Thurston Moore - My Life in Music (scan from Uncut magazine inside)
 

I just found this as I was wading through my mailbox looking for an old email (that I still haven't found :().
I'm not sure if it was ever posted here, so:






(thanks moshe... edit: scratch that, thanks sonicl)

we should realy thank sonicl who scanned it for me

whoa!
fanx!

Really nice!

The same thing was on the nme a while ago.

yeah, but you're the only one here who buys that.

Haha.Surely you mean i am the only one who wastes too much money on any music magazine i feel like wasting money on?I think that the same article appeared on the very same issue that had a Q&A with Kim as well.Some excerpts from that i've posted a while ago.

thanks to both of you!

Well, maybe sonicl buys it too but tries to cover it up by saying it comes from Uncut magazine instead?

(I honestly wouldn't know, I'm not really familiar with both mags/rags)

Uncut is known as the monthly NME as they are both owned by the same publishing company and that was the intention since its first issue.I re-named it 'NME with guilt' because the quality of the writing is just a little more upmarket than the rubbish NME.Shame Shame Shame on both of us.

owned by the same publishing company? aha, that would explain why they have the same articles... those lazy bastards.

i should still have some other 1-page article somewhere with thurston mentioning the "records that changed my life" or something along those lines. it's from the wire so it should be a bit more upmarket/pretentious than this one. i'll look for it so that we can raise this thread to a whole new different level.

Steady on,there!Some of the journalists who write for The Wire do freelance work for both UNCUT and MOJO.David Keenan(to name one) occasionaly writes for MO'Old Bag Music'JO magazine too.David Stubbs used to wite for the Melody Maker even when it was complete and utter garbage and now he writes for The Wire.One big family,you see?

From Simon Reynolds's blog:
Okay, as we're trawling the music mags, how about a little game? Guess who this musician is, interviewed in Uncut not once but twice, first describing his "Desert Island Disc", and then a few pages later, picking his Album of the Year and sticking out like a sore but very welcome thumb amid the sorry shower of aging Britpoppers who reckon Kasabian, Midlake (The Trials of Van Occupanther!?!?!?!?), and Muse are verily the dogs bollocks.

Desert Island Disc
Tha Dogg Pound--Call Iz Active
This record is different from all Snoop's others, it's got more personalities in there. He doens't sing all the time, there are different characters that pop up. They work in crews, four or five people involved at one time. It's a discussion group, in a funny kind of way. I saw him the other day on TV, and he was talking about his sponsorship of football teams; he had 2000 members already. It's funny because Al Sharpton was complaining about how rappers should contribute more to the community. I like Snoop's style, as a man. He's the one that got away. the one that did something.

Album of the Year
Kokane--Back 2 Tha Clap
One of the originators of G-Unit finally gets his turn. His take on the whole West Coast Gangsta Hop is much more soulful than gangsta, especially the track "When It Rains, It Pours", a heartbreaking song that most uncharacteristically ends with a comment about his mother.

Any idea?

A clue: read it aloud, in a baleful Welsh accent.

That's right.

It's John Cale!

I know he did that album last year or the year before, with Timbaland-influenced beats, but still...

"I like Snoop's style, as a man"... I can just hear him saying that in his grave 'n' gravelly tone.

I heard that Snoop/R. Kelly single "That's That" the other day coming out of a shop doorway, and suddenly thought: blimey, he's been around a loooong time. 14 years. Which means career-wise he's at the Honi Soit point or something. (Or maybe Tha Blue Carpet Treatment = Blue Mask). "That's That" has up to now irritated me immensely with its lackadaisically jaunty melody, but suddenly, seeing the video yesterday, I decided it was genius. It's got a real "getting away with it" vibe about, spelled out in the video when Snoop drops his usual blase impressed-by-nothing frown and is sorta shuffling about in this lazy-dance way with a stoned shit-eating grin exactly midway between smug and sheepish. Like, "how easy is this?".

i'd never have guessed that to be john cale.

thanks for the enlightment on the music magazines too. anyway, i'l still look if i can find that page.

Another unsung hero of music journalism is the comedian Stewart Lee (of 'Jerry Springer-The Opera' fame)who writes for The Sunday Times Culture section as well as being one of the patrons of Resonancefm.

edit-Ops!He also contributed to The Wire with an article about Derek Bailey on the 'laughter' issue.

i have the magazine, i was gonna post this but i cant be bothered to write it out since i dont have a scanner

I got Blue Train after reading this. I enjoy it, good thinking music.
I really want that Sparks album

Thanks very much for that :)
Happy Christmas !

im really suprised by the yes songs, i always thought the outro to 'karen revisited' sounds like part of 'close to the edge'