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10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.

  1. blissblog
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    laughing gas - but this is no laughing matter
    Kieran Press-Reynolds with a fascinating story for GQ about Galaxy Gas, a flavored nitrous oxide product that's all the rage and whose cute packaging recalls Alco-Pops in its kiddy appealOooh and talking about giddy pop …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 74 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. 🇺🇸 More info

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    "scene's wildest raver!"
    A piece on new sensation Jimi Hendrix in the NME
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 13 words

  3. FAVES / UNFAVES
    CHEESY WOTSITS. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 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" …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 294 words

  4. Found Objects
    Hauntological dumping ground. By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Behind the scenes on Blue Peter
    By Keith Seatman, 6 words

  5. 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 info

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    my own personal Blow Up
    So I was watching an ancient episode of Revolver, from 1978. Boomtown Rats closing the show with a buncha boppy hits, including "She's So Modern"Modern girls getting down to the New Wave soundsHang on, who …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 92 words

  6. PANTHEON
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Mick Farren - The Stooges
    Not sure which publication this was in - probably International Times - but this could be the start of a sporadic series: reviews in which critics don't perceive the significance of something at the time …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 215 words

  7. RETROMANIA
    "this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    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 …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,171 words

  8. ReynoldsRetro
    "there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion). By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    19th Century DIY versus 20th Century DIY: cylinder home recordings, pirate radio tapes + adverts
    Luke Owen of Death Is Not The End just recently put out a really interesting release: Making Records: Home Recordings c. 1890​-​1920 - a collection of DIY home recordings, transferred from blank and repurposed brown …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 4,515 words

  9. 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. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Elected! Rejected?
    first in a series of posts related to the last time Trump ran for election (rather than for reelection)Article for MTV.com, 2016, On Alice Cooper's "run" for President in 1972.Forty-four years ago, Alice Cooper ran …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,578 words

  10. Thinkige Kru 2
    successor to Thinkige Kru … vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    2024-10-10 21:42
    One of the mysteries about pop is its repeatability. The way that repetition of a song doesn't dim its power, or only at extreme degrees of repetition (absolute blanket radio coverage causing you to get …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 185 words