This eighteen-month late review of Tears for Fears latest compilation, released in November 2017, absolutely has to be done, for reasons of aesthetic duty if nothing else.
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Category: Pop
Every side an A-side!
The Cure, Disintegration 30 Years Anniversary, Sydney Opera House, May 2019
Disintegration’s popularity is absolutely deserving of a 30th anniversary and real credit is given to the band for having the courage and principle to have the entire show live-streamed and added to YouTube.
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Records: The Be Positives, Boy Harsher (2019).
Some new pre-punk pop-rock, and a remixed favourite.
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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy
I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …
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Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.
I can kazoo this on my own.
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Owen Kentauros brings you the 1980s on ukulele, in Japanese.
1980s New Wave on ukulele and occasional kazoo, on a grainy old webcam in 4:3. Bow to the viewer, play.
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Records: The Rolling Stones, Deerful, Benjamin Shaw (2016, 2018).
A party that everyone’s been looking forward to for weeks. They seem to be having a wonderful time.
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The Twinkles: We Come Along (2018).
A 10 song album that is everything you’ve been looking for if you’re sad that The Vandals haven’t had a full length release since 2004.
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Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.
Twenty deadly diseases.
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Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.
The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”
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Reviews: Marsy, Dot Dash (2018).
Yeah, putting a Bandcamp embed into reviews is clearly the right thing.
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Richard Syrett on Theodor Adorno, the Beatles, conspiracy theorists and … me.
Did you know that Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles songs? I sure didn’t! In fact, I still don’t.
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Mark Rye: Inside Looking Out: More Rock’n’Roll tales from inside the British music business (2017).
First-hand tales from the people down in the engine room.
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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.
The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Links: NME goes out of print, write about music anyway, Qwant music search, how to write a hit in 2018.
Choreography about architecture.
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The Frozen Autumn: The Fellow Traveler (2017).
Are you into synthpop? Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?
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Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.
There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.
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King Trigger: The River (1982).
Today’s one-hit wonder.
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Perfume: Cosmic Explorer (2016).
Hear some pop trash you haven’t heard played to death!
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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.
Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.
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Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).
Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.
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Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.
Into the hot.
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Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.
Happy new year, probably!
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Reviews: The Glass Eyes, Elektrostaub, Stolen Apple (2016, 2017).
Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.
These are places that are gone.
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Reviews: The Big Sun (2016), Autumn (2017), Snog (1992, 2017).
Suppose I’d better cut the pile down a bit again.
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Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.
The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Reviews: Zürich ’81, In The Nursery (2017).
Two marvellous bands you need to pay attention to.
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Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.
And Spray, compressed and convenient.
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