Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
<<<<< #50 to #41 <<<<< #40 to #31 Label this the “Hello, you – that’s a smashing blouse” introduction. I’ve spent far too long wading through this début albums thing. I have a life, you know. Things to do, people to meet, shins to kick. The publisher who showed interest in my novel now thinks … Continue reading LGM’s 50 Favourite Début Albums Part Three: #30 to #21
‘Came Back Haunted’, from the album Hesitation Marks, out in September. Continue reading A Case Of Posting A New NIN Tune Instead Of Proper Content, Which Is Coming Later
I often find writing about music to be a strange and fussy preoccupation. The swash of subjectivity, refracted through blasé attempts to underline the mechanics of attraction. And should you subscribe to any notion that the records we listen to help to define us as people, disentangling the particulars of sound from this listener-gripped detail … Continue reading Yes! We Have Sound: The Most Significant Albums Of 2005
Perceptions change, over time. Opinion migrates, moulded according to new experience, a reaction against contexts both outside and personal. If there was one record from 1999 that I played above all others, back in that shady hinterland of fourteen years ago, it would have been The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails. That this hasn’t ventured anywhere near … Continue reading Cue Conflicting Emotions: Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile Revisited
It existed for an all-too-brief period. Candle fire, a flicker in the breeze. And yet for a year or two, Suede were arguably one of the most important acts on the planet. A highly precise strand of magic; the interplay between Brett Anderson’s vocals – sultry, androgynous, bathed in the kitchen-sink dramatics of lip-gloss and … Continue reading The Ardent Fan-Boy Who Should Know Better: The Most Significant Albums Of 1994
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines, or dates by which bills must be paid – Frank Zappa And whist Zappa wasn’t specifically speaking about 1989, I’ve always been terribly smitten with the concept of recorded sound as punctuation. As some sort of definite context; the significant albums … Continue reading The Deliberate Omission Of The Stone Roses: The Most Significant Albums Of 1989
#17: Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been (2002) It’s easy to dismiss Trent Reznor’s musical output (many indeed do). The shock rock posturings, the degrees of angst and aggression stunted at the level of the teenage outsider. It’s difficult to rate him highly as a lyricist – all too often there’s … Continue reading FuckedUpFestiveFifty #17: Nine Inch Nails
The venue was some hipster pad tucked away in the old canal district. A former warehouse, stripped and remodelled, the usual call-signs of generic bohemia. It was a long, thin space – part artist’s studio, part desirable residence – and defined by its exposed brickwork, its high ceilings, the structures and intricacies of minimalism at … Continue reading The DJ’s Crap, Let’s Start a Fire
Lazer Guided Melody - Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records 