Tag Archives: Aspiration

Essential Listening: Champagne Holocaust – The Fat White Family (2013)

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Listening to ‘Bomb Disneyland’ allowed me to appreciate the authenticity of visiting Disneyland Paris twenty years ago. Its pugnacious and distressed delivery is revelatory of the latent contempt held within Disneyland’s sanitised bourgeois aesthetic. Now I vividly recall the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Andy Warhol killed Lee Harvey Oswald, Aspiration, Bard Of Salford, Bomb Disneyland?, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Champagne Holocaust, Cynicism, Drink, Drugs, Essential Listening, Fat White Family, Jimmy Saville, Paganism, Richard Hell, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Suicide, Wickedly puerile | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: New Wave – The Auteurs (1993)

Posted on 20/05/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Recently I’ve been trawling through a lot of nineties music. I couldn’t tell you why I’m doing this, or doing this now. I suspect it’s a subconscious hankering to retain fading memories married with the entirely conscious rationalisation of aging. … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 90's, Aspiration, Blur, Britpop, En Vogue, Essential Listening, Getting old, Luke Haines, New Wave, Not Britpop, Oasis, Pulp, Teens have bad taste in music, Thatcherism, The Auteurs, TLC | 1 Comment