Dreams: Propaganda 1985: I’ve been listening to Propaganda all day. Here’s some articles and reviews from their time (’85) – here’s an excellent Tangents piece on them.[…]

Martin Creed just won the Turner Prize (ILE is discussing it here). He was the lights-going-on-and-off guy. He’s also got a band, Owada, who are kind of Art too. Here are the words to the songs on their CD.[…]

DURAN DURAN – “The Chauffeur”
1. The Title: “The Chauffeur”. This song, you know, is going to be cod-elegant and faux-decadent and as icily pretentious as anyone could wish. You think, perhaps, of Pinter. You think, mayb[…]

Just to counter the Scrit-Bit below, heres Kevin Pearce on them, from Tangents. He tears into Songs To Remember, Scritti Politti’s just-reissued 1982 album, essentially accusing it of a kind of treachery, and asserts that history has judged wha[…]

End Of An Era! “You know how the Beatles broke off, they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger.”[…]

“The sound of Scritti Politti 1978 to 1985 is essentially the sound of Green Gartside getting better in bed.”
Evidence:
1978-1979: lived in horrible communal squat. Would probably have presented you with itemised bill (sorry delineation o[…]

Careless Talk Costs Lives is a new music magazine that most emphatically believes pop writing is not dead. It’s run by Everett True, Steve Gullick, and Stevie Chick and contributors include several quite familiar names – Freaky Trigger&#8[…]

THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT I DO
“The good thing about the time on the music press was that I was there, on the road with the Sex Pistols, on the boat on Jubilee Day. It’s like a bad photograph of Kennedy getting shot – it’s st[…]

rebellious jukebox: here’s Jess’ own blog again! I need to put this in the sidebar though. He’s counting down his top 50 albums of the 1990s – ah, the memories that come flooding back. I don’t like reviewing albums, thou[…]

let’s build a car is a fine new addition to the sidebar links. It’s by David Raposa (NYLPM’s own) and Jess Harvell (ILE’s own, and whose blog should also be sidebarred but the dog ate my link. I will seek.). It’s about t[…]