tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post2089663691560268985..comments2023-10-22T20:57:20.675+08:00Comments on Fragments: Sunshine, moonlight, good timesLottiePhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-26525998017323346522009-07-11T19:23:13.198+08:002009-07-11T19:23:13.198+08:00Au contraire, nmj - you would have been geeky if y...Au contraire, nmj - you would have been geeky if you had heard of him.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11787214538691588685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-400389933369581442009-07-01T01:04:43.014+08:002009-07-01T01:04:43.014+08:00hey lottie, i'm sure if i'd been reading h...hey lottie, i'm sure if i'd been reading him regularly his remarks might have seemed a bit too caustic at times, i would have become weary, but reading those two links yesterday was SO refreshing. his utter honesty & lack of sycophancy in the 1999 glastonbury column made me chuckle. i feel geeky that i had not heard of him.nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-48779400703789431762009-06-29T21:25:47.872+08:002009-06-29T21:25:47.872+08:00I don't think I loved him, NMJ, but I certainl...I don't think I loved him, <b>NMJ</b>, but I certainly admired him. The NME journalists were a cynical, funny and scathing lot - if you were a Smiths fan you had to take a lot of criticism, and they'd wage war on various bands with righteous fury. I remember an entire issue devoted almost solely to whether Paul Simon's <i>Gracelands</i> should be boycotted or not (being in breach of the sanctions against South Africa at the time) - never mind the music, feel the politics.<br /><br />I still kind of admire that vital, cynical, principled voice, but I also think it a shame that anyone's music tastes should be dictated to by the loathings and prejudices of others.LottiePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-82316878881580639842009-06-28T19:32:45.730+08:002009-06-28T19:32:45.730+08:00I did not know of Steven Wells, I was not an NME r...I did not know of Steven Wells, I was not an NME reader, but having just followed your links I think I would have loved him.<br /><br />'Life is getting angry at destroyed cat jigsaws.'<br /><br />That is fabulous.nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.com