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FWIW, I think Bessie Smith is the greatest blues singer of all time. Someone once told me that listening to her was too painful. She really projects raw emotion which is not going to be to everyone's liking.

Blimey I'd forgotten about that! Is it PP time already? Good!

Absolutely. I think that's a good description actually - "painful" music. That's why I listen to a lot of torch songs.
It's that quality that I love in a lot of the Current 93 and Durtro material, esp Baby Dee and Anthony & The Johnsons. Scott Walker too of course, Aznavour etc...

Balaam and the Angel - "She Knows" EP.
Wonderful nostalgia trip from the ZZ top of Goth!

Next up, Salvation (again) - "All and More". One Bank Holiday drawing to a close, another two to get through!

Currently listening to various pieces from the An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music series of compilations on the Sub Rosa label.

It’s helping to take away the memory of the bitterly disappointing Futurism exhibition that was at the Tate Modern yesterday.

I guarantee you - any Futurism exhibition you'll see won't be as bad as that. I'll just tell you this - all they had were some of the canvases. The first movement to truly make use of modern media and they had NONE of the following...not even a slide or a clip or a print;

No Film

No Photos

No Music

Just the canvases and a few journals - that's it. And let's face it, Futurism has an brutal, ugly side - Fascism....didn't even get a mention. The whole 'They're Fascists who described the noise of war as 'symphony' then went to war and understood the true horror of war' - nothing. It was a Futurism exhibition for five year olds - 'Here's some Italians, they liked machines, look at the lovely colours of the machines! There was a war. The End'

The more I think about it the more utterly bizarre it appears. I blame focus groups and modern living. I'm with Ballard in 'Millennium People' - I predict a riot! I predict a riot!

Right, I'm off to buy the pedestrian 2 disc edition of The Pleasure Principle because I'm stupid and I didn't order the 3 disc edition...Grrrrr!

A grumpy old New Romantic

Spooky! I had a full-on James Ray and the Performance weekend a while back!

"Girl I'll take your love to Texas - this time, believe me...just put your hand in mine. And we'll dance, on the horizon"

Superb

Yeah. It was a lovely surprise when I got home, having spent a wonderful weekend at 'Nelsonica 09' in Harrogate.

Amongst others
ROCK N ROLL DISEASE GREEN ON RED
FRENCH RECORD KATE AND ANNA MCGARRIGLE
FUTURAMA BE BOP DELUXE

Not much time for listening between work and getting the party ready My little princess hits double figures today So one track is de rigeur Not for the first time on Metamatic we're going back to 1981 and this enchanting wee Scottish vixen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K2S0-5Xo0

Help! I'm being sucked into the Gary Numan thing again. The shuffle function on my phone seems obsessed with playing Numan tracks at me. And they're great!

(I must point out that I only have early and late Numan on there. Theres no "middle-years" crud..)

Great stuff! I'll put that on next!!