Ally96 was brief. But better that than rien. Today I was listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse's LP RAGGED GLORY. Some listee or other gave it to me, I think, at a million-dollar bash. Anyway, I thought of its squalls of sound in terms of pop resemblance: 1. 'Farmer John''s intro reminds me of Graham Coxon. That's not really a good thing, in 2001; but it's no great stain on the hide of the Horse either. This reminds me, by the way. I stuck MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH on the CD the other day. Greeted by minutes of silence, I decided to insert the disc into the player and try again. It disappointed somewhat. 'For Tomorrow' has been acclaimed as a great London story blah blah, but it is so darned *graceless*. There's even that terrible moment when Allbran sings 'tomorr-OHHH!! SINGING!!!' As Batman would have said: DAMON - *OUCH!* I don't know. Is anyone gonna stick up for that LP now? I have just reminded myself, 2. 'Days That Used To Be' is, listen carefully now, *** THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN 'MY BACK PAGES' AND 'I DON'T WANNA GET OVER YOU'. *** Don't believe me? Try it. Thinking about this reminded me of the old, old question about what it is of which 'IDWGOY' is a pastiche. The answer 'nothing' is unhelpful. I have always thought in terms of 'The Oldest Swinger In Town'. HAVE I FAILED? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+