The Vaults II
Return to the Freaky Trigger archive, putting up content lost from several years ago. This time – White Town, Kelis, Radiohead, Kraftwerk and the Human League.
Interview with Jyoti Mishra: One of the very few interviews we ran! The No.1 pop star on, well, pop.
This Way For The Future: we put this up on the same day as NYLPM started and it kind of set the tone – rave review of the first Kelis album.
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: for some reason – oh yeah, getting hits – I decided to rush-write an early review of Kid A. I’m not honestly sure I’ve heard the record since writing this.
Expo 2000: Kraftwerk’s 2000 comeback written up quite generously. There’s a good idea in here which I don’t think I really get to.
Spacemen Two: pretty good write-up of the first two Human League albums, which were (I assume) out of print at the time.
Just curious, were you ever on Jyoti’s White Town listserv? That was one of my earliest forays into internet discussion groups, back when I was still in high school. I remember one time he even patiently explained how to play “A Week Next June” on the guitar, comparing the chords to the Jose Feliciano version of “Light My Fire.” And being on the listserv gave a bit of a taste of the breadth and depth of Jyoti’s thought on pop.
No, though it sounds great! The honest truth is that even at the time of the interview I didn’t like the big White Town hit much (something I’ve since realised I was totally wrong about) though I kept that quiet. My introduction to online discussion groups was alt.music.alternative in the mid-90s.
I remember Jyoti from alt.music.alternative back then. Is he much around in discussion forums etc?