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Paul Morley shows off

Kattullus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:18:17 -0800

Showing Off is a series of videos, audio clips and articles in which noted music journalist and Frankie Goes to Hollywood mastermind Paul Morley explores various facets of music. Each month has a theme, [warning: most links have autoplaying video] Michael Jackson, Kraftwerk, classical music, disco, The Beatles, folk music, The X Factor, the Noughties, the next big thing, UK hip hop, jazz, and dance. Here is some of what's on offer: MeFi faves Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip on hip hop, These New Puritans' Jack Barnett, Johnny Marr on folk (parts 1, 2), but isn't all just interviews, there are also a lot of performances, e.g. Michael Nyman and David McAlmont, Badly Drawn Boy, Susanna Wallumrød covers Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, and Cornershop cover Norwegian Wood.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:19:47 -0800

These New Puritans are my favorite recent thing in pop music. There's an interesting double feature on them as well as The xx by Paul Morley in the most recent Arena Homme +. And the Kraftwerk episode was posted previously.

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:14:01 -0800

Paul Morley's prose, chock full of dependent clauses, crammed with self-consciously and increasingly overblown references, surging, splurging, even urging its way onto the written page, crammed as it is with sesquipedalian words filled with the pretentious overwrought imagery of a J-school hack, forcing its ever-overreaching metaphorically excessively indulgent flabby pustulant writhing nodules of mind-grape juice into our mind through our visual orbs in their orifices, is a bit much for my taste.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:46:48 -0800

Oh, he must've been that tosser who wrote Lipstick Traces.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:54:59 -0800

Thanks for this! Very interesting. > [warning: most links have autoplaying video] Thank you, NoScript.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:57:11 -0800

> sesquipedalian Too bad funny Double Dactyls were so much harder to write than funny limericks. I miss 'em.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:05:18 -0800

If you liked the Cornershop version of "Norwegian Wood," the studio version that appears on their album When I was Born for the Seventh Time is worth checking out. It's really beautiful.

By: marienbad

marienbad — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:52:48 -0800

i logged in to favourite kcds's comment. absolutely spot on.

By: Seekerofsplendor

Seekerofsplendor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:21:02 -0800

i logged in to favourite kcds's comment. absolutely spot on. I second the motion (and kcds's). For one thing, Morley's bit on jazz was one of the most pretentious pieces of crap I've heard in a while.