It was one of my most precious Betamax tapes as a little kid. I only saw it again some 18 years later and it had that exact charming but alien quality of visiting a place you remember as idyllic during childhood.

I think that whatever fashions are popular during your sexual awakening are forever doomed to signify sexiness.

I think that whatever fashions are popular during your sexual awakening are forever doomed to signify sexiness.

Bring back bush, fashion.

Bring back bush, fashion.

No, this is bullshit music. It's less offensively awful than, say,Ke$ha, but that's faint praise.

No, this is bullshit music. It's less offensively awful than, say,Ke$ha, but that's faint praise.

He calls himself "Forrest Gump" at the end. I think he's all right.

He calls himself "Forrest Gump" at the end. I think he's all right.

German prog was better than Anglo-American prog.

German prog was better than Anglo-American prog.

Headphones are speakers. But a little USB DAC/amp and some decent phones and use decent bitrate or preferably lossless rips.

Headphones are speakers. But a little USB DAC/amp and some decent phones and use decent bitrate or preferably lossless rips.

Slowdive was more straightforwardly elegant and beautiful than My Bloody Valentine, but My Bloody Valentine was more… cosmic? apocalyptic? It's so hard to describe. Just a vast, unapologetically monstrous wall of sound.

Slowdive was more straightforwardly elegant and beautiful than My Bloody Valentine, but My Bloody Valentine was more… cosmic? apocalyptic? It's so hard to describe. Just a vast, unapologetically monstrous wall of sound.

This is the problem with modern recordings. They're mastered for the rubbishing little systems that are the mainstream now. I fail to believe that an album recorded digitally in the 90s, a benchmark in audio, can need remastering.

This is the problem with modern recordings. They're mastered for the rubbishing little systems that are the mainstream now. I fail to believe that an album recorded digitally in the 90s, a benchmark in audio, can need remastering.

In what universe did Loveless ever sound "thin"?

In what universe did Loveless ever sound "thin"?

I went to a concert with a girlfriend in Melbourne, not knowing much beyond that "Map of Tasmania" song which I thought was funny because I like hairy pussies.