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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 17, 2021 9:09:31 GMT
Thanks Stu - looks good... On the 30th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind, leading figures from music, literature, fashion, art, and activism reflect on the impact it had on their lives.
Presenter Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, explores how his own work is entwined with the album’s history. In the early 90s, Douglas Coupland, like Nirvana, was at the vanguard of a new movement that valued individualism and freedom.
In 1991, the music industry had modest ambitions for a second album from Seattle three-piece rock group Nirvana. Little did they know. Opening with hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nevermind was a politically radical, powerful package of pop and punk music that made the “grunge” genre world-famous. The album knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the US charts, eventually selling 30 million copies. It made Kurt Cobain an icon. Though released on a major label, the record redefined the notion of independent spirit for a generation.
Musician Bat For Lashes talks about processing troubling teenage experiences through her Nirvana fandom. Actor Zawe Ashton reveals that Kurt Cobain directly inspired her character of Vod in sitcom Fresh Meat. Transgender activist Daniella Carter reflects on the ways the band defined her politics. Novelist Aaron Hamburger remembers how Kurt Cobain helped him come out as gay. Nevermind producer Butch Vig recalls the release changing his life overnight. Other contributors include poet Hanif Abdurraqib, author Deborah Levy, and musician and fashion expert Brix Smith.
Finally, folk band The Unthanks perform an exclusive Nirvana cover, and rare archive interviews with the band transport us back to the spirit of the time. |
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Post by stu77 on Sept 23, 2021 15:30:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 18:36:53 GMT
My Tom Robinson mailing circular alerted me to this. Bizzare. |
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Post by stu77 on Oct 26, 2021 6:46:58 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Oct 31, 2021 22:35:28 GMT
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Nov 1, 2021 8:48:54 GMT
Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 1, 2021 8:48:54 GMT
Peter Schmeichel took The Girl is Mine to the Desert Island  |
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Post by stu77 on Nov 21, 2021 20:20:18 GMT
Freddie Mercury www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011rlhFreddie Mercury was a global superstar. Bohemian Rhapsody was the most streamed song of the 20th century, Queen's Greatest Hits is the best-selling album of all time in the UK. One billion viewers watched the Tribute Concert held after his death. But hardly anyone seems to know Mercury's real name. Farrokh Bulsara was born 75 years ago in Zanzibar and died 30 years ago this week. He spent his teenage years drinking chai in Mumbai, fled a brutal revolution on British-protected soil, and settled into London's Parsi Zoroastrian community. He never spoke about these things – and the press never enquired. So what would we ask if he were a star today? Sathnam Sanghera talks to Farouk Topan, a contemporary from Zanzibar, to find out what life would have been like there. Friend and biographer Lesley-Ann Jones tracks the transition from Farrokh to Freddie, and reveals his favourite food was always lamb dhansak. Sathnam unearths old BBC interviews, including Queen back stage at Live Aid and Elton John paying tribute to his close friend. He speaks to super-fan Matt Lucas on how we misread Freddie’s sexuality, and asks Bob Harris about racist music crowds. Sathnam asks why Queen played in apartheid-era South Africa, and finds out why the Great British public never realised Mercury was gay. And he discovers Arabic and Persian lyrics in some of Queen’s most famous songs. |
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Post by stu77 on Dec 16, 2021 22:43:37 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012fm1Are some thoughts too evil to think? Sometimes we avoid seemingly rational lines of reasoning, not because of logic, innumeracy or ignorance, but for morality. In his guide to thinking better, Professor Steven Pinker explores the trade-offs between taboos and our ability to reason clearly. Steven’s joined by Philip Tetlock, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, author of ‘Super Forecasting’ and the psychologist who originated the modern study of taboo. And by Sally Satel, a psychiatrist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When she needed a kidney transplant, and then another, should she have been able to simply buy one online?
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Post by stu77 on Dec 22, 2021 4:35:42 GMT
This is a few years old but a quality listen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qvr63Black Aquarius Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius - the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s. From journals like the Aquarian Arrow to the diabolical novels of Dennis Wheatley, lurid accounts of satanic cults in the Sunday papers and the glut of illustrated books, part-magazines, documentary film and TV drama, it was a wildly exuberant seam of British pop culture. Flowering from the more arcane parts of the hippy movement but mutating into something quite different, why was there such a huge crossover appeal for the British public? Was this a continuation of the Sixties cultural battleground of restrictive morality being secretly titillated, or was it something else - something darker? These questions certainly puzzled factual television at the time. The age of Black Aquarius matched the late Victorian craze for the occult in its intensity and popularity, and certainly drew from some of that era's obsessions - dark dimensions, secret rites, unearthly energy - but filtered through 'the permissive society', through a hugely eclectic counterculture, swinging sexual liberation and new kinds of consumption and lifestyle. And while dark forces were summoned in the grooviest of Chelsea flats they were being unearthed in the countryside too, a fantasy of pagan ritual and wicker men, of tight-lipped locals and blood sacrifice at harvest time. Contributors include Mark Gatiss, Katy Manning, Caroline Munro, Kim Newman, Highgate Vampire hunter David Farrant and Piers Haggard, director of 'The Blood on Satan's Claw'. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 22, 2021 7:32:04 GMT
Looks great Stu
V interesting
I'm off to BBC Sounds to download
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Post by stu77 on Dec 31, 2021 20:29:40 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Jan 19, 2022 10:59:04 GMT
Saturday on BBC World Service www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7yMusic that survived the Nazis: Part one The Documentary There is a common misconception that music under the Nazis was either ‘Degenerate Music’ to be suppressed or propaganda music that was officially sanctioned. Historian Shirli Gilbert shows that there was a wealth of different music-making during this period, including secret sessions by Jewish musicians and others, that managed to evade official scrutiny. In this first episode, she explores the music of the Jewish Culture League, as well as the work of Lukraphon and Semer, two Jewish record labels active at this time. This includes a huge range of works recorded in Nazi Germany, from orchestral pieces to cabaret songs to religious singing of enormous beauty. Contributors include Alan Bern, Ben Fisher, Martin Goldsmith, Lily Hirsch, Rainer E. Lotz and Sasha Lurje. Ze’ev Lewin archive audio courtesy of the Jewish Museum Berlin. |
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Post by stu77 on Jan 25, 2022 5:11:14 GMT
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Post by jsm on Jan 27, 2022 1:24:11 GMT
Philip's '66 Garage Radio
Online streaming radio station that plays non-stop 60s garage music with some pop and soul thrown into the mix.
I just started listening this morning. Very good so far.
Is there a punk/new wave equivalent?
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Jan 27, 2022 10:36:23 GMT
Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 27, 2022 10:36:23 GMT
Is there a punk/new wave equivalent?
Not that I know of - but if anyone can put us right it will be someone here |
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