Simon Reynolds' blogs
10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.
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blissblog
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Dream on Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - for now at least. Not …
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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. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
It's Different For Girls (Auto-Tune) Following on from the "my kind of rap" post with its coda about Auto-Tune and ad libs.Here's something that's been puzzling me for a while...Q: Why have female rappers not embraced Auto-Tune to anything like …
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FAVES / UNFAVES
CHEESY WOTSITS.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
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" …
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Found Objects
Hauntological dumping ground.
By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
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 …
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Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
replacing Hardly Baked … "Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
sugared hiccups (UK rock 'n' roll 1 of ??) "He didn't have much of a voice either, he was all nose and tonsil, a poor man's Buddy Holly. What he did have, though was... a certain persistent oddity, a real individuality. His first number …
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PANTHEON
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Garry Bushell - Gang of Four - Entertainment! - Sounds - October 6 1979 Not quite an example of critics totally missing the significance of an epochal record in real time, as this does get a measured 3 and a half stars out of five from Gaz, with Entertainment! …
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RETROMANIA
"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar Sometime ago, Vic Reeves posted this on Twitter - if I remember right, it's artwork for a tour poster that was never used. Immediately I flashed on Martin Parr's Boring Postcards book.And then I thought …
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ReynoldsRetro
"there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion).
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Scroll on A little souvenir of a terrible year... something I wrote about doomscrolling for Sasha Frere-Jones's end-of-year writer-buddies round-up, looking back over 2023 and looking ahead to 2024, which has been even more "how can this …
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Shock and Awe 2
successor to Shock and Awe … the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day.
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anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?) A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s prevent the presidency from becoming his circus.- …
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Thinkige Kru 2
successor to Thinkige Kru … vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
2024-11-02 21:21 Audio musicam ergo sumMusic supplies us with a first clue. What part of me hears music when I listen to it? My body trembles, dances, kicks up its heels, perhaps jumps with joy; music innervates …