposes fundamental capitalist concerns but collectively, as soon as people stand...

i guess he's read Ballard's Super-Cannes and is resisting the antogonistic/aggression impulse that did for those fellows..... or maybe it's just a surreptitious device to force people into the uncomfortable position of talking about someone when you suspect they're in the wings, listening to...

maybe the word comes from the same root as 'curare' - the word certainly has paralysing qualities, as if anything curated is already ended.

K-Punk is John McCririck just struck me that the human bear bait that is K-Punk has an ally in John McCririck... he too seemed defined by opposition. On Big Brother he only truly seemed happy in the midst of an argument (not a discussion - these seemed exempt from BB somehow) and he seemed...