Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bowie, Original…, in reply to kevinM,
I watched a doco on Ziggy Stardust last night, and as well as the Velvet Underground connection, it mentioned that Bowie was at the mixing desk for the Stooges’ “Raw Power”.
He helped try and rescue Iggy's unusable original mixes of the tracks. The story is here on Wikipedia.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bowie, Original…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
oh, Russell. Could you fix this? Haven’t done it for a while and have obviously missed some step in the process.
The step you missed was to NOT DO ANYTHING.
Just paste in the URL :-)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bowie, Original…, in reply to Damian Christie,
Which I did, because meh, come at me spammers. Also it's a nice tune.
I just unfollow the Soundcloud accounts these downloads oblige me to follow if I don't like them. And the Facebook accounts never appear in my newsfeed. It is annoying, though.
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Hard News: Bowie, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Unfortunately, rather than (after the fashion of Steve Coogan) condensing this into a one-shot, half hour programme, they do the satire on the grand canvas of an actual radio station, 30 hours a week for six weeks. This is a bit much.
I think, in the end, this is what bugs me most. The freedom to reverse the usual balance for talk and music could be used to make beautiful radio that inspired a spectrum of responses from an audience that has time to listen. Bring in guests, play country music, rai, acrobat, rocksteady and the records that well-known songs imitated or sampled.
But instead we get these two guys playing novelty records and laughing at their own jokes. It's such a waste of those hours.
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Hard News: Footpaths, not manifest destiny, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
That has the potential to be a really crap metric.
Crime victimisation surveys are a well-established thing – it can be useful to know the total number of people affected by crime in a territory – but I'm not sure it makes sense for the police to be doing it this way.
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Dangerous Minds has a great post:
These fan-shot clips of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars in Dunstable, supporting the then brand-new Ziggy Stardust album on June 21, 1972, have been sync’d up to live recordings. I’m unsure if the audio is from the same show, sometimes they’re really in sync, other times less so, but it’s close enough for rock and roll.
YouTube user bri2kay is who we have to thank for this Ziggiful bounty. Considering the scarcity of Ziggy-era footage, this is gold. And there’s a lot more where these came from.
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Hard News: Bowie, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Even if the DJs wanted to offer less played tracks I found their tone of mixed jocularity and “fuck what the punters want” to be less than pleasant.
Can’t say it made me feel better on a day of sadness.
I was guilty of a negative tweet or two. I don't enjoy the show's format at the best of times and I turned it off fairly quickly today.
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Hard News: Bowie, in reply to izogi,
is there significance in the PM not tweeting about this?
Not really. It was light-hearted. But David Cameron and Andrew Little have ...
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Hard News: Footpaths, not manifest destiny, in reply to Sacha,
Thank you for commenting here, George.
Indeed. We appreciate the engagement.
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Hard News: Bowie, in reply to Soon Lee,
To anyone who ever grew up in a conformist community, where [INSERT NON-MAINSTREAM ACTIVITY HERE] was frowned on if you’re lucky, or got you beaten up or worse if you weren’t, Bowie told us it’s okay to be different in the most emphatic way possible: he lived it.
Philip Matthews noted on Twitter just now that we haven't had a Bowie tweet from John Key (Andrew Little paid tribute last night – favourite album Station to Station.)
Well, he is the guy who told the Dom Post's "Taste Test" his favourite music was "Easy listening". In a way, they're polar opposites – the bright, brave freak and the beige fitter-in.
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