The Sheppard

Fear my fat Dorset hands. [more]

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Latest spins:

The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads by Talking Heads

Young For Eternity by The Subways

Give Up by The Postal Service

The Back Room by Editors

Give Blood by Brakes

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Recent reads:

Margrave Of The Marshes by John Peel

The Sleeping God by Peter F. Hamilton

Thud by Terry Pratchett

The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe

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Contact:

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The Blog

December 17, 2004

Is there a song or an album which you can no longer hear without remembering a time or a place or a person?

The Sleeve Notes

“Public Image Ltd, Flowers of Romance, Virgin, 1981 I admire this record more than I like it and like it more than I love it.

Most of all, I am scared of it.

Flowers of Romance is one of the most extreme sound recordings, let alone LPs of popular music, ever made. Its soundworld � I hesitate to say �production� - is full of gaps where instruments should be but aren�t. At the bottom are the drums, thrashing out strangely familiar but basically weird rhythms; in the middle, but always recessed, brittle bells, scything guitars, something that sounds like sampled opera singers, harsh synths; above it all come John Lydon�s sneeeeering vocals.”

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