Gloom, guitars, synthesisers, samples, and sarcasm
typed for your pleasure on 20 March 2009, at 11.40 amSdtrk: ‘Farmland, freeland’ by The Advisory Circle
Yes, another meme (pronounced ‘meh-meh’), courtesy of Veach (pronounced ‘vee-ack’): in no particular order, twenty albums that warped me into the tosser I am today. Ready GO!
+ My bloody valentine Loveless
+ The Human League Dare!
+ The Smiths The Queen is dead
+ New order Power, corruption & lies
+ The Velvet underground and Nico s/t
+ Echo and the Bunnymen Porcupine
+ The Cure Standing on a beach: the singles
+ Joy division Substance
+ David Bowie Changesonebowie
+ Sex pistols Never mind the bollocks
+ Throbbing gristle D.O.A
+ Laibach Macbeth
+ Stereolab Transient random-noise bursts with announcements
+ Broadcast Work and non work
+ Merzbow Great American Nude/Crash for hi-fi
+ NON Easy listening for iron youth
+ the soundtrack to ‘A clockwork orange’
+ The Jesus and Mary chain Psychocandy
+ Pulp Different class
+ France Gall Greatest hits
Granted, my choices for the Cure, Joy division, Bowie, Broadcast, NON, and F.Gall were compilations (o, the shame!), but those were the first releases by those artists that I’d bought, which subsequently hooked me and reeled me in, so I’d consider them to be just as significant in my personal history as the actual albums that the other artists on my list put out. Usually I’m a music snob about compilations — are they albums? No, not really — but I can’t apply that sort of thinking here.
As always, the Marquess of Queensbury Meme Rules apply: I don’t infect people with these, so if you’re keen on it, you’ll have to infect yourself by leaving a comment in the usual area. But then, with the exception of Quentin Crisp, who doesn’t like music?
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