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What an album.
It's not an issue for me beyond having spelled it out. It certainly doesn't justify folks telling me what I had or hadn't meant especially after I did. Let's move on.invisible Pole wrote:Boo, would it cost you anything to let it go and say something like "You know what, given the context I said it I admit I might have been misunderstood." ?
I'll have to keep an eye out for that. Looked for the latest Uncut when I was at Borders doing some Xmas shopping yesterday, but the latest one they had was the issue with Bruce on the cover, and I already have that one.Otis Westinghouse wrote:Excellent article on The Man Who Fall To Earth in this month's Uncut that reflects the weird places he got into after that.
Well quite. Still, it's a shame it's called 'The' Word now. Totally agree about the stars, makes much more sense to have little summaries and then an actual review rather than willy-waving soundbites.Otis Westinghouse wrote: The Word is the one to subscribe to for me. I welcome its more selective approach and its shunning of limiting stars, the range of its interviews and the quality of the writing.
A friend of mine dragged me to see The New Pornographers around the time of their first album, and I was pleasantly surprised by the opening act, who happened to be Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Quite frankly, they upstaged the Pornographers.Who Shot Sam? wrote:
Damn good album. Really disappointed I've missed all of his visits to New York this year.
It might have been Iggy's reward for China Girl. Bowie was producer (with David Richards, never heard of him), it was recorded in Montreux, and he brought in a couple of his collaborators: guitarist Kevin Armstrong and synth guy Erdal Kizilcay. Of the other 4 songs, 3 are Iggy/Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), with whom he'd done demos with before recording; the other, a rocking cover of Johnny O'Keefe's Real Wild Child, which turned out to be a big hit. There's some quite good stuff on there, some pretty new wavey, best imo when Iggy is in forlorn, deep-voiced mode.Otis Westinghouse wrote:Did he really co-write so much of Blah, Blah, Blah? I'm very un-up on my Iggy. He was in such musical doldrums in '86 that I'd be interested to hear those.
So he just does the looping thing, like on his KCRW set? I thought that was interesting, but I can see how it would be somewhat limiting.BlueChair wrote:I was a bit disappointed when I learned that Bird's solo gigs these days tend to be just him, and that the jazzy spark of the Bowl of Fire has dissipated (I think he's pretty much said that phase of his musical career is over)
Indeed. It annoyed me that I had to go back and insert 'The' when I typed that. Felt like a homage to the days of Mark Lamarr openly despising Terry Christian and Amanda de Bleeding Cadenet, etc.Bad Ambassador wrote:Still, it's a shame it's called 'The' Word now.
I loved that album. Don't Bother With The Local Girls etc. I need to find that on cd. I am sure its OOP but I may have to start searching ebay. Glad you mentioned that one. I had forgotten about itpip_52 wrote:Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
Wow! It's very much like early EC or Nick Lowe. How did I not know how great this was before now?