Comments on: These TOTP best-ofs I have shored against my ruins: The Blue in the Air https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/08/these-totp-best-ofs-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins-the-blue-in-the-air Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/08/these-totp-best-ofs-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins-the-blue-in-the-air/comment-page-1#comment-902712 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:06:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=21677#comment-902712 OK so the idea was to do a ten years/five years thing on BiA since last week was ten years since I lost everything and five years since I got everything back, with various relevant side-road spins – how “Don’t Go” and “Heaven” both sounded and looked so right to be the top two singles last week (London and how we react to, and in, it), how it’s so fitting that the emotion of “Jar Of Hearts” should turn on the same pop-up chord change (A major to blink-you-miss-it A minor) as “Space Oddity” (someone like Adele – and that “someone like” may yet enclose her doom – would never have gone that extra millimetre) – and then back to what’s happened and why but truthfully it’s been told so often, and really everything I wanted to say was, and is, in the Stranded piece (and taking the opportunity to correct the above duff link).

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By: punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/08/these-totp-best-ofs-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins-the-blue-in-the-air/comment-page-1#comment-900160 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:42:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=21677#comment-900160 The first of two major blog posts I’m making this week: a TPL entry which, I think it will be obvious, is particularly close to my heart:

http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/roxy-music-stranded.html

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By: David Belbin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/08/these-totp-best-ofs-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins-the-blue-in-the-air/comment-page-1#comment-898723 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:36:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=21677#comment-898723 Great, thought provoking review of a great, thought provoking book.

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By: koganbot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2011/08/these-totp-best-ofs-i-have-shored-against-my-ruins-the-blue-in-the-air/comment-page-1#comment-898607 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:32:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=21677#comment-898607 Let’s unpack this a bit more bluntly

I love that sentence.

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