The Future Is In All Of Us

[redliner]

The Max Yellow line is a light rail that travels between North Portland and downtown. I ride it north to get home. Tonight I boarded in downtown and the first thing I hear is a loud, clownish voice say "You never heard of a band called Sweet?" I turned to see the man posing the question

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[lostcosmonaut]

inertiacrept is still a great read when he's not not around, but you're already aware of that. liamtheruiner updates on th regular and is an interesting person to know and great source of music & general media junkie material. andrewjvb is probably my favourite of th people still updating -- v. idiosyncratic worldview, like a visitor from a foreign country who speaks accent-less American English. unomoralez is a collector of freaky images. everyday_i_show aggregates work by good famous photographers ... Those last two are Russian accounts. You have to dig a bit deeper when a site's this dead ......

Let me know if you find any other good ones !

--mza.

[redliner]

I will be digesting and reporting back.

[tdaschel]

.. okay, okay, i'm back from the Wikipedia. was familiar with their early hits, but never made the connection between them and "Love is Like Oxygen," which - for all i know - was tearing up th' Charts roundabout the same time as "Magnet and Steel." i have THEORIES about 1978 / that 1978 saw the end of a certain .. sub.era of 70's Radio. inna sense it may've marked the beginning of an Interzone(?) that ended in 1982 with the Death of AOR (which, really, was asking for it ..) and the rise of British Synth-Pop. .. and after all this time, i can finally get some perspective on Bowie's Let's Dance lp. it was (sorta) as radical a move as anything he did in the, um, Classic Bowie Era. some critics were writing Bowie off, saying that he'd been eclipsed by Gary Numan / and Bowie makes a record that's guitar (regardless of how one feels about his Dead Texas Sideman, he aquitted himself well on the album), rather than synth-based. one irony, i guess, is Joe Carducci - who blames everything on Bowie in Rock and the Pop Narcotic - doesn't

[redliner]

You've made me realize that Bowie's use of guitar and piano are sort of regressive in a punk rock sort of way, when viewed in hindsight with his glam and new wave contemporaries.