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Archive for August 30th, 2007
Stranded II
Posted by s woods on August 30, 2007
Three new Greil Marcus-related pieces regarding Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs (edited by Phil Freeman).
- Everything’s bigger than life for legendary rock critic Greil Marcus... “In a Marcus sentence, every idea is a universe, and every song is a seismic disruption of the tectonic plates of American culture. Do not try this at home.” [Toledo Blade]
- A conversation with… “It’s wrong to force these questions. It’s a completely false choice. I have probably 20 different records I can argue are the greatest. At any given time I feel that the sum total of what human beings can create is contained in the Chiffons’ ‘One Fine Day’ or the Clash’s ‘Complete Control.’” [Toledo Blade]
- Desert Island Dick: (By Kevin John) … “It’s as though Marcus can’t recognize the many vital communities created and reinforced by modern music because they aren’t the globe-spanning movements of his imagination. Or in other words, he doesn’t get it, so it must be ungettable. Ugh.” [Chicago Reader]
All links directly from the Marooned blog, which has more info about the book, plus more links and stuff.
Listening: Kinks, “See My Friends”
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Interview archives re-post: Nelson, Considine, Popoff, Meltzer, Booth, Smucker
Posted by s woods on August 30, 2007
If you can attach first names to all of the above in less than 8.5 seconds, you’re in the right place. The following batch of interviews were re-posted here:
- Paul Nelson (Steven Ward’s interview that really kicked off the whole rockcritics “phenomenon”)
- J.D. Considine
- Martin Popoff
- Richard Meltzer
- Stanley Booth
- Tom Smucker
Speaking of Paul Nelson… More on this later, but see Kevin Avery’s blog, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, an online companion to Avery’s upcoming Nelson bio. Looks pretty amazing.
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