Saturday, July 03, 2004
New Book Alert (from Daily Yomiuri Online)
Words and Music
By Paul Morley
Bloomsbury, 7.99 pounds
For a whole generation of readers of the quasi-intellectual British music magazine New Musical Express (NME) in the late 1970s and early '80s, Paul Morley was either an icon of cool or a total "pseud" (pretentious fool) with his highbrow mixing of European philosophy and literature with the cheesiest of pop sensibilities. He obviously always fancied himself a serious author, and here he gets a chance to pontificate over 360 pages (many of them filled with lists), which mostly consist of him fantasizing over Kylie Minogue and dropping an infinite amount of names of records, only a very few of which you will have heard of, let alone heard. Time has not been too unkind to Paul Morley, whom most people would happily have strangled in his heyday. Nostalgia apart, he now seems a kind of institution, who defined the boundaries of music journalism, and who communicates infinite passion for consuming records
¶ 7/03/2004 05:28:00 PM
Words and Music
By Paul Morley
Bloomsbury, 7.99 pounds
For a whole generation of readers of the quasi-intellectual British music magazine New Musical Express (NME) in the late 1970s and early '80s, Paul Morley was either an icon of cool or a total "pseud" (pretentious fool) with his highbrow mixing of European philosophy and literature with the cheesiest of pop sensibilities. He obviously always fancied himself a serious author, and here he gets a chance to pontificate over 360 pages (many of them filled with lists), which mostly consist of him fantasizing over Kylie Minogue and dropping an infinite amount of names of records, only a very few of which you will have heard of, let alone heard. Time has not been too unkind to Paul Morley, whom most people would happily have strangled in his heyday. Nostalgia apart, he now seems a kind of institution, who defined the boundaries of music journalism, and who communicates infinite passion for consuming records
¶ 7/03/2004 05:28:00 PM
