The art of redecoration

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Whether it’s Wendy/Walter Carlos dishing up electronic Beethoven, Keith Emerson microwaving Mussorgsky, Mark E Smith ransacking Lost In Music for its inner punk, Roxy Music depriving In The Midnight Hour of any vestige of soul or The Band and The Who vying for the roughest, rockiest version of Marvin Gaye’s Baby Don’t You Do It, the history of popular music has been littered with cover versions good, bad and plug ugly. Here are some of the most inspired… Continue reading

Pretzel Logic Revisited

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“So, you’ve finally got into ’em, eh? Took yer bleedin’ time, you Johnny Come Extremely Latelys. Think this one’s good? Hah! You haven’t lived, mate. You should hear the earlier, funnier ones. Infinitely better.” Pretzel logic? As in twisted, right? Continue reading

The Fine Art of Croweing

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Martin Scorsese tips his titfer to acts that forged their legends in the Sixties – Van Morrison, The Stones, Smokey – and cranks up the volume; Cameron Crowe flies the Seventies flag, rummaging through his tattered review copies and turning the dial down to five. Continue reading