is pretty fucking great, why did i not know this already? its really really obviously a huge influence on morrissey as a dude (as pertains the literary bent and the detached aloofness and elevation from the work that you see in a certain type of songwriter that i tend to enjoy, same vein as like the first belle and sebastian album or i guess jens lekman a little? i also just listened to those two things in the last month or two) and totally in line with like the entire 80s, like they [ultravox] invented a lot of them[the 80s] i think .
literally cant even try and trace all the influence coming off this thing, ahead and behind, the prospect itself is a lil exhausting. major kraftwerk shit, but with all guitars and such
also western promise makes me think a lot of rush in a funny way. not gonna listen to more rush to see if thats a legit reference, though
got nothin else to say about it, its just a good album and im gonna continue to listen to it
heres a picture of it: the cover is also a decadal universal without even thinking about it, like i think maybe right as the 80s started people kind of just knew what to do with them and it got muddled by things actually happening, cause they had just had the 70s for 10 years and it was so bullshit and postmodern and acidic(in the sense of corrosive) there was a millenial-almost fresh starting impulse
further reading/consumption/you may also enjoy because it is also good and similar as an idea of constituting a backbone for postpunk-almost synth-type 80s content : the minimal wave tapes
also i listened to the first two harry nilsson albums today and they both ruled, i thought 'you cant do that', in which he spouts a ton of beatles lines all together, was funny as hell. gonna look into some more nilsson, bro has won me over wholly.
on a serious musical roll; listened to some of/ing to now scritti politti's cupid and psyche 85 and it reminded/s me a lot of like michael jackson and prince, was/is good/very compelling as what it is, but almost offputting in how sort of masterminded it seemed, like a little bit of the same deal as how perfect cocaine pop music fleetwood mac rumours is(though in scritti politti's case in light of the marxist foundations i tend to assume the craft of it is at least a little knowing--sort of a devo done straightfaced thing, a 'here is your musicproduct, it is the song you would like to spend money on so as to continue to circulate value around and function our mutual social structures i am emphasizing my shoulders because it indicates that i exist physically and take up an amount of lateral space' like the cover of xtc's go 2) [this is one of my favorite album covers. it is also what i meant about how cool xtc was in its earlier form, before it got all 'getting hugs from my brain all the time']
--i make the rumours coke70spop reference because i saw the vh1 thing about that album and the bro who stevie nicks was married to or whatever--lindsey graham?--was really obviously on some total "fuuuuck this is exactly the way these instruments sound and are sounding and they fit together to make this song in this particualr way and shit goddamn this is the song i just made it done"
[post-scriptually-created intro-note: p apparent, but i wrote this stream-of-content as i listened to the album]
ive tried a bunch of time to listent o and like this album, and I think that now ive listened to the other 80s things—psych furs and suchlike---I can
Partridge is funny cause he lsot his shitsnd started just writing like ‘be happy fuck yeah ungh be ok ‘ because he was a brittle aging out of youth bro instead of a ‘society is FUCKED ,man, angry young man like graham parker/joe Jackson.
I like the multiplied, wheeeew weeeew wwwweeeewww guitar in garden of earthly delights, the lyrics are silly in a go2 type of way. Conscious post beatles
Mayor of simpleton a take on ‘don’t know much about hsitory’. tv show song like robyn hitchcock's 'man who invented himself' but not as good a show-- i totally love that song/artist, by the way. Gay candy colored late 80s doctor who, like how sylvestre mccoy looks externally w/ the question mark motif. Good doubling of vocal, takes one of the best early elvis features and applies xtc to it. Very bouncy, cruisey
[mrrrrrr, as oswald cobblepot, im completely externally invalid, here's some knockout gas from my fuckin umbrella or some shit, i dunno]
I like the cover a lot, but I always have
Here comes president kill again is a good thing just because of the title. It eats kind o like a less good ‘dear god’, which I get, but Reagan was so easy that its shitty to shamble so Robert smith-y [I assume, only having seen the cure at coachellz 2k9 and not listened to them] horns are a good ' mancini 60s ' bit, as is low voice(good bit, that is)—makes me think of the name harry nillson, even though im not imlyng a connection.
Poor skeleton steps out is good, doing a bit of a nearly Africa sequel with the graceand bwoom, bwoom, and the ribcage xylophone. I see how this hsit soundedteletubby to me in other contexts though. If you weren’t following the 80s as a cultural thing, and rather just xtc alone, this could be a disappointment in light of the more directly abrasive and subversive emotionality of the earler work—the softening of the bearded 30s-dad type we now see as that one bald comedian in the Toyota minivan commercials
Andy partridge is kind of insufferable, but when he was cool you didn’t mind as much.
