http://www.metafilter.com/tags/perrett Posts tagged with 'perrett' at MetaFilter. Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:12:17 -0800 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:12:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/62536/The%2Dimmortal%2Dstory Three well-received albums, but without selling many of them. One of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rppct2qE_ys">greatest singles ever</a>, but it didn't chart. An acrimonious split after only four years amidst <a href="http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/alexispetridis/story/0,,2050446,00.html">heroin addiction</a> and <a href="http://www.cineplex.com/Movies/FamousNews/MovieNewsFeed.aspx?story=12594">charges of attempted murder</a>. A lead singer and songwriter who descended into a quarter of a century of addiction: first heroin, then crack, just about staying alive, but only just. But <a href="http://www.theonlyones.biz/">The Only Ones</a> are back, dubbed as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_x2aS70e0">cult heroes</a>, and acknowledged as an influence on bands like Nirvana, The Replacements, Blur and The Libertines. Just a <a href="http://www.theonlyones.biz/images/porto_peter.jpg"><i>little</i> haggard and worn</a>, but <a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/music/wireless/index.html?channel=&id=83&reading=1">playing live again</a> (The Big Sleep, Another Girl) after twenty-five years. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62536 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:12:17 -0800 gnarled music perrett perry post-punk rock reynir