Posts by philipmatthews
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This is Friday and we should probably post great Goth songs, right? (there are some ... )
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One positive about Gothdom, I always thought, was that it allowed for femininity -- both in girls and boys. It wasn't a sexist scene, and it was far from macho -- which even punk and other things around in the 80s were. There wasn't much objectifying of women going on and no homophobia, from what I remember. Historically, it came out of glam as much as post-punk, or merged the two traditions. (crucial fact: Siouxise met Steve Severin at a Roxy Music concert.)
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More at the Meat Puppets end than the Poison end. I've been enjoying the Bruce Russell-compiled Time to Go -- the Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86, on Flying Nun. The least obvious F Nun compilation in years -- perhaps ever. Bruce's theme is about a psychedelic movement in South Island post-punk music, and it stands up.
Among the 20 tracks, possibly the Tall Dwarfs' saddest and prettiest:
Scorched Earth Policy's Since the Accident: easily one of the most unwholesome-sounding songs ever recorded in NZ:
The Pin Group's Jim:
I can't figure out why I never really liked this group at the time (Look Blue Go Purple):
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Lilith __,
listening to (and taping) Casey Kasem's American Top 40
Far out. I used to listen to that on my Dad's old valve radio. And tape the songs I liked by holding a mic up to the (embroidered) speaker. I still remember the clunk between tracks caused by pressing stop on the tape deck.More formative for me was when Radio with Pictures was simulcast on radio in the early 1980s (no idea what station -- not Radio B?). Getting random mix tapes that would capture Birthday Party, The Fall, whatever.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I can find out for you, Geoff, next time I'm at Press HQ.
I also listened avidly -- nerdishly -- to Casey Kasam on whatever Christchurch AM station played it in the late 70s; I still have a love/hate relationship with the soporific, dreamy sound of 70s rock filtered through a cheap radio (10cc, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles).
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Magic Man by Heart? I always thought it was put to very good use by Sofia Coppola in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES:
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While we're getting kosmiche.
Sometimes I suspect that Neu! one is the best song ever written ...
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
I blame the Risky Business soundtrack for igniting my interest. Others for some reason remember Tom Cruise in his undies.
Nothing wrong with Tangerine Dream. But you need to go about a decade earlier than that soundtrack (their stuff got steadily worse from about the late 70s). Zeit is the classic:
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Dolly Parton version?
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And Christian rock? Once, searching for "Let My People Go", I came across this. Big in Germany ...