Lost Chords & Serenades Divine
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #12: Safe as Milk Dialogue
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #12 by Stephen McClurg and John King Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Safe as Milk (1967) STEPHEN: Unlike Machine Head, Safe as Milk has been a favorite album for about two decades, though I felt late to the Beefheart party. After college, I played music regularly and met several Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #11: Machine Head Dialogue
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #11 by Stephen McClurg and John King Deep Purple: Machine Head (1972) In my weekly blog post, I discussed the recent circumstances that led me to hearing Deep Purple’s classic album for the first time. John won’t shut up about it. JOHN: Turns out a “machine head” is the part Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10: Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10 by Stephen McClurg Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life (1994) […]For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9: Stump: Quirk Out (1986)
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9 by Stephen McClurg Stump: Quirk Out (1986) Stump, a band difficult to categorize, is compared most frequently to Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Stump formed right around the time that Beefheart’s last official album, Ice Cream for Crow (1982), came out, so maybe something in the ether passed Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #8 : Oumou Sangaré: Mogoya (2017)
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #8 by Stephen McClurg Oumou Sangaré: Mogoya (2017) Innovation in pop music seems connected to production rather than musicianship. I hear great sounds and textures sometimes in pop music, but it’s rare I get excited by musical performance. Maybe that’s my own failing in not putting in the listening hours Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #7: Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #7 by Stephen McClurg Angles 9: Disappeared Behind the Sun (2017) If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it’s about Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6: John Maus: Screen Memories
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6 by Stephen McClurg John Maus: Screen Memories (2017) The less music is a language sui generis to them, the more does it become established as such a receptacle. The autonomy of music is replaced by a mere socio-psychological function. Music today is largely a social cement. […] Individuals of Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #5: Hellraisers
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #5 by Stephen McClurg Hellraisers: A Complete Visual History of Metal Mayhem (2017) Fists are in the air, banging everywhere! Thrashing to the sound, Face melting down! It’s time to fight for metal tonight! Bangers take your stand and obey… our metal command! —Exodus, “Metal Command” The coffee table books Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #4: Fever Ray’s Plunge
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #4 by Stephen McClurg Fever Ray: Plunge (2017) “Seeing these exhibitions I’ve longed to laugh, with the rest, but that strange imitation was impossible. Taking a penknife with a sharp-edged blade, I slit the flesh at the points joining the lips. For an instant I believed my aim was achieved. Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3: Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3 by Stephen McClurg Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017) The writers and composers work the street. Bach’s new score is crumpled in his pocket, Dante sways his ass-cheeks to the beat. ~ from “Hollywood Elegies” by Bertolt Brecht (trans. Adam Kirsch) Sparks has maintained their standards and strangeness throughout more than a Continue reading
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