Sinister: Nyarko Ticks

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Which is side one, and which side two, of Power,
Corruption and Lies?

I thought about making that a Freaky Trigger thread
but it would have been a bit too specialized and would
not have aided thread congestion.

And for that matter why is 'Age of Consent' so called?
And what *is* the type that you need to be told to
tell you about the birds and the bees? And stuff.

I have only just discovered that the Velvets' 'Who
Loves The Sun' (shouldn't it have a question mark? If
so, it can have the one from my henceforth redundant
question) sounds, lyrically, like some kind of model
for 'I Don't Believe In The Sun'. This raises the
meta-question of Merritt's relation to the Velvets. My
feeling is that he shouldn't like them too much,
thanks to their amateurish formlessness. I hope
someone writes in and says, - !hey, dirtsucker! the
velvets wernt formle.s. or amaturish.

I don't always agree with my editor, but watching
Bacharach last night made me think that his ** very
long-standing** argument that songwriters shouldn't
sing their own material was, if not 'correct', then at
least wise. In a sense I've thought this for a while -
have I ever told him? - and this was just further
confirmation.

All of that is NOT a way of saying that Burt Bacharach
is a bad singer who shouldn't be allowed to sing. He's
a lot better than lots of other singers. I would LIKE
to have 'Burt Bacharach Sings Burt Bacharach'. (In a
sense perhaps it would sound like a covers LP.) No,
it's just the creativity of distance - the extra level
of complexity and play that you introduce by getting
somebody else to sing your song - that I think is
valuable here. I should have been able to assent to
this long ago. I think it was my editor's declaration
that 'The Beatles ruined everything' that spoiled it
for me.

Despite her sometimes dodgy views, I think the gal
'Julie' gives good mail. At least she responded in
detail to 'Sugar World', citing paragraphs and stuff.
Plus, she's feisty and fights her coin, I mean, her
corner. But

1. What did she mean about 'embrace and filter'? These
are very different things: virtually antithetical, one
might say, in some contexts.

2. Looking at the cover of a magazine doesn't tell you
what a band sounds like. (Unless the cover is written
by Simon Reynolds.) I don't know what Destiny's Child
look or sound like. I don't think they have much of a
reputation or profile in my country. We have this
silly band 'Sugababes' instead, see.

3. We don't have MTV where I come from.

4. To talk about Salman Rushdie was a nice touch - but
have SR's pop-cultural admissions done him much good?
I think my editor would disagree. He never liked SR
that much in the first place, but what respect he had
paled and palled once SR started expounding about very
well-known Van Morrison records and the like.

5. Still, I like the near-synasthesia of 'knowledge is
golden', green, etc.

Julie is the Milly Bloom of ice cream studies.


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