Surprisingly Phil's the best (and I mean Collins not Manzanera) but I also like the Chapman Stick chappie.
There's also this
Not forgetting this "reinterpretation" / tribute, which sounded like tomorrow when it came out, but at the same time also sounded like yesternever... Everybody involved's greatest moment? Especially with the awesome promo video.
Finally, the source of the title
Oh, go on then, the original - or rather a supposedly trippier early version
And the immaculate conception
Probably the single most enjoyable reaction I got to Retromania was those people who pooh-poohed the idea of 2000s music as especially derivative / backward-looking and insisted that this was actually how things have always been - upping the ante by asserting that The Beatles were retro. How's about that then for DENIAL?
That's pretty much the reaction I get every time I bring up timelessness vs. retro while interviewing artists who had their big moment in the 2000s (the last were Franz Ferdinand, who reacted with a pinch of social constructivism and said a study of retromania could be done at any time in history - esp the future).
ReplyDeleteGood to see Danielle Dax in the list. Pop-Eyes deserves more love.