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Essential Listening: Blond – Frank Ocean (2016)
In the excellent documentary 30th Century Man, Brian Eno, clearly hamming it up a touch for the cameras, mused, with pious exasperation, that pop music’s proclivity for ingenuity had stagnated. What he was implying was more forgiving; bands often aspire … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th Century Man, Album of the year, Already a classic, ‘some tattooed eyelids on a facelift’, Blond/Blonde, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Channel Orange, Essential Listening, Frank Ocean, Futua Free, Ivy, Nikes, Pink and White, Pop music is alive and well - in this instance anyway, Prince, Pyramids, R'n'b, Scott Walker, Self-Control, Siegfried, Soul, Talking Heads, The perfect aesthetic for our times, The perils of over-contextualisation, Trayvon Martin, Tupac won't be found
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Song Of The Day – Every Night by James Pants
From the album ‘James Pants’ (2011)
Song Of The Day – When I Come Knocking by Poncho C. Saint Fingers
From the single ‘When I Come Knocking’ (1980)
We blew it.
Leonard Cohen once prophesied ‘Democracy is coming, to the USA’. But despite its lyrical brilliance I highly doubt he would have pictured Donald Trump ever becoming America’s president when ‘Democracy’ was penned twenty-five years ago. I recognise there’s something macabre … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohenism is better than all the other isms, Democracy is coming to the USA, Destructive soapboxing, Digitalism, Disengaged age, Donald Trump, Easy Rider, Facebook, Gone for politics as the category but I dunno really, Justifiably karmic, Leonard Cohen, Media, Newspapers, Nigel Farage, Piousness, Reaganism, RIP Lenny, Terrorism, Thatcherism, The Future, The Simpsons were right, Twitter, We blew it, Will people wake up and stop being so cuntish?, Wyatt and Billy blew it too man
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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