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That is kind of in a special category of its own, isn't it? It's live, but it was done for MTV, without the usual amplification and distortion etc. I can't remember listening to it as an album but I feel like it watched at the time, or have seen bits of. Another similiar one - done in the TV...

Ah, thought of another 'pretty good 'un' - Absolutely Live by the Doors. But that is mainly because it contains a performance of the epic song-cycle "Celebration of the Lizard", which was never released as a studio version (at least at the time - some form of it came out on a later Super Deluxe...

Totale's Turns is a pretty good one, but really it doesn't sound that different from the records The Fall were making in the studio at that time, so rough 'n' ready live-sounding they were.

Anyone got any time for these? I can barely think of any that I rate or would ever want to play. It seems a bizarre idea, wanting to bring the concert vibe into your living room. Like, isn't the point of a recording to be studio-sculpted and glisteningly perfect and make pictures in your...

so that would make Gaston Bachelard the first philosopher of ambient - "intimate immensity", "the poetics of space" etc etc

"audio animation" is a great way of looking at music generally (especially electronic but not exclusively) ambient, though, feels like it might be one kind of music where it has less traction - simply because the music is not very animated in the sense of motion and liveliness. in a spiritual...

Droid has loads of terms for subdivisions of ambient - including "manbient" for noisy imposing unsettling ambience I think in a certain sense it hasn't evolved to the extent that dance-oriented electronic music has - perhaps because there aren't that many ways of physically expressing...

Brushing my teeth - hygienists have exclaimed in wonder and admiration.

I have known people with Luka's approach to oral cleansing. One close friend, then a student, never brushed his teeth. Like maybe once in a blue moon. For some reason, he did go to the dentist once, though. The dentist pointed out that his teeth were in dreadful shape. "One of the ones at the...

One of the few extravagances in my otherwise frugal existence is changing my toothbrush very frequently - like every three weeks (rather than every three months). I just power through them. Then I feel guilty about the environmental cost, so end up keeping the used-up brushes in case they...

Got a new dentist recently and the hygienist told me something that surprised me - you are not supposed to rinse out after brushing, instead you should spit but not use water, because the fluoride needs to "sit" on the teeth for a bit in order for it to adhere and do its job of protecting and...

Spiritually Belgian When I interviewed Beltram in early '92, he claimed he was in the running to produce the next Metallica album!

A different viewpoint from Rising High supremo - and I think it's fair to say Belgophile - Caspar Pound (a month or two earlier in Melody Maker). Caspar's like, "Altamont? Bring it on, bring it on!"

Mixmaster Morris sounds the rave alarm in September 91

who said that then?

Kafka was unknown in his own time, right? Likewise Nietzsche sold a spectacularly small number of copies of his books. Like 462 copies of Zarathusra or something of that order. His ascent to renown and influence only started to occur near the end of his life, when he was too ill / insane to...

That and some other ethnological type stuff is a perfect example - I too bought the reissue and have played it a total of one times. But there is a life narrative loop thing going on as well which is that a friend of mine in student days had a copy of the Toop-recorded original, he was this...

People who dismiss Trout Mask out of hand (there was someone who did this on the Guardian, notoriously, I seem to recall) obviously reveal themselves as philistines. But I think there is a thing where (I've tried to get at this with the Event versus Sessionable distinction) you can recognise...

Yes that is why I compared it to going to an exhibition or an art show. We don't tend to go museums more than once, at least for a specific exhibition. Also it seems like a lot of that concepty stuff is really tailored to be a literal Event - like it's prime format is the audio-visual blitz...

This is one of my favorite things about music, the way you drift in and out of levels of attention - and yes how lyrics reveal themselves slowly, a different line will pop out. Or you'll notice some new feature of the arrangement or instrumentation. Outside the reviewing situation, I tend not to...