Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
<<<<< #50 to #41 <<<<< #40 to #31 <<<<< #30 to #21 We could have done the tasteful route. The cute set of coffee table records, polished into shape by consensus . A world in which Searching For The Young Soul Rebels is the pinnacle of long-player appreciation. Yet this would be phoney; not that … Continue reading LGM’s 50 Favourite Début Albums Part Four: #20 to #11
Truth be told I was thinking of avoiding the favourite albums piece this year. Because… well, this type of jape has become something of an industry. Ubiquitous; a parade of the same old records shuffled arbitrarily into position. And I’m old, and cranky, and desensitised by mid-November at the very latest as the earnest and … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 #10 – #2
A wonderful climax to last night’s Pastels gig. As fey and as ramshackle as ever, their charm remains infectious to the extent that boys and girls (although mainly boys) of a certain age grow a little tearful whenever they play – especially as traditional set closer ‘Baby Honey’ and all its heavy reverb starts echoing … Continue reading Pastelism
Should any Significant Albums series be looking at the 1970’s, Bowie’s constantly-shifting silhouette would be tagged across the walls of that decade as if the ubiquitous spray-painted logo of a particularly hip and pernicious underground movement. As it is, anything post-1980’s Scary Monsters has to be questioned against a whole range of musical and thematic criteria – from fandom’s … Continue reading Gigawatts And Fuzzy Logic: The Most Significant Albums Of 1995, Part One
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
It’s impossible to fully quantify why something works to the detriment of something else – and that’s if you’re a protagonist, an intrinsic component in any creative process. From our perspective – that’ll be on the outside gazing in, like Dan Ackroyd’s drunk and destitute Santa staring forlornly into the window of the yuppie restaurant … Continue reading The Very Definition Of Swoon: The Most Significant Albums Of 1987 – Part Two
#37: The Pastels – Truck Train Tractor (1986) Don’t tell Mrs LGM, but I think I have a slight, weird crush on Stephen Pastel. I love his effete, down to earth nonchalance, the air of chaos that permeates his band’s records, my suspicions that – in the most affectionate way possible – he still thinks … Continue reading FuckedUpFestiveFifty #37: The Pastels
Having said I don’t write gig reviews, I appear to be doing just that. But then again, some nights are so infused with magic, it would be remiss of me not to apply some words; the indie kids’ field trip to deepest, darkest Easterhouse, and the quorum of good company, delicious sounds and ripping performances … Continue reading To Rococo Rot + The Pastels / Platform, Easterhouse, October 2011
