Eticanon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't everybody like St Etienne?" asked Steve M on another thread. There's only one way to find out - MAN THE CANONS!

Eight picks.




[Poll #744880]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The first Greatest Hits?

You might well be right.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Julie Burchill one.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That Burchill inlay blurb is one of the finest pieces of music writing I have EVAH read.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

does reynolds mention burchill in rip it up? she is HUGELY IMPORTANT yet curiously under-discussed

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'd like to read the blurb.

i have never read ANY Burchill piece on music!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It really is excellent - I say this as someone with all the default anti-Burchill opinions.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's good enough that I would actually type it up, but I only have that Greatest Hits on cassette and god only knows where any of my old cassettes currently reside (apart from my Whigfield album which is on my windowsill)

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

I've never really read *any* Burchill (including the liner notes, even though I HAVE the album) except for the Paglia-baiting piece, which was like...uh...aim high, I guess?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't really know much about Burchill's pre-90s stuff - she alludes to it all the time in all her columns but for obvious reasons I am never entirely sure whether she is joking/lying/has forgotten/&c.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

she pretty much FOUNDED anti-rockism w/o ever calling it that -- this is 78-81-ish i guess

her early and angry disenchantment with punk and its co-optation was groundbreaking; she wz never interested in post-punk or proto indie really --- charts, motown, girls, these were her beats

she is a great stylist and a world-historical evil!! i doubt much of her writing stands up, though some of her singles columns might

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This explains a lot of the things she refers to! I always wondered why she never got referred to even obliquely in uh 'popist' discourse when, from what I read of her, she was a PURE popist.

She's an amazing stylist - she always makes me think I'd like to agree with her even when the views she is expounding are completely nuts.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

never referred to=
i. she is 1xgurl
ii. somewhat dodgy politix
iii. no interest at all in THEORY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

iv. SNUBBED ILM when we were 13th hit on google for her.

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v. is there a collection of her '78-'81 writings or maybe the modern review stuff.

I know she was very critical of 'england's dreaming'. Caugh a clip of Savage on TV saying something like 'why isn't she here to defend her review of my book?' when someone else showed up.

vi. has anyone read 'sugar rush' the book? maybe her take on pop, etc. is in there even if it might not end up to much as a novel..

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

haha because THEORY - for all that it can be anti-rockist - is v much anti-popist! I can imagine word-for-word the Burchill argument against theory (some of those words would no doubt be "working class heroes like my dead dad never needed it"). I wonder what S Reynolds actually thinks of her.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i remember t.p4rsons once writing that roy hattersley was ok by him bcz in his youth he had broken as chair over a fascist's head!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

isn't "being OK by T Parsons" enough to make any given person "not OK by J Burchill"?!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes! THEORIZE THAT YOU DWEEBS!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Obv. the former list once included his wife, one J Burchill.

[electrodeserter.livejournal.com]

You are not right.