Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Should the sanctity of an album be a precious commodity, then The Colour of Spring stands testament to theme and ideal… or so I scribbled down in my notebook, on the Subway, the carriage all sneeze and sniffles, the route home waylaid by all the usual urban detritus… And we could label Talk Talk’s third … Continue reading Waiting For The Sun To Warm: Thoughts on Talk Talk’s ‘The Colour of Spring’
I fully expect, in fifty or so years time, to have great-grandchildren gathering round my fireside chair, and for them to ask: “What did you buy in the great 1991 record k’pow, old man?” And I’ll nod sagely, oblivious the the drool leaking gently down my chin, and what I’ll come out with is something … Continue reading And A Swoon, Gladly: The Most Significant Albums Of 1991, Part Two
The day was vernal, scoured by a breeze tinted with a faint, lingering warmth. The ridge, a giant fold in the landscape running parallel to the coast for as far as the eye could see, was dotted with pre-historic barrows, the resting place of a warrior caste writ high for birds of carrion. And I … Continue reading Going Down To Alphabet Street: The Most Significant Albums Of 1988
1986. It’s a very different proposition to the sequence of four digits we’re currently lounging under. Different, but also eerily familiar; the films, the books, the breaking news writ large – not to mention the weight of vinyl that occupied the new release racks in your local record store – they pose as cultural mileposts. … Continue reading The False Friendship Of Autumnal Colour: The Most Significant Albums Of 1986
Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the … Continue reading Live From The Chestnut Tree Café: The Most Significant Albums Of 1984
Guest post. There’s some wonderful writing out there, buried beneath the usual narcissistic posturings of the internets’ dumber quadrants. And Before The First Kiss is a great example – James Joyce if he’d grown up on William Burroughs and records by The Vaselines. Earlier this month I wrote some words on Talk Talk, aware even … Continue reading Years Of Atonal Whistling Stretch Out Ahead Of Me
My eldest son is autistic. A fairly harsh portfolio for him to have been fobbed off with, to be honest. Neurological barricades erected in the dead of night. A world without nuance, empathy, the call and follow of interaction. It’s one of those unfortunate scenarios were the undercurrent is fashioned from a reflexive form of … Continue reading A Colour Of Spring: Talk Talk, Autism, And Me
Lazer Guided Melody - Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records 