― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:34 (twenty years ago) link
― ham on rye (ham on rye), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 September 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link
Aussie buddy Tom Morgan of Smudge wrote most of this record ['Come on Feel the Lemonheads'], and though I'm sure he made some nice money on the royalties for "Into Your Arms", he couldn't have been too happy that a druggie pinup boy reaped all the career-extending rewards.
anyone with either an internet connection or the album itself could tell you that (a) morgan shares co-writing credit with evan dando on 8 out of 15 songs and gets full credit on none, which is not the same thing as writing "most of the record" and (b) morgan had nothing to do with writing "into your arms," that was by another aussie, robyn st. clare, though maybe all those aussie pop geniuses look alike.
frankly, i don't think it's that huge a deal, but then again my name does happen to be...
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
it's true! we all look like shabby longhairs
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
― John 2, Thursday, 25 September 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
also, i try not to miss any chance to enter tom morgan and robyn st. clare into the discussion.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Jester, Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
I'm enjoying the article, not for any one album critique in particular but because it gives me a rather neat snapshot of a particular span of time, from when I first discovered, uh, alternative via MTV's 120 Minutes and bought a couple of the records named (a Lush album, actually just found my old cassette of "Happy Days" by Catherine Wheel, "Honey's Dead," "Psalm 69," Sugar, Belly, etc.).. and then saw nearly all the rest of them either show up at my college radio station & get trashed mercilessly by the staff, or already on the shelves of the radio station, never getting airplay.
Thing is I no longer fret so much about what kinda music is cool & actually rebought a couple of albums I'd ditched because, you know, I LIKE Ministry & recently discovered how Depeche Mode are utter genius (and did plenty of brilliant songs well after 1990) & Lush & Belly have some great singles, and I wish I could find my tape of "Harmacy" because "Beauty of the Ride" is another all-time fave of mine.
And who sells "Last Splash"? It never gets old! Nobody sells that! :)
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
Well as I recall he did that Fischerspooner review and made that astonishing observation wrt Royksopp and microhouse.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.ad.nl/images/posh.jpg
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:32 (twenty years ago) link
I LIKE Ministry & recently discovered how Depeche Mode are utter genius (and did plenty of brilliant songs well after 1990) & Lush & Belly have some great singles
Daria G just became Dan's and my closest friend.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
Tim, yeah, as soon as I typed that I did think, 'oh, Fischerspooner.'
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
...which is still wrong.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:41 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
I can't help but smile...
― johnypants, Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― mcwop23, Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
UPDATE: DAMN YOU JORDAN!!!! NOBODY steals my lame replies!
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
(or else i'll start thinking i'm losing my touch)
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Brooke Hardy, Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 25 September 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
For what it's worth, Ott probably turned a couple kids onto Ministry. For that I can forgive most any flaws.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 25 September 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 26 September 2003 08:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Daron Gardner (Daron Gardner), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
To ‘clear that up,’ in August, PFM had more unique hits than Spin has monthly subscribers. (But this, of course, does not mean that PFM has more readers because that stat doesn’t take into account Spin’s newsstand sales, comp list recipients, and that multiple ppl read each circulated copy of a magazine.)
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link