Simon Reynolds' blogs
10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.
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blissblog
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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. 🇺🇸Updated
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FAVES / UNFAVES
“CHEESY WOTSITS.” By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸Updated
Changed My Life Ten Records that Changed My Life (can't remember who this was done for, or when - 2003?) 1/ Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, 1977 Awoke me to belief in rock as a revolutionary, world-historical …
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Found Objects
“Hauntological dumping ground.” By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸Updated
a Play opening Watch and listen not for the play itself but the intro / title sequence for Play For Today in 1973 - a cool if brief slice of avant electronic crash bang wallop. The starkness and …
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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. 🇺🇸Updated
post for Stylo A post for Stylo, who's earned it with the energetic commenting, and who could hardly fail to do a better job explaining "what's so good about Happy Mondays?" than this lot... I've never understood the …
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PANTHEON
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸Updated
Ian Penman versus The Pop Group + The Slits (x 2) - New Musical Express - June 1980 A few weeks later the Slits / Pop Group / Y-Tribe invited I Punman to submit to the tribunal of a polylogue, a tense and not hugely profitable exchange of views(via Matthew Worley + Tom …
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RETROMANIA
“"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard.” By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸Updated
Happy Deathday Aspects of retromaniacal culture seem to wax and wane (my overall feeling is that the R-thing is prominent but not quite as dominant as when the book was writ) but one phenom that seems to …
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ReynoldsRetro
“"there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion).” By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 -
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.” 🇺🇸Updated
Baroque 'N' Roll I did not imagine that I was the first person to come up with "baroque 'n' roll" - - the title of the chapter in S+A about Queen, Sparks, Cockney Rebel etc - indeed it …
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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. 🇺🇸Updated