Tony Banks is the keyboardist for Genesis, and being a keyboardist in a rock band is usually a pretty thankless job. No matter how good their licks may be, most fans, members of the media, and groupies are more interested in the singer, guitarist, drummer and even the bass player than the keyboardist. That's because, quite frankly, there's no way anyone can make playing the keyboards look cool. But back in the 70s and 80s Banks probably had it even rougher than most keyboardists when it came to making a name for himself. First Peter Gabriel leaves the [...]
Now that I have a great turntable and pre-amp, I've been visiting the archives to see which albums and singles deserve to be re-recorded and re-posted. Obviously, the soundtrack to Urgh! A Music War was one of the first on the list. These new recordings sound light-years better than my last attempt, and I highly recommended you download them even if you have an older copy I posted. I've talked about Urgh! several times over, so I'll keep the intro brief. It's an amazing document of a time period in music, when the punk [...]
OMM, remember Toyah Wilcox!! Filed under: Beats , Chirp Tagged: album , albums , ingle , new , single , toyah , wilcox
Imprint Genre: Gothic / Experimental / Post punk From: London and South East, United Kingdom [...]
First things first - RIP Lux Interior... Now, onto the business, and this business was much, much delayed. In April of 2006 I put up the soundtrack Urgh! to much fanfare around the blogosphere (God I hate that "word") so much so that I had to get a server upgrade. Unfortunately, as it was pointed out to me several months ago those files were recorded on a turntable that spun too fucking fast. Since then I had been meaning to re-record the tracks and repost them, but life can be a bitch. Well, I [...]
In today's installment of Armagideon Time's Halloween Countdown, the esteemed Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana reads a passage from the Dictionary of Popcult Shorthand ... Reductive? Certainly. Culturally insensitive? Probably, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better resource for drag-and-drop plot devices that won't tax your audience's thinkin' muscles. Leave the detailed explanations of syncretistic religion, the Loa , and their interdependant relationships to the anthropologists, this is what the audience expects... ...so why let a little thing like accuracy [...]
As I mentioned a few posts back, I worked at a college library for a time in the mid-1990's. I mostly worked evenings and weekends. Because it was located at a commuter school, things were usually dead during my shifts, especially during the summer intersession, and I spent much of my time reading up on a wide variety of subjects. (My record was four 200-page history texts in the space of eight hours.) One of my job responsibilities was conducting periodic floor sweeps -- picking up stray books for reshelving and announcing the closing time to the sparse [...]
I got an email from someone asking about Urgh! and I thought that in an effort to make things a bit more streamlined and easy to navigate, Id make this post which includes every single song from the Urgh! soundtrack as well as some bonus ones. I'm not the most organized person in the world, and it shows in the haphazard nature in which these tracks were originally put up. I hope this makes things a little easier for everyone. And if anyone is still looking for the long-deleted Urgh! Yahoo! Group (wow [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
Ondatrópica – Punkero Sonidero
