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it s repetitive sometimes it s annoyingly self indulgent but it s always thoughtful and driven by a very real connection to the band and their music it s not a great book for reading cover to cover though that s how i read it the repetition would seem less noticeable if i d read the book in bits and pieces over a longer period of time this is not the book for someone new to the band but then there are a few of those already touching from a distance written by deborah curtis ian curtis s widow is a better starting point there s also a 33 1 3 book on their first album unknown pleasures but if you ve read those or know the basics there s a lot of great stuff here some of it written at the time all this was new and just happening some of it written with a different perspective years later 33 1 3 pink flag 2009 may 27 2009 posted by sjroby in book reviews music tags 33 1 3 wilson neate wire add a comment wilson neate pink flag jeffrey roesgen s book on the pogues below shows how good a book about an album can be by doing the unexpected wilson neate shows how good a book about an album can be by writing a conventional work that does everything it needs to pink flag is wire s first album it was released as part of the first wave of uk punk in 1977 and it s been a touchstone for a lot of musicians ever since however it s neither typical of uk 77 punk nor of wire s long career so neate uses a fair bit of the book to put the band and the album in context with 21 short punchy loud guitar songs on one lp pink flag audibly shares a great deal with several other punk albums of the time but according to band members and others quoted in the book wire was seen as something outside the core punk scene being a bit older and more self consciously approaching music as an art project rejecting conventions of rock and roll that were still largely unchallenged by punk rebellion at the same time the loud racket of punk much of it played by people just learning to play their instruments was an obvious opportunity for a bunch of art school types who were also just learning to play instruments they made a lot more sense in the punk context than they would have elsewhere at the time i think neate somewhat overstates the exceptionalist case for wire and pink flag few of the bands worth remembering from punk s first wave adhered to a rigid and rockist punk formula through their careers after the sex pistols john lydon went on to the very different public image ltd howard devoto left the buzzcocks and formed magazine the clash the buzzcocks siouxsie and the banshees and others moved away from the core punk sound after an album or two building on new influences and developing new styles wire was hardly the only band of that time to do something recognizable as a punk album and then go off into a dozen different directions still it s not exaggerating to say that wire s members have approached their career over the decades as more of an art project than a rock band and many of their solo projects make that even more obvious anyway in addition to providing that context neate tells the history of the band and the work they did on the way to recording pink flag he provides a lot of detail on the recording of the album discussing all the songs individually and he quotes the band members the producer and a number of other musicians along the way wire s members seem to have been quite candid and open in their discussions and there s a lot of interesting information here other people neate talked to include pink flag producer mike thorne later musicians like henry rollins black flag the rollins band ian mckaye minor threat fugazi and graham coxon blur rock writer jon savage and many many others the book provides a knowledgeable and intelligent look at the band from the inside and the outside i read somewhere that there was originally some interest in doing a book on wire s third album 154 instead of pink flag but the latter is much more well known in america and is more often mentioned as a key influence fortunately there is another book wire everybody loves a history which also features a lot of input from band members and covers the band and various side projects up to 1990 or so it s out of print and may be hard to find but it s worth tracking down it d be great to see an updated edition some day another writer has recently produced a book on wire but from all reports it s replete with errors and the band doesn t recommend it john foxx and robin guthrie mirrorball 2009 may 17 2009 posted by sjroby in music tags cocteau twins john foxx robin guthrie ultravox add a comment john foxx and robin guthrie mirrorball having heard the albums foxx and guthrie recorded separately with ambient musician harold budd i expected an instrumental album with layers of piano synth and guthrie s distinctive reverbed guitar sound so it came as something of a surprise to hear foxx singing on several songs on this album the end result is something like the cocteau twins album victorialand crossed with foxx s cathedral oceans project while this is the warmest most melodic most accessible of foxx s three albums so far this year it s not quite pop music when foxx sings he draws as he did on cathedral oceans on the sound of traditional church music going so far as to sing in something that sounds at times like latin italian or spanish but isn t it s like the invented language the cocteau twins liz fraser often used and it adds an evocative distant sense of mystery even to songs like estrellita the song that stands out as the one most likely to appeal to people who ve never heard of foxx or guthrie guthrie s guitar playing and sound have always evoked descriptions like atmospheric or ethereal and that s certainly the case here he provides his usual restrained and delicate touch playing simple guitar lines with plenty of reverb creating a paradoxically austere yet full sound foxx s vocals work similarly usually being treated with a bit of echo some songs add acoustic guitar piano or unobtrusive programmed percussion there s an emotional weight to the album it s not dry or abstract unlike some of the d agostino foxx jansen album earlier this year the words may not tell you what to feel but you ll find your own appropriate reactions this is beautiful music you can see a video for estrellita on foxx s quiet man blog if you like it and order the album from foxx s preferred retailer townsend records you ll get a download link for an exclusive extended version of one of the songs 33 1 3 daydream nation 2007 may 7 2009 posted by sjroby in book reviews music tags 33 1 3 matthew stearns sonic youth add a comment matthew stearns daydream nation sonic youth s 1988 album daydream nation is one of the great rock albums of the last 25 years it s the record on which after releasing several noisy experimental and sometimes inconsistent but generally good albums sonic youth took a bold step towards accessibility without selling out there s noise and strange beauty but there are also some great rock songs there too daydream nation was well received on its release and got a lot of good reviews which is how it ended up being the first sy album i bought i loved it from the first listen and still think it s one of the highlights of their long productive and still ongoing career so when i heard that the album would be profiled in one of the 33 1 3 books i was really looking forward to reading it then i hit matthew stearns s wall of prose