Posts by philipmatthews
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to George Darroch,
There isn't a single song on here that I don't genuinely enjoy.
Really? How about these:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
But – and I apologise as I have mentioned this before – I have been tormented for the last 12 years by a CD which has proved unbreakable and impossible to lose or destroy. A certain member of the family remains a fan of Paul Holmes while fully realising the powerfully negative affect on anyone else forced to endure the same sound waves.
That could be the last surviving copy of that particular album. I'd love to post a YouTube clip of his cover version of Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight ...
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Lilith __,
I don't know of anyone else who makes music like this.
Legend. This also:
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"What about the voice of Geddy Lee?
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?"
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Spoken-word interludes? One of the all-time worst occurs about five minutes into this pretentious epic from Pete Wylie:
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Van Morrison, for me, is in the "I've tried to like it but just can't" category (which is where I also put Animal Collective: I've tried and tried ...). I'd like to like Van at least so I can read the Greil Marcus book on him.
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Also: wish I was seeing these guys.
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It's possible to love Nirvana and hate Foo Fighters -- in much the same way as you can like the Beatles and hate (as we should) Wings.
On Tool: I have a sneaking admiration. They're like the Radiohead of metal: enigmatic, too-serious, po-faced, but experimental.
Another, recent guilty pleasure: Fleetwood Mac, 1975-77.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
He sounded hell of a like Jim Morrison. The only mystery for me was whether it was deliberate.
Think it was well-known that Joy Division were Doors fans. Opening nearly at random Paul Morley's book about JD (Joy Division: Piece by Piece), he writes that Closer was "made by people who had been big fans of music by Can, Kraftwerk, the Doors, Love, the Velvet Underground, Black Sabbath, Neu!, Throbbing Gristle, the Sex Pistols, Bowie, Buzzcocks and Brian Eno". A good list, but apparently Joy Division were worried that parts of Closer sounded like Genesis. Fair enough, as Genesis were easily the second-worst band in the history of rock music. The worst being:
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
She also invents a genre called "hop hop" ...