simonsmith.bsky.social
‘I don’t know the sort of people who know the date’
MDANT in Madrid. Pop music mainly.
2,438 posts
1,281 followers
1,177 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
This could be ‘interesting’.
comment in response to
post
Sorry, Black Country New Road ‘twee’?! (And I speak as a man who once made badges from Smartie tube tops. )
{I think you need to divorce that word from your mental image of B&S and replace it with ‘nods to classic pop’. Which, admittedly, is more than one word.}
comment in response to
post
That’s bullshit Rob. God, I much preferred your earlier stuff. Shape up, man.
comment in response to
post
Even odder because your old boss has continued to be (at the very least) interested in new ideas. You’d think some of that attitude might have rubbed off on them.
comment in response to
post
The Select cassettes and CDs seemed to live up to the broad outlook in a way the magazine sometimes didn’t.
comment in response to
post
Yeah, I think the south east of England had enough momentum to produce a scene like shoegaze. But elsewhere, no… Chumbawamba, Manic Street Preachers, etc.
comment in response to
post
Haven’t listened to BTTP for years. But they are an example of one of those bands who were a bridge to the world of crustie festival dance music and The Prodigy. I approved of them even if I didn’t really like them.
comment in response to
post
Because we all had to go to the same clubs. With the ‘original punks’ hanging out at the bar.
comment in response to
post
This. This. This. Totally! And it also embraced the crusty end of tribal house and you could draw lines between, say, The Frank And Walters/James, and, say, Back To The Planet, and, say Weatherall remixes. Then, suddenly, ‘indie’ got narrowed.
comment in response to
post
Ditching my plans for tomorrow (update LinkedIn, book van in for servicing, sort out watering system for the balcony) in favour of playing Hades. Again. And blaming you.
comment in response to
post
Ok. Rewind. What’s wrong with Love Vigilantes? :)
comment in response to
post
Has it not just moved its energy into ‘electing Liberal Democrat councillors on massive swings’? Slumbering. Not dead.
comment in response to
post
I really like the ‘I fucked the groom’ one. Which, honestly, just proves your point.
comment in response to
post
Not an expert, but I guess the slide guitar thing could be linked to micro-tonal scales, in history.
comment in response to
post
In the advert? There was definitely a Tom Waits single released off the back of it. Shameless cashing-in :)
comment in response to
post
Also, we need to remember that ‘The Epstein Files’ is nonsense.
comment in response to
post
I think that CD single might have been the first Tom Waits I ever bought. Which is why it stuck in my mind. And there was a CD single of Heartattack And Vine (for an advert?) with a brilliant live version of On A Foggy Night.
comment in response to
post
Was 16 Shells REALLY not a single?
(Google gap….)
… ah, a live version.
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
I’d be very happy to cut things out, glue things and mail things for people.
comment in response to
post
It’s got a track called Beautifully Broken on it. Case closed.
comment in response to
post
You can imagine a record company desperately trying to persuade Alanis to go with this as an album cover.
comment in response to
post
Alanis Morissette.
comment in response to
post
Do a fanzine. Letraset. Cut-out type. Spot colour, if you insist. I’d buy it.
comment in response to
post
That’s great. Love how it becomes straight-up blues sometimes. Then goes back into the Indian tones.
comment in response to
post
And before anyone starts anything. I like the saxophone version.
comment in response to
post
I discovered your writing - and bought from you - through Unbound. So for a while it seemed like it was a very useful new model. Disappointing it ended so badly. (Not comparing that to your financial loss, obviously.)
comment in response to
post
Hook filled. (And ‘fuck’ filled).
comment in response to
post
I think that album is quite treble-y (probably why I liked it) but tracks like You Got It and Here Comes Sickness should still pack some indie-dancefloor bass wallop.
comment in response to
post
Yes, I really really enjoyed it. Despite the fact that there was hardly any ‘game’ once you’d figured out all the tropes. Must have fallen into the old guy’s fireplace about 30 times… just for lols.
comment in response to
post
Opposite coast to Anderson Island. Of course.
comment in response to
post
The timing was right for a Yes boost, with the anniversary publicity and the Ian Wade article. Shame. Should be in the 100.
comment in response to
post
The weird thing is that the old newspaper brands are publishing things like this… while also desperately trying to catch up with the podcast format.
comment in response to
post
I think that even just having that rule some times means the voters have self-selected as a Kulkarni-friendly group.