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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 12, 2024 17:27:10 GMT
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 12, 2024 23:08:10 GMT
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 14, 2024 14:15:01 GMT
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Post by Horselover Fat on Jul 14, 2024 14:19:51 GMT
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 19, 2024 19:50:50 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 20, 2024 14:18:24 GMT
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 20, 2024 20:10:39 GMT
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Post by MrFurious on Jul 21, 2024 23:29:34 GMT
I've ordered Mick Karn's autobiography "JAPAN AND SELF-EXISTENCE" It will be printed up for me by the publisher and I should receive my edition by the beginning of July. I can't be described as an enthusiastic Japan admirer, though several of their numbers excite me still. Mick Karn died in 2011, young at 52, of cancer. Before that he posted a request for funds on his website so he could return from his place of birth Cyprus (where he had moved because it was cheaper living than London) to the UK for treatment. All of Japan's record royalties went to lead singer David Sylvian as he had been somehow credited as sole songwriter, something Karn fiercely but vainly fought against from the off. He returned to London in September of 2010 by which time the cancer had spread beyond treatment and he passed away the following January. The autobiography is not set in chronological order. It is square in shape and measures 7.5in by 7.5in and should have 388 pages. It is nice to think that a copy of it is about to be made just for me. It was self-published by Karn in 2009. There's stuff about childhood, poverty, disillusionment, arguments in the band and in the music business, stuff about David Sylvian, including how Karn lost his girlfriend, the photographer Yuka Fujii, to Sylvian (the final straw before the band finally broke up) and as the title suggests lots of stuff about self-existence. Well, that makes for a pretty pensive couple of paragraphs, so let's lighten the mood by witnessing the awesome Mick Karn dance, followed by a promotional film from the Seiko Epson Corporation with smiling dancers in it and soundtracked by 'Methods of Dance' (1983) a pulsating number bursting with Karn's rippling bass and further elevated by the ethereal backing vocals of 'Cyo', and nobody ever seemed to know just who she was. She only sings two words, 'moving' and 'learning' as the chorus enters. EDIT - And it always puzzles me how dancers like these remember the routine, with so many specific little moves and gestures. Across the seven minutes of the track. Quite marvellous. And I can't help thinking how if Epson had commissioned this song while Karn was still alive it might have made life a little easier for him. But as explained above he wouldn't have received a single cent anyway.
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 24, 2024 7:41:23 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 26, 2024 15:02:22 GMT
Shop Assistants - I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 26, 2024 21:21:06 GMT
The Killers - This Charming Man (feat. Johnny Marr) (Glastonbury 2019)
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Post by Pangolin on Jul 28, 2024 18:53:00 GMT
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Post by transfuged on Jul 30, 2024 21:52:10 GMT
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Post by transfuged on Jul 31, 2024 20:55:32 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Aug 1, 2024 15:49:10 GMT
Bryan Ferry - She Belongs To Me
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Post by transfuged on Aug 1, 2024 21:15:50 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Aug 2, 2024 11:19:36 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Aug 2, 2024 11:51:06 GMT
New.
X - Smoke & Fiction
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Post by DrKrippen on Aug 2, 2024 12:00:42 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Aug 5, 2024 2:23:22 GMT
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