example if the act of listening to music requires some degree of participatory commitment from the listener and if that commitment itself takes place as a kind of merging and identifying with the action and drama of the record then daydream nation asks for one hell of a commitment based on the sheer scope of its attack daydream nation poses a direct imminent threat to the safety and well being of its listeners at the very least it threatens the security and structural viability of its listener s ears this record eats ears chews them up with its gnarled sonic teeth and swallows them whole in this sense it s perfectly appropriate and not shameful at all to be slightly frightened by daydream nation by reputation and in size it stands as a kind of outsized rock n roll behemoth an overwhelming monstrosity in the sense that monsters typically tend to be born of extremes rife with power difficult to contain and mythic in proportion daydream nation certainly meets all of these qualifications capable of crushing the will of the most resilient well intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven t been made um no never mind that swallowing something whole generally involves no chewing this is unrestrained and undeniably enthusiastic a rush of words written with passion and it was probably a blast to write but it doesn t make for good reading the book does have a lot of information stearns had some access to band members and sy s lee ranaldo wrote an introduction but that prose style just never lets up i ve read a dozen books in this series but this one was the only one i had to struggle to finish 33 1 3 rum sodomy the lash 2008 may 7 2009 posted by sjroby in book reviews music tags 33 1 3 jeffrey t roesgen the pogues add a comment jeffrey t roesgen rum sodomy the lash the 33 1 3 series is a series of small paperback books averaging around a hundred or so pages that take a look at a particular album jeffrey t roesgen s rum sodomy the lash is about the pogues 1985 album of that name instead of just going into the history of the band and the making of the album the way a lot of books in that series do roesgen uses the album s cover art the raft of the medusa with the faces of band members superimposed over some of the people s faces in the painting to tell a version of the story of the post napoleonic sailing disaster of the medusa with the pogues as characters aboard the ship alternating with nonfiction sections on the album s songs a couple of other books in the series have been works of fiction that somehow involve the album in question so it s not an entirely unprecedented approach given the historical focus of many of the album s songs it works surprisingly well the naval themed album title the choice of artwork the songs that range from the american west to the shores of gallipoli to traditional irish songs the pogues involvement in some alex cox movies and the fact that the pogues were anything but a purist irish folk band all make an anachronistic naval adventure a good fit what starts off as a bit of a romp grows steadily darker as an inexperienced ship captain and his inexperienced navigator holding their posts by virtue of supporting the monarchy but overseeing a crew and officers who were supporters of napoleon take their ship into dangerous waters off the coast of africa whether there s supposed to be much resonance between the story and the actual career of the pogues at that time is questionable but it works in tying different strands of the album into a whole a bit more nonfiction might have been helpful but as the bibliography points out there are several other books on the band heck i ve got one myself anne scanlon s the pogues the lost decade though it was written and published years before the end of the band roesgen interrupts his fictional narrative every so often with a section a few pages long named after a particular song there s some information on the song and a few comments on other related matters then back to the story overall while not necessarily the most informative book in the 33 1 3 series it s insightful and entertaining enoise may 7 2009 posted by sjroby in music tags brian eno david bowie devo lou stathis roxy music ultravox add a comment brian eno before and after science e noise eno noise doesn t rhyme with eloise lou stathis in 1980 in the world of rok and by that i don t mean the tuna fish that you get on your radio all that was authentic to the seventies can be summed up in about four words roxy music and sex pistols okay you can stop twitching and yelling i did not say that these two bands were responsible for the only decent music to come out of the last ten years only that most anything interesting created during that time was built on groundwork laid either by these two bands or the seminal groups of the sixties such as the beatles pink floyd king crimson the soft machine iggy and the stooges and the velvet underground roxy music s brian eno probably was is the most important figure in seventies rok i suppose i could go back and amend the opening of this column to read that the seventies could be summed up in three letters but that would be too much for even me to take seriously i ve heard it said that eno s seven deadly finns single of 1974 was singlehandedly responsible for the new wave that too is just a bit much as a direct result we have dozens of groups mining territory today that eno showed was worth diddling around in bands like the cars magazine gary numan and tubeway army wire devo the residents pere ubu talking heads xtc and a whole crock of others all of whom will swear on elvis s grave that they were playing that way long before they ever heard the limey wimp s name to say nothing of the rehabilitation job he did at the old folks studio on fripp and bowie that s from his inaugural muzick column in the january 1980 issue of heavy metal the adult illustrated fantasy magazine his february column ended with something that was almost a shopping list for me duty now for the future the 1980 future mutant s core record collection listed necessary records by brian eno the man anything period devo david bowie ultravox magazine gary numan and tubeway army bill nelson s red noise xtc talking heads the contortions james white and the blacks the urban verbs the normal the silicon teens cowboys international and pere ubu i had already discovered bowie devo and numan by then within the next couple of years i had albums by ultravox magazine bill nelson xtc the urban verbs and cowboys international in years since i ve gotten more stuff by them and by the talking heads the normal the silicon teens and pere ubu a lot of this stuff which stathis dubbed enoise i e eno influenced postpunk incorporating electronics was in some sense a cross between the sex pistols and roxy music nearly 30 years later i still love those sounds and those bands their influence is still around as various subgenres and revivals over the last few years like disco punk and the postpunk revival demonstrate eno himself is still around too still doing ambient music installations that generate albums like compact forest proposal and kite music and collaborating with a everyone from paul simon to coldplay and u2 he s more an elder statesman than a revolutionary now but he s still capable of creating interesting music many of the people in the bands stathis listed are still doing great things too lou stathis went on to other things including editing 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