simonsmith.bsky.social
‘I don’t know the sort of people who know the date’
MDANT in Madrid. Pop music mainly.
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Same album, Hurricane is full of amazing lines, but also…
“Three bodies lying there does Patty see, and another man named Bello moving around mysteriously”
… is SO clunky.
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The one thing that puzzles me more about the US than anything else is how such a dull, lifeless, boring song became so popular.
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The First Born Is Dead album sounds like a band who can finally realise their vision. Tupelo and Wanted Man are so…. struggling for a word…. ‘good’. Raw? Primal? But less macho than those words.
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Right, as if we’re not in a ‘safe space for geeks’ :)
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To be fair though, I do like a good old tank rolling along.
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I can’t stop watching. It’s grimly addictive.
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It’s not quite ‘charging a beach in Normandy to fight fascists’ levels of pride.
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I’m similar. This is a tricky one. Still struggling to see how many things will pull ahead of the 20/30 points long tail.
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Ok. Worst anon opin ever. Written by a sociopath.
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I Love My Radio is a banger.
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Yup, those twofer 70s CDs were revelatory for a lot of us, I think.
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Oh. And…
I’m Waiting For The Day
… utterly bizarre that this wasn’t a huge hit single.
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Forever
Be Still
Feel Flows
All I Want To Do
Cabinessence
Disney Girls (1957)
All cliches. But there’s a reason that run of albums are ‘cliches’.
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Is it wrong to think Sloop John B is (one of) the best things on Pet Sounds? I do.
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Probably the only person who could have ever replaced the ‘it’ in this formula.
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A short while ago I put together a playlist for friends to show them what it was that I was getting from Brian's music. I subtitled it "Beach Boys songs that are very Relatable (TM) to neurodivergent depressives". You can find it here www.tunemymusic.com/share/80zVbx...
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Yes, was going to say the hook was probably always xenomania. But, to be fair, that was an interesting hook.
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“Biology” is 2006 as well. I mean, that’s not winning over Pitchfork. But you definitely started to see reviews taking GA and Xenomania seriously.
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That’s not the Mexican cheddar from Lidl is it?
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This could be ‘interesting’.
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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.}
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That’s bullshit Rob. God, I much preferred your earlier stuff. Shape up, man.
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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.
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The Select cassettes and CDs seemed to live up to the broad outlook in a way the magazine sometimes didn’t.
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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.
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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.
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Because we all had to go to the same clubs. With the ‘original punks’ hanging out at the bar.
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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.
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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.
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Ok. Rewind. What’s wrong with Love Vigilantes? :)
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Has it not just moved its energy into ‘electing Liberal Democrat councillors on massive swings’? Slumbering. Not dead.
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I really like the ‘I fucked the groom’ one. Which, honestly, just proves your point.