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The Naked Maja.

http://nostudium.blogspot.com

Pretty well more of the same, I'm afraid: decided for the time being not to make any radical changes to the format - I still feel the need to write about life and music and how they intertwine. Church of Me II more or less, but written from the perspective of a changed life.

Anyway, it's now up and running and there's a link to it from CoM; back in business, as the saying goes :-) hope you enjoy it...

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 12 October 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This is great stuff, Marcello.

― adaml (adaml), Sunday, 12 October 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

first impression: it's nice not to have to squint to read it!

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah! Then you can get a second book deal and become even more famous, I tell you (I have high hopes, see).

(Oh yeah, Marcello, are you planning on showing up for the big Tom Ewing megabash on Friday? Reminds me I should start a new thread...)

― Ned at Martin's place (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

re: the braver-than-thou pitman review - it's never really made explicit why the record leaves the streets and dizzee rascal "spluttering in the dust". the deeper your despair, disdain, disgust, dirt, the better your album? we're taken further down into the darkest, dimmest pits of britain 2003's diseased soul? why's the relative hamminess/happiness of 'original pirate material' read as weakenss/inauthenticity? and 'boy in da corner' has already been canonized to the point of there existing some tremendous gap between listener and album? what did it, the mercury music prize? the blogs? the idea that my relationship with 'corner' is somehow necessarily strained after media/net/fan hype is kinda absurd. (changed, yes. strained, no.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one more gripe: if dido gets to be 'music for women' (mm hmm), does seal? if not, why not? if so, why's it alright to pin that unqualified 'ghastly' on the seal album while dido detractors are all casual misogynists? (okay, i'll concede, these are phrased pretty pointedly - you mentioned seal in the context of trevor horn productions, and didn't imply that all seal, or seal-i-ness, is ghastly. still, i want reasoning.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Good to have Marcello back in blogging action.

But come on: Dido - the music is blatantly targeted at a certain type of 20s/ 30s women - that hardly buy any music, and tune into Heart 106.2 by choice. These women went on in their masses to make Dido the fastest selling album for over 6 years in the UK.

Can you see any man on ILM in his 20s/ 30s - saying they have the new Dido album and then endorsing it?

[There is also a choice between The Creatures and Laika on one side and Dido on on the other.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

he gives horn too much/many credit[s].

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dj martian, i think you just proved marcello's point.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

he gives horn too much/many credit[s].

Yo Marcello - good stuff but further to RJG's comment see quote from band re: Stay Loose pasted here.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 12 October 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I see in this month's Uncut that Horn sez that initially he wasn't particularly keen on doing "Stay Loose" because he thought it was the sort of thing "people would expect me to do." Quite agree with N's comment on t'other thread, though! :-)

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 13 October 2003 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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