"Boys Keep Swinging"-echoing provocations from Tricky Kid and Martina T-B
successor to Shock and Awe whose feed no longer seems to be working properly - original blog + archive remains here: http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day
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“A passion for the sham…. A sickness of pretence“
I have noted here before the low regard for plastic in post-WW2 highbrow culture - which was transvaluated into a positive by Warhol and ...
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NME cartoon circa 1981 nicely skewers the self-declared aristocracies of club culture Apropos Oh the myopic narcissism of the young! Or ...
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He should at least have put on some make-up for the studio lights Russell wore hotpants in the promo video too - it was a unified look fo...
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Came across this snippet from Kevin Rowland 's The Q & A in The Guradian a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir Bless Me Fathe...
 

At the time I thought Tricky in this era was the pinnacle of recorded music. I still half-think it today.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Maxinquaye still sounds amazing.
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