1981 Archive

  • Separating the movie The Evil Dead from the phenomenon of Sam Raimi’s early career, of Bruce Campbell’s genre-stardom, of the whole story of the production of the film, is nearly impossible. […]

    The Evil Dead (1981)

    Separating the movie The Evil Dead from the phenomenon of Sam Raimi’s early career, of Bruce Campbell’s genre-stardom, of the whole story of the production of the film, is nearly impossible. […]

    Continue Reading...

  • This peeks at a great band’s demise. Everything that made them connect is here — the way Jimmy Scott uses phasers and harmonics, the way Chrissie Hynde shows tough love […]

    Pretenders – Pretenders II

    This peeks at a great band’s demise. Everything that made them connect is here — the way Jimmy Scott uses phasers and harmonics, the way Chrissie Hynde shows tough love […]

    Continue Reading...

  • To delete the milk and honey out of precisely planed-and-plain sunshine pop that ‘Klingklangs’ does not date these balmy techtopians as incuriously antiseptic. Rather, their consoles console because of the […]

    Kraftwerk – Computer World

    To delete the milk and honey out of precisely planed-and-plain sunshine pop that ‘Klingklangs’ does not date these balmy techtopians as incuriously antiseptic. Rather, their consoles console because of the […]

    Continue Reading...