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Dr Baker's Backtracking: Sound Affects
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Wednesday, 5 September 2012. In some ways, the sound of Sound Affects. And the lyrics are an urgent and punkish kiss-off: ‘I want nothing this society’s got’. The expressed desire to escape, to go underground, signposts the unfinished pastoral or psychedelic musical road that led, ultimately, to the failed rave-up renewal of The Gift. That it sounds like something from Setting Sons. Opposed to power is vision. In ‘Set the House Ablaz...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: December 2012
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Saturday, 22 December 2012. This Is The Modern World. The Jam's second lp, released in late 1977, was seen at the time as a commercial failure, rushed, presaging Weller's 'drying up' in early '78 that would precipitate the crisis over All Mod Cons (where producer Chris Parry told the band that a batch of recorded demons weren't good enough). But it would be wrong to see This Is The Modern World. As a re-hashing of In The City. Squeezed bet...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: An Introduction
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Tuesday, 4 September 2012. On this blog I'll be writing about some of my favourite albums, in particular looking backwards at sequences of lps. I'm starting with The Jam, and will work backwards from The Gift. To In the City. Upcoming: Julian Cope 1990-1980; The Smiths; Pixies; The Jesus and Mary Chain. Hopefully. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile.
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(SF) 365: April 2014
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Negotiating science fiction, film and other things. Friday, 25 April 2014. Over the past few days I’ve watched the first two films of two trilogies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. And The Desolation of Smaug. And The Bourne Identity. And The Bourne Supremacy. None of them I found particularly happy experiences, which is especially problematic with regard to The Hobbit. An adaptation of a children's adventure story, after all), which I found very gloomy, much more so than The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo ...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: November 2012
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Thursday, 8 November 2012. I now know that OMD hail from the Wirral, and that Sealand is a place near Chester. (That takes away the mystique somehow.) But I still like the album a lot. Then comes 'Sealand'. What can you do with that? Electro-pop for the masses or electronic esoterica for the. Pop music for nerds? Not quite. But. Does pull off the trick of being at once experimental and with genuine pop hits, is of a particular and definiti...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: September 2012
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Wednesday, 5 September 2012. In some ways, the sound of Sound Affects. And the lyrics are an urgent and punkish kiss-off: ‘I want nothing this society’s got’. The expressed desire to escape, to go underground, signposts the unfinished pastoral or psychedelic musical road that led, ultimately, to the failed rave-up renewal of The Gift. That it sounds like something from Setting Sons. Opposed to power is vision. In ‘Set the House Ablaz...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: This Is The Modern World
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Saturday, 22 December 2012. This Is The Modern World. The Jam's second lp, released in late 1977, was seen at the time as a commercial failure, rushed, presaging Weller's 'drying up' in early '78 that would precipitate the crisis over All Mod Cons (where producer Chris Parry told the band that a batch of recorded demons weren't good enough). But it would be wrong to see This Is The Modern World. As a re-hashing of In The City. Squeezed bet...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking: OMD: Electro-nerd-pop
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Thursday, 8 November 2012. I now know that OMD hail from the Wirral, and that Sealand is a place near Chester. (That takes away the mystique somehow.) But I still like the album a lot. Then comes 'Sealand'. What can you do with that? Electro-pop for the masses or electronic esoterica for the. Pop music for nerds? Not quite. But. Does pull off the trick of being at once experimental and with genuine pop hits, is of a particular and definiti...
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Dr Baker's Backtracking
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Footsteps through the back pages of my (mostly) vinyl collection. Tuesday, 9 October 2012. For a long while, Setting Sons. Was my most-played Jam lp. I think I bought it second, after The Gift. And curiously enough, Setting Sons. Has some things in common with their last album. For a start, it's a bit of a bodge job. It began life as, curiously, a 'concept album', that late 60s/ 70s album format which was largely spawned by The Who's Tommy. Well, it's clearly down to The Who. If Pete did it in Tommy.
