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10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.

  1. blissblog
    By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja
    Very quiet in the parish at the moment. The rotten weather isn't helping. On the way home after walking the dog over the fields, coming back along Icknield Way, I did spy a bit of โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 100 words
  2. Energy Flash
    "My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN. By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    in - out... in... out... Shake'n' Vac it all about
    "i always feel like UK Hard House has been snubbed from being part of the "hardcore continuum"...... like listen to this and tell me it wasnt massively influenced by jamaican soundsystem culture"- says someone on โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 249 words
  3. FAVES / UNFAVES
    CHEESY WOTSITS. By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    50 Favorite Songs
    (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer Night's Scene" We The People -- "You Burn Me Up and Down" โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 294 words
  4. Found Objects
    Hauntological dumping ground. By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    P for Paladin
    Paladin - second only to Picador as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radical, countercultural, polemical, esoteric, transgressive, avant-garde, youth culture ... a feast for the hungry young mind, portions โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 188 words
  5. Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
    replacing Hardly Baked โ€ฆ "Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno. By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    Quintessence of Old Wave (5 of ??)
    I've observed before that Kate Bush - now a national treasure, hip reference point, influence on a whole 21st Century phalanx of female artists etc etc - was deemed thoroughly uncool during her peak years โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 2,119 words
  6. PANTHEON
    By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    Garry Bushell - The Clash - London Calling - Sounds - December 15 1979
    Resuming the series of reviews in which a critic is wrong-footed in real-time, with Garry Bushell giving a measly two-stars to the record that Rolling Stone would later anoint as Best Rock Album of the โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 286 words
  7. RETROMANIA
    "this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard. By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja
    Very quiet in the parish at the moment. The rotten weather isn't helping. On the way home after walking the dog over the fields, coming back along Icknield Way, I did spy a bit of โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,397 words
  8. ReynoldsRetro
    "there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion). By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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  9. Shock and Awe 2
    successor to Shock and Awe โ€ฆ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    tres debonAyers
    Some people have compared Kevin Ayers's debonair image to Bryan Ferry - the genuine genteel article as opposed to the faux. Some even see him as a prototype, glam just a little too earlyNot sure โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 526 words
  10. Thinkige Kru 2
    successor to Thinkige Kru โ€ฆ vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity. By Simon Reynolds. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ More info

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    2024-12-23 18:25
    Someone recently asked Greil Marcus why "sixties and seventies rock crits hate prog so much?" "Why do people hate prog rock? Because it epitomized the worst of its time, that post-60s desert of stale ideas, โ€ฆ
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 120 words