"roooooooar"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
:) Scans of pretty much every page of pretty much every issue of Smash Hits here. Found myself preferring Neil Tennant's 1984 singles reviews over sleep at 3am last night.
― dorsalstop, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
wow those Danni reviews are kinda fun/mostly wtf
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
Living Colour "sounds a bit like Paul Simon"
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
Thanks! Could have sworn it was Number One
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Did Neil Tennant ever give The Icicle Works a bad review? Ian McNabb charmingly wished death on him on Twitter a few years ago
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Besides, Alfred, I've seen others suggest that the album should have been sequenced differently.
Someone on Spectrum Culture apparently gave it a shot, shortening the album to 11 tracks. I don't think it's entirely an improvement, but opening with "Letter to Memphis" and closing with "Motorway to Roswell" is a pretty great idea. Something close to a swap of Sides A and B (save for "Letter to Memphis" and "Motorway to Roswell" which I'd keep at both ends) may be on the right track.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
It's temping to cut it down to the 10 or 12 best cuts and make like a 25+ minute album as a throwback to some the super-short rock LP's of the '50s. The fact that most of the songs are so short even goes along with the concept.
(Black Francis: “A lot of the arrangements were pretty short, and Gil suggested we lengthen them...I went out, picked up a Buddy Holly record and played him one of the songs, which was about a minute and fourteen seconds. I said: ‘Gil, there you go. It doesn’t get any more classic than this rock n’ roll right here. Look how short these arrangements are.’ He decided not to fight me on that point...") FWIW, the only three Buddy Holly albums released in Holly's lifetime ran for 25:59, 24:35 and 25:06 respectively.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
I absolutely never play the Pixies anymore -- if I ever did; I never warmed to them like I did the Breeders -- but this remains my go-to album.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
one of my favorite album endings, actually. "Motorway to Roswell" so devastating that I need a weird coda to let the pressure off.
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
(and 2022 has been my year of crying to "Motorway")
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Thursday, 29 December 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link