BROKEN
Things I haven’t heard before, broken rhythms, new music, transcendent innovation, really loud noise, crap records, beautiful monsters.
Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018)
“Tributes to artists often end up being more about the person writing them, but MES provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock’n’roll. I saw the Fall 52 times and without MES my life would have been utterly different and nowhere near as much fun. What on earth are we all going to do with ourselves now?”
“Alphabet Street” by Prince (1988)
“Shade” by IAMDDB (2017)
2017 Review: Music
Here are some of the highlights of the music I listened to the most in 2017.
There’s a full playlist of the tracks I listen to the most here, and a playlist of all the songs I was recommended/found/started listening to in 2017 here.
As always I keep a rolling playlist of stuff I’m listening to at the moment update nearly daily here.
Melatonin by A Tribe Called Quest
To Be A Young Man by Nadine Shah
I Give You Power by Arcade Fire and Mavis Staples
The Heart Part 4 by Kendrick Lamar
How Long by The Pointer Sisters
Open Eye Signal by Jon Hopkins
“Truckload of Ary” by Terry Allen (1979)
Mondo Bellisimo
Wierdos and Oddities. Sounds from the basement.
NO CD by Loyle Carner
Jello Biafra’s Record Collection
I have a really hard time being patient with people who get locked into one era, “Oh there’s no good music after the grunge era, there’s no good music after the sixties.”
Wrong people, you want that energy you liked as a kid? Put down that needle, leave your home and go see somebody new and random. You neve know what’s going to happen to you.
Interview continues here.
But overall I think the best era for music is right now. And the reason I do is because everything is available. Everything. Imagine trying to find fresh rockabilly records in 1975. It’s not like that anymore.
Paul Greer 