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All this typewritten text and the deliberately scruffy / careless assemblage reminded me of my all-time favorite liner note, which isn't really a liner note but purports to be pages from an imaginary book from this EP An earlier Scritti photocopied inner sleeve - not liner notes but...

the singles also increasingly a site for Smith scrawl x

Alongside the pages-torn-from-a-playscript mode, a lot of the M.E.S. liner notes are track-by-track comments - a throwback to how a lot of 1960s liner notes went through an album's delights song by song - except of course here they are gnomic tangents, cryptic and/or barbed asides...

Room To Live and Perverted by Language are where I glaze out a bit with the Fall post-Hex, before recovering interest again with The Wonderful and Frightening, but tempted to get these on vinyl just for the record scrawlings and haphazard design assemblage

some of these M.E.S. liner scribblings are literally mise en scene - styled as screenplays or script fragmnets

the first Fall record I owned

liner notes as design as graphomania as the untidy mind of M.E.S. writ large x

I don't think that is a liner note really because it's not saying anything specific about this record really (except for the lineup), it's a deconstructive text about recordings in general. I think it's all design and it's a quasi-didactic Art Language text instead of a pretty picture move...

Bohemian people at one point looked scruffy - messy hair, sweaters with holes, second hand clothing, in etc. Not washing very often. E.g. how Scritti looked in their squat days. Your mental energy was meant to be devoted to higher things than appearance, although I suppose people would also use...

Re. teeth, it's weird looking at films or TV from the 70s or earlier - especially British stuff - just how bad people's teeth were. Famous people, people in movies, some who were meant to be handsome and dashing leading men, even. They'd have little stubby eroded-away ones, or a lot of visible...

One of the lesser things really - it's not surgical - but I do find what's going on with eyebrows to be quite unsettling.

you should have put put a warning before that link

I don't find his music busy - or at least the bits I like of it, which are all ones that feel "file under ambient" But okay then, how about this, people in the late '90s used to talk about "heroin house" (well, Kevin Martin did, and a few others picked up on it). This is the tune, out of the...

I had surgery several years ago and was put on some kind of opiate while recovering in hospital. Travis Scott sounded great in that woozy state, but then again most things would probably.

Re "switched-on dance music" of the future, it's totally true that Perrey & Kingsley invented electronic dance music, if not quite techno or house

Here's another record that mimics - parodies, I think - the Folkways style of earnest and deeply researched liner notes.

That's a great choice. That's almost like the Thin Lizzy mise-en-scene notes but also plugs into the ethnomusicological field recording style of notage I think the Residents could be forgiven for the E word - I don't think hardly anyone at that time was familiar with the term Inuit and in terms...

p:PROPAGANDA p:MACHINERY A p:MACHINERY B FROZEN FACES “Everywhere — all over Africa and South America, if you visit you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re...