FAVES / UNFAVES

(Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles” Rangers - “Deerfield Village” Die Antwoord, "Jou Ma Se Poes In 'n Fishpaste Jar" Far East Family, "Like A…

Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which publication I cannot remember, 1.

And I am an ethereal boy...

original Q - who's the Best Artist Since 2000....

My Favorite Books Q/A done for Interview magazine Germany 2012 - What books are on your nightstand right now?

Favourite Albums of 2010, submitted to some publication or other. 1.

Fifty fave tunes done for an Italian magazine, can’t remember when - just what struck me that day… The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer Night's Scene" We The People -- "You Burn Me Up

What is the first record you bought in your youth with your own money ?

(done in 2010) Your first cultural memory?

I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, iD asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs / nights-out-dancing.

(for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer Night's Scene" We The People -- "You Burn Me Up and Down" The Byrds -- "Everybody's Been Burned" Pink Floyd --…

Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd start with that) but four of my favorite riffs, commented on for The Wire's Greatest Riffs feature of 2004 KING SUNNY ADE -- “Eje Nlo Gba Ara Mi”, “365 Is My Number/The Message” (from

votes for the pitchfork ambient list (with my blurbs for charting albums below) 1/ brian eno - on land 2/ brian eno & harold budd - plateaux of mirrors 3/ aphex twin - selected ambient works vol 2 4/ seefeel - polyfusia 5/ laraaji - day of radiance 6/ Ste…

Last year, for a change, I did "Atemporal Faves".

This one is from earlier in the year - January 15 The Xavier doesn't ring any bell at all.

May 1983 to be precise - a snapshot of my listening as a 19-year old, via an old letter that came into my possession again recently Formative me... on the cusp of leaving behind the teenage years... discoveries and delights mostly indexed to critics I fol…

from Sounds magazine, February 5, 1977 - the end bit of an interview with Vivien Goldman.

[written for somebody as part of an interview, like a bonus side-bar thing , can't remember who, can't remember when - the concept was "three music books you love that aren't that well known or are a bit forgotten" Starlust (1985) by Fred and Judy Vermorel

I have no memory which foreign (I assume?)

Someone, somewhen, asked me what my desert island discs would be.

A moment in time... juxtaposed with Melody Maker's American albums chart for that week, me and Stubbsy's current obsessive listens that midsummer o' '89.

An aeon ago, I was asked to do a thing on BBC Radio 6 and the preparatory stage involved filling in a questionnaire on "Good Day Bad Day" music First Single You Bought: What was it, where, why?

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text is probably my favoritest.

11 of my fave s.f. novels (originally wrote this for purposes irrelevant to go into at this juncture) Keith Roberts, Pavane Alternative history/counterfactual set in England where the Reformation never happened, Roman Catholicism dominates the country, and

(one side of a chat with Carl Neville aka the Impostume, done in the mid-2000s) FAVES Ian Dury Jim Morrison (but perhaps only his delivery could get away with some of that stuff) Robert Wyatt (king of bathos) Kevin Ayers (recently got into into him in a b…