Tag Archives: Punk
Essential Listening: White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground (1968)
All the peaks of legendary acts from the sixties and seventies that you could mention – The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin – constituted a succession of flawless albums in short order. For the Beatles their … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Altamont 1969, Andy Warhol, Beggars Banquet, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Coney Island Baby, Essential Listening, Exile On Main St., Extremadura, Gen Z, Greenwich Village, Highway 61 Revisited, I Heard Her Call My Name, JFK, John Cale, John Wesley Harding, Lady Govina’s Operation, Led Zeppelin, Let It Be, Let It Bleed, Lord Lucan, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Millennials, New York, No fifth VU album exists - got that?, Punk, Robert Shelton, Rubber Soul, Sandwich album, Serrano Ham, Sister Ray, Socialism, Songs for Drella, Sourdough, Sterling Morrison, Sticky Fingers, The Beatles, The Gift, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Transformer, Tupac, Wales, White Light/White Heat, William S. Burroughs
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Essential Listening: IDM for late spring/early summer – Jan Jelinek circa 2001-2002 & Consumed in Key – Plastikman & Chilly Gonzalez (2022)
T.S. Eliot stated that April is the cruellest month. Well at this latitude I’d add May to that too. It’s a tease of a month; the summer solstice gets closer, days lengthen considerably, the wind no longer bites quite so … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphex Twin, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Canadians, Chilly Gonzalez, Computer Soup, Consumed In Key, Detroit, Disco, Druids in Wiltshire, Essential Listening, Farben, German pastiche, Gramm, Heroin kills baby elephants, Human sized Bumblesting, IDM, Improvisations And Edits Tokyo, Jan Jelinek, John Coltrane, Keith Richards, LCD Soundsystem, Live Aid, London, Loop Finding Jazz Records, May is the cruellest month, New Orleans, New York, Personal Rock, Plastikman, Punk, Richie Hawtin, Secret Thirteen, Starbox, T.S. Eliot, Techno, velux windaes, Voices Of Freedom, W.H. Auden
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Essential Listening: Pop Ambient 2002 – Various (2001)
The Pop Ambient series on the Cologne label Kompakt has been running since 2001, and in well over a decade one release from that series stands alone: 2002, but why? The simple and short answer is that not all albums … Continue reading
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Tagged AG Penthouse, All, Alles fliesst nichts bleibt, Ambient, Basic Channel, Beggars Banquet, Brian Eno, Cologne, CSN, DD Rhodes, Dettinger, Disco, Disintegration Loops, Donacha Costello, Donaunebel, Dry Retch, Essential Listening, Exile On Main St., Grount, Java, Joni Mitchell, Jz-arkh, Kompakt, Music For Airports, Novisad, Only 1200 words!, Pop Ambient 2002, Punk, Revolver, Sommersonnenschein, Summer Sunshine, Tal, Tal 90, The Usual Suspects, The White Album, Too many tags, Triola, William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt
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Song Of The Day – Tight Pants by Iggy & The Stooges
From the EP ‘I’m Sick Of You!’ (1977)
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Tagged 70's, Became Shake Appeal, I'm Sick Of You!, Iggy Pop, Punk, Raw Power, Song Of The Day, The Stooges, Tight Pants
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Song Of The Day – Frankie Teardrop by Suicide
From the album ‘Suicide’ (1977)
Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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