Yes, Girls Aloud NAILED the retro 60’s Girl Group sound with The Promise.
But we really need to speak more about how Sarah’s “Here I Am, Walking Primrose” is one of the genuinely great line deliveries in Pop.
Idyll. Siegfried Sassoon.
This poem, written in the first year after the cessation of horrors, reads like a gasp of relief. In six rhymed pentameter couplets, it sketches a scene of utter peace in the unrealized light of a summer morning before reaching its reason for being.
I call Scorpio Rising (1963) "camp," not to dismiss it but to recognize that Kenneth Anger weaponized pop culture and homoerotic fetishism into high art.
The leather, the pop needle-drops, the motorcycle grease: completely serious, completely rigorous, and entirely bulletproof.
The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient (1991)
What initially seemed an odd collaboration proved a banger and another top 90s dance classic! Accompanied by another bonkers but brilliant video too. #1 in many countries including New Zealand and Canada & #2 UK.🔥
Functional Graphic Design in the 20’s, Eckhard Neumann, 1967. This book documents the 1920s, with its entirely new & functional visual language. The innovative art trends Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism, have influenced development of today’s visual language Functional Graphic Design in the 20’s, Eckhard Neumann, 1967. This book documents the 1920s, with its entirely new & functional visual language. The innovative art trends Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism, have influenced development of today’s visual language https://t.co/yJr87jA1Hj #graphicdesign #graphicdesign
I think this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem has some of the best sounds I know in English. When I read him aloud, I really feel it, his interesting rhythms, his sonics. He had a special ear. Try reading him aloud if wanted, it's a cool experience to get Hopkins in your head.
20 years ago this week, The Long Blondes complete their journey from the best unsigned band in Britain to getting a 9/10 for their debut album on Rough Trade.
You're walking down the street market of SOHO in 1996. The people you miss are still alive, or at least still around, and hope is all you know. The pubs and record shops are thriving, the people are smiling, and you'd never dream of the changes we've become too used to. ⏳️