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“Wealth” from Spirit of Eden was the first song that had me fall in love with Mark Hollis’ holy late period records with Talk Talk, but this highpoint from Laughing Stock may eclipse it. The world imploding as God reveals himself. Now I know where “Reckoner” was born.
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I mean, really, the whole "Earth Sun Moon" album from 1987.
Definitely NO LONGER Bauhaus and NOT goth.
This is a stoic's celebration of life -- there's nothing new in the history of humanity, and that's worth shouting about. As simple as a flower, and that's a complicated thing.
Apr 23, 2024
A grotesque, unsettling musical picture of chaos, massacre and lunacy. There were some years since it was released (1980) where I couldn’t listen to it at all.
It's maybe the most unlikely opening track of an album I've ever heard (despite Ian Curtis' repeated chorus: "This is the way, step inside"). It's based upon a 1970 J.G. Ballard collection of short stories of the same name, which imagines a name-changing protagonist who creates surrealistic fantasies about celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and President Ronald Reagan.
One of the first times in recorded music (long before bands like R.E.M. made a regular practice of this) where I can recall band members swapping instruments; guitarist Bernard Sumner plays bass on the track, bassist Peter Hook "plays" guitar (it's basically one long, wobbly noise scribble).
Super disturbing. I'm always amazed that the band could even pull off a live performance of it. Impossibly influential; you can hear the outline of the Cure's "Pornography," the Swans' catalogue, and much of whatever became to be called "tribal" in the DNA of this track.
Sep 22, 2024
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this one song fits the description but very little of their stuff sounds like this
Sep 22, 2024
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Even though Vincent Gallo might not agree, Soderbergh has hit some unbelievable highs in his career (Ocean’s Eleven, The Girlfriend Experience, Traffic), and apart from Twin Peaks: The Return, a film director has never goated television as hard as The Knick. Performances of the life from Clive Owen and Eve Hewson and my favorite TV score of all time -- big shouts to Cliff Martinez.
Mar 23, 2021
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As perfect a movie as I’ve ever seen. Changed my life the moment I saw it from the barrel chairs of Metrograph with angel Terrence Davies there to speak. A love song to his mother, the movies, and the home in which he grew up. Loaded with a phantasmagorical sound design and mix matched only in emotional impact by the music of Burial.
Mar 23, 2021
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Ever since I got sober 12 years ago and quit smoking shortly after, I’ve craved nicotine. Six years removed from my final cigarette I hit my friend’s Mango Juul Pod at a wedding and I’ve been back and hooked ever since. In a way I enjoy vaping more than I ever did smoking tobacco because it doesn’t make me smell like a degenerate and I can hit it anywhere I go. After some taste tests, I adopted Cool Cucumber like it was my newborn son. Over the past two or three years the fun Juul flavors have all been banned (Cool Cuke included) and I, like many others, have had to venture into the wild west of smoke lottos to find flavored disposable alternatives. Most are disgusting but you don’t know what you’re going to get until you drop $8-$15 and take the first puff. Air Bar Lux’s are built better, hit better and taste better than any disposable vape you’ll find at the shop - the Dyson, the iPhone 4S of nicotine delivery systems.
Mar 23, 2021