1975 Archive

  • A sore collection of grotesques, the 1939 novella is brilliantly drawn but hard to like. The movie is basically the same. Gunning for epic status, it looks only at one […]

    The Day Of The Locust

    A sore collection of grotesques, the 1939 novella is brilliantly drawn but hard to like. The movie is basically the same. Gunning for epic status, it looks only at one […]

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  • To be more than just the most talented name in CSN&Y, Neil Young needs Crazy Horse. They show his rock & roll guts. “Downtown” fits the dark human corner of […]

    Neil Young – Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown

    To be more than just the most talented name in CSN&Y, Neil Young needs Crazy Horse. They show his rock & roll guts. “Downtown” fits the dark human corner of […]

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  • Barry Lyndon is about the death of feeling. It’s also about Stanley Kubrick. He made a silent film with sound. In the 18th century, a boy becomes a man. Innocence […]

    Barry Lyndon

    Barry Lyndon is about the death of feeling. It’s also about Stanley Kubrick. He made a silent film with sound. In the 18th century, a boy becomes a man. Innocence […]

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  • Bowie the fakir — black-faced, bland, and coming on like kid Bacall, smolder-husk and all — never gets on top of his soul move. The problem is slack execution of slickness. […]

    David Bowie – Young Americans

    Bowie the fakir — black-faced, bland, and coming on like kid Bacall, smolder-husk and all — never gets on top of his soul move. The problem is slack execution of slickness. […]

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  • Context is the key to filling out Young’s sketch melodies. In this way, the band Crazy Horse — prosaic foil mates in pithy lockstep — educe then bail out the […]

    Neil Young – Zuma

    Context is the key to filling out Young’s sketch melodies. In this way, the band Crazy Horse — prosaic foil mates in pithy lockstep — educe then bail out the […]

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