Simon Reynolds' blogs
10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.
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blissblog
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
super pitcher Our kid's been busyHere's Kieran in GQ with a fascinating peek into the world of looksmaxing - a subculture of fanatical physical and physiognomic self-improvement based around medically dubious practices and products, preying on the …
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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
juicy Loved this pop-core tune back in the day ('92)That's the juiciest mix but this one has its a-peel Still, pipped to the post by the original mix. Skin Up had another entertaining cheesy-quaver momentIs that …
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FAVES / UNFAVES
CHEESY WOTSITS.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
four favorite riffs Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd start with that) but four of my favorite riffs, commented on for The Wire's Greatest Riffs feature of 2004 KING SUNNY ADE -- …
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Found Objects
Hauntological dumping ground.
By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Daily Doodle A sketchbook page.
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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
music about music, songs about songs (1 of ?) via this (Dego Macfarlane of 4 Hero's selection in Jockey Slut (via Test Pressing)) Subject of meta-music and pop-on-pop delved into deeper here
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PANTHEON
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Sounds writers with silly pseudonyms There is something of a tradition among U.K. rock writers of adopting an amusing nom de plume, an arresting alias, an enigmatic pseudonym. Or a single word moniker that stands out graphically.New Musical Express had …
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RETROMANIA
"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
"A black hole in Time" Perennial unease about retroculture.... here humorously expressed by NME cartoonist Ray Lowry before the word "retro" had achieved traction in parlance, in March 1982Reminded me tangentially of this For a moment I wondered if Lowry's …
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ReynoldsRetro
"there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion).
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
One Funeral and A Wedding - Reynolds on the Royals How Rock and the Royals Jostled for Britain’s Cultural Identity During the Queen’s LifetimeBy Simon ReynoldsPitchfork, September 13, 2022In a way, British pop musicians and the Queen have been in a quiet competition to define …
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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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antitheatricality and politics (bye bye Bidey) The bullet and the ear resulted in a conspiracy a-go-go bonanza of theatrical tropes - it was all staged, Trump as crisis actor, false flag operations etc etc - way too many to monitor, although …
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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
2024-07-20 16:48 "This is not a situation of bilingualism or multilingualism. We can easily conceive of two languages mixing with each other, with incessant transitions from one to the other; yet each of them nonetheless remains a …