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THE STROKES (2001): The future, the past or just passing through?
These are indeed worrying times. Steel birds fall from the sky,
tall towers tumble to earth, rumours of war is the way of it if you
are an innocent citizen, and the end of the world is apparently upon
us. Nostradamus warned us of these times.
Jezzus, I wished he'd warned us about the Strokes as well.
In case you've missed the current...
> absoluteelsewhere/3147/the-strokes-2001-the-future-the-past-or-just-passing-through/
The MC5: The Big Bang! The Best of the MC5 (2000 compilation)
Writing against the tenor of these times, let it be said that sometimes there's no particular advantage in being first. Take Detroit's MC5. Essentially they made snotty, loud, politicised rock'n'roll. Like the Clash?
Sort of - except of their era, which was, unfortunately for them, the confusing period at the start of which Magical...
> essentialelsewhere/2246/the-mc5-the-big-bang-the-best-of-the-mc5-2000-compilation/
THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST DVD REVIEWED (2007)
If you want to capture the essence of the 70s in a word it's "hair". At the start of the decade there were Afros and cascades of curls halfway down backs (that's the men) and the long straight stuff with fringes (the women -- and Noddy Holder from Slade). By mid-decade there were dreadlocks, moustaches and big...
> film/821/the-old-grey-whistle-test-dvd-reviewed-2007/
IGGY POP AND THE STOOGES, AGAIN: Loud, fast and out of control
A few years ago, a cartoon in a rock magazine captured the essence of the Stooges. It showed a guy in headphones whose head had exploded and his friend in the other room saying over his shoulder, "So what do you think of the remastered version of Raw Power?" The Stooges, fronted by Iggy Pop, delivered that kind of sonic intensity on...
> absoluteelsewhere/400/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-again-loud-fast-and-out-of-control/
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