Every week, every day, we have to put up with this Tory psychodrama. The bullying, the lies, the propaganda, the stupidity, the prejudice, the legislative damage, the failure, the sheer soulless inhumanity of them all. It’s oppressive and v bad for us.
We really need them gone.
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Bought OTD in 1972: a quid. Country Joe’s second. Still in thrall to SF. Patchier, but climaxes with the brilliant double whammy of epic psych instros Eastern Jam/Colors For Susan
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Bought OTD in 1972: a quid for a major statement, stark, rough, inescapable, the start of the confessional genre. Time has removed some of the shock, if not the feelings laid bare. My Mummy’s Dead cuts very deep
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Bought OTD in 1972. A quid. Great soundtrack - recorded 1967/early 1968 - featuring Indian classical music, Eric Clapton, Ringo and the Remo Four. Includes my favourite psych instrumental, Party Seacombe
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Bought OTD in 1972. A sparse folk/ country retrenchment after the cosmic explorations of Aoxomoxoa. Some fine songs - Uncle John’s Band, High Time, Dire Wolf - but peters out on Side 2 with Easy Wind and Casey Jones, which I’ve never liked (US original)
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Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 4th, February 1978 including Brian Eno, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Residents and Iggy Pop.
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Perhaps 60 years ago tonight – dating pix isn’t always poss. Whenever it was, I need to share this. The Beatles’ Cavern appearances were coming to an end because the world needed them, but WHAT a fantastic shot this is, Paul giving his incredible maximum and the girls thisclose.
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Three years of failure. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With public support declining, there were no celebrations only lies, excuses & the usual cries of 'betrayal'. Nothing new, but as time passes the failure of the Brexit project is inescapable: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/three-
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Happy birthday to Dave Davies - a total inspiration
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Inner gatefold is of a piece with the menacing promo ad for the single that appeared in the music papers in late January 1970.
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Bought OTD in 1970. I was 16. Already big early Floyd fan. Love the whole album now but then the entry points were the rockier tracks: No Good Trying, No Mans Land. Side 2 is heart rending. Fearsome inner sleeve montage really caught my attention
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Ace Records doing what they do best.
Another great compilation from as they continue their year by year series with , this time documenting the post-punk / disco / rap / synth of the early eighties era.
Pre-ordering now.
roughtrade.com/gb/product/var
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Great album, love this promo film for "As Long As You're Here".
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Bought OTD in 1972 for a quid or so. Big fan of the Lovin’ Spoonful so took a punt on this forgotten Zally solo lp: rewarded by the bizarre, sprightly Hip Toad - about a recalcitrant amphibian - and the monstrous six minute LSD march, Lt. Schtinkhausen
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Super heavy Booglarize on Beat Club where it manifests itself as a crooked near reworking of London Sessions version of Wang Dang Doodle.
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1/15: Brexit has had a significant impact on the UK. From trade deals to “taking back control”, the effects have been far-reaching and entirely negative.
So where are we just 3 years on?
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How very typically Brexit that, on its 3rd anniversary, its foghorns try to shout down reality by blasting out discredited bullshit, while our economy trails behind everyone else’s and public support for the delusional cult has collapsed.
Such a humiliating abandonment of sanity.
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Hi - my sister passed away in December and I’m selling some of her records for my niece. Any chance you could retweet this please?
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BOTD in 1942: Derek Jarman - painter, filmmaker, diarist, gardener, historian, activist - art as life, life as art. Here's an interview from the time of Jubilee - his pivotal film - and a cover rough he did for England's Dreaming
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Bought OTD in 1972: one if Don’s bluesiest and very best: Click Clack, White Jam, I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby and the highlight, When It Blows Its Stacks - hand em a Ronson ‘n says I’ll see you around
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Well said Glen
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Glen Matlock(Sex Pistols): "The govt have made a right cock up of things & I would like to see their heads metaphorically on sticks.. I'm livid, as a musician, about the loss of our movement in 27 countries.. I know the BBC have to push the govt line a little bit"
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Glen Matlock(Sex Pistols): "The govt have made a right cock up of things & I would like to see their heads metaphorically on sticks.. I'm livid, as a musician, about the loss of our movement in 27 countries.. I know the BBC have to push the govt line a little bit"
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Not the first, I have been informed. Oh well, first London gig!
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Television's first UK gig. Either Derek Jarman or Jean Marc Prouveur took this polaroid of me, casting for Jubilee. Did we go to this show together?
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High Society article on Rough Trade Records in Sounds 29th, January 1977.
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Tom Verlaine seemed so archetypal when we met for this piece.. very humble and sweet.. the playing was ferociously intelligent. RIP
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The review of Television's album 'Marquee Moon' by Vivien Goldman in Sounds, March 12th, 1977, plus an interview with Tom Verlaine. "It's an obvious, unashamed, instant classic"
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RIP Tom Verlaine: Midnight sirens under dark shellac sky: my visual invocation of Marquee Moon, February 1977
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Elvis Costello's gig at the Roundhouse reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 28th, January 1978.
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Bought OTD in 1972. The intriguing 1968 Yardbirds live album rendered not great by ham-fisted overdubs. Released because of Page’s success with LZ, note the strange lack of credit for Jake Holmes on ‘Confused’
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Ending the show with a load of tracks from this brilliant curated album on - a collection like no other - definitely worth getting a copy while they are still available !!
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Good morning. Sunrise over Carneddau
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A good day. Finished copies of 1980-82 have arrived. Great cover by Joe Conzo. Out 24.2.23. Preorder at acerecords.co.uk/jon-savages-19
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Bought OTD in 1972: cover definitely a punk move - brick wall, 50s throwback hair- with fierce acoustic songs about hobos, Black Americans and skid row residents. Sympathy for the outcast in vogue during 1970 see also Danny O’Keefe’s Drover’s Song
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Iggy Pop and James Williamson's album 'Kill City' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 21st January 1978.
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Three years after Brexit, where is the new golden age that they promised us? | Andrew Rawnsley
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