Record Collector #478
| Periodical Title | Record Collector |
| Editor | Paul Lester |
| Format | Magazine |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| Pages / Font | 146 pages |
| Chapters | Main Features: LUKE HAINES: “Day In, Day Out, Day In, Day Out,” Sang Ian Curtis back in ’78, on Joy Division’s slow dance classic Digital, and if this month’s column had a title it would be “Digital – or how digital music is the mo-fo that slowly cut poor analogue Bambi to death (with a thousand binary paper cuts.” But it isn’t called that, and even though it is an indictment of the cheap but inevitable digital age that we now live in, there is a bit more to it than how Neil Young reckons digital recordings suck dead dogs and analogue is the king of rock’n’roll. This is about the real mojo of rock’n’roll, the walls within which rock’n’roll has extracted its ju ju since Sam Phillips said, “that’s a pop song.” I’m talking about Psycho Acoustics, dad. Catch my drift. FIELD MUSIC: David and Peter Brewis aka Field Music have, on their sixth album Open Here, fashioned a prog-pop, art-funk opus that will appeal to fans of 10cc and XTC, Steely Dan and Peter Gabriel. Kevin Harley meets the Sunderland brainiacs BOB STANLEY: Revolution? Yé-Yé IAN SHIRLEY: Editor of Rare Record Price Guide, answers your questions JILL GIBSON: For many, The Mamas And The Papas embody the luminous spirit of 60s West Coast folk rock. Yet it’s perhaps less known that for a short period during their often combustible history, the iconic four-piece had a replacement member, Jill Gibson. Iain Lee tells the intriguing story and talks extensively to that fifth member. THIN LIZZY: The boy is back in town: early member Eric Bell interviewed JILL GIBSON: Meet The Mamas & The Papas’ surrogate FIELD MUSIC: Strange Brewis – the art-pop brothers on their opus ARTISTS’ RECORDS: When vinyl becomes the canvas... NME: With the iconic paper now digital, the stars from its heyday talk THE ROLLING STONES: An album-by-album guide to The World’s Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band’s live legacy, and the stories behind those immortal gigs. THE COLLECTOR: Getting Ty’d down in hip-hop BOB STANLEY: The soundtrack to the Paris Spring MAC ON BLACK: I am the walrus – and proud: Barry White LUKE HAINES: On psycho acoustics and esoteric analogue DAVID QUANTICK: Pulls up the covers – and with good reason VALUE ADDED FACTS: The Mighty Force of Aphex Twin et al RC INVESTIGATESL: When Saturday comes – the musos hit the dug-out |
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