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that's very true about the Simpsons. it's hard to remember how much i loved it in its golden age. actually in terms of duration, it's a bit like drum & bass - the golden age has now been temporally dwarfed by its not-golden-age by a factor of three or four or even five

he thought a reformation should be a finite project rather than an open-ended thing - oriented around a single tour or set of dates - a reissue and / or a 'first album in X number of decades' - an exhibition - some kind of focus for the endeavour, rather than "we can't think of any else to do...

one of the things that got me thinking on this topic is that I remembered interviewing a guy who specialized in organising the reformation of bands and doing it in a classy way that burnished the legend he used the Buzzcocks as his negative example of reformation - where the group just "runs...

i knew someone would come back with something like that! i almost preemptively added something along those lines - "applies to writers too, some would say"

thinking specifically of musical-shitting-on-self, rather than extra-musical offences in the area of personal conduct, ideological self-soiling, etc that tarnish the work by association e.g. Ian Brown covidiocy, Lydon as Brexit / Trump supporter, Morrissey across the board disgrace, Van Morrison...

most artists carry on long after they should have stopped, so the Q might equally be "who hasn't shat on their own legend?" but who are the ones who have most soiled their own discographies? it might not even be a question of bad records, just the sheer quantity of 'pretty good / decent'...

bought and loved this at the time, but it's a song that seems sillier with each passing year Like, if only Jerry Brown had become President instead of Reagan I bet Jello voted for Brown to be Governor of California again in the 2010s. If he didn't, he's a dick.

wow that's cool, i'm going to read that the only thing i don't like about the song is that the first voice you hear is Sal Bernardini her then boyfriend and musician in her band, i wish she was singing the whole song

really? i hadn't noticed but well deserved if so, if only on the basis of Pirates, an amazing album

gotta love Rickie Lee's bohemian pride in stench like Jim Morrison never bathing

funnily enough I was just reading about Waits in this extract from a Rickie Lee Jones memoir: "When I was 23 years old I drove around LA with Tom Waits. We’d cruise along Highway 1 in his new 1963 Thunderbird. With my blond hair flying out the window and both of us sweating in the summer sun...

meaning, not they have been in films, although they have, but in their music they are playing a role, or roles

they are both actors aren't they, that's the connection

“It’s a picture from the top of this mountain, where it’s eternally twilight, death is there. I really thought there were angels near me. I was hearing things, seeing things. It was a very bad, sad time” - RLJ

no never heard of it

my son alerted me to this producer Vertigoaway, a bit breakcore-manic but what I like about some of the tracks is the attention to the synth-tones and the kind of naive melodic intervals used back in the day - precisely tagged to 93-94, that moment when dark starts to clumsily reach out for...

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