Merely a man doesn’t even have the potency of dear god’s earnest structure-and-nostalgia-refuting primacy [via childvoice]. Good jimmy swaggert namedrop though
‘help me get through my cynical days/these cynical days’ shut up man that’s dumb ‘its justa passing phase’ ‘years go by’ its like the damn late enlightenment, all ‘eugh the countryside ruled, peasants, shit yeah’ but that is even cool because its part of a grnd tradition that in that context turned into pastoral romanticism, which rules on both countries’ fronts—us and Britain
across ths antheap is pretty good. I like the guitar behind the vocal and the ssynths. I also like the way he growls ‘orgasms fade’ because that’s what he shouldve gotten out of the 80s, I really think andy partridge shouldve gone more directly sexual in response to that decade than he did, but I guess breakdowns are pretty unsexy, so he got at what was happening via emotion rather than moralizing, based as it is in the self rather than, y’know, not.
It is one of the better songs on the album, fosh
Whoop; ‘hold me my daddy’ damn it partridge your perspective is not cool, I really wish you hadn’t freaked out so goddamn hard. ’It hurts to see grown men fighting this way’, like I get that antiwar is a thing, generals and majors and all, but that was based in the subjects, like jello biafra’s songwriting a little, whereas this is all navelgazy in a tiresome way. That’s even a cool African guitar thing with the vocals there after the fake ending, legit pre-vampweekend/postgraceland exploitation, but it doesn’t save the lyrical issues
Pink thing is good. Its really funny as a dick joke/infant conflation, that’s a good use of yr talents, andy, and also it has all the good guitar work and jaunty handclaps andfalsettos you could want. Another false ending/shift for a fadeout
Miniature sun isn’t that interesting right after pink thing, bit of a steely dan supertramp thing. ‘vain little boy I was’ nah man, youre just creating a narrative of personal growth via crisis when your coolest shit was what you lost in the breakup
Chalkhills and children is a good song too, doing a very convincing brian Wilson, esp on the fadeout
IN CONCLUSION NOW THAT THE ALBUMS OVER:
Decent, not the best work, Stephen Thomas erlewine at allmusic doesn’t get patridge in the same way I do, the best parts of skylarking were the unexpected and emotionally off, twitchy elements, like he says‘grass’ is purely a positive song, and ‘big day’ is a celebration of marriage, which is completely inexplicable to me. Actually allmusic has always bugged me re: xtc, because the other bro who reviewed the earler albums panned go2 and gave white music 3 stars and a 1 paragraph dismissal, which is shitty to do. Like drums and wires is good, yeah, but like white music at least is fantastic in the same way ultravox!’s ha! ha! ha! is. Course I never liked post-foxx ultravox anyway, gonna have to give at least Vienna another shot bc I like the title track at least—‘it means nothing to me’ with that piano thing is really great. Also gonna have to deal w/scritti politti on its own terms(ie outside the 'early material' political-ass thing i got) via cupid and psyche certainly and white bread black beer maybe—that one just bc I like ‘dr abernathy’ a lot, though ‘boom boom bap’ and the ‘middle-aged guy in his kitchen’ of it make me wary of it.
Oranges and lemons iss gonna get added to my ipod, it has finally won me over as much as it can, I think.
today i am twenty years old; i indulge the youngman's prerogative to discuss himself. what but that is a personal blog from such a one for ?
the title of this post is the title and first line of a poem i do not write, a poem i thought about and pondered and half-drafted in my head over the course of the week before my teen years ended. i hadnt committed it to text of any sort until just now when i titled this post. i am no poet at least none that writes poetry nor bears pretense to that descriptor so none, then
no poet in deed
i spent my birthday with my mother, i went to a zoo and ate mexican food. such constitutes the factual of my experience; i had a very pleasant day, i was refreshed. the canniness--the 'home-like' character of such a day is reassuring and grounding, particularly given how much of the actual event of entering my twenties was dedicated to trying to get at what it felt like and meant to do so.
there's a significant degree to which teenhood had to end in ambiguity and confusion; in this sentiment i explicitly refuse to try and address a universal, i limit my purview to my own experience.
i had an identity, of a kind: an identity of disengagement and limitation. the reasons for that identity, its component parts, no longer Are. i have not yet reconstructed an identity which suits complete humanity nor personhood--i simply do not quite know how yet. this is a truth about me; i publish this truth on the internet because authorship is a joke in all the ways that word can be read: it is a parlor trick (to address notions of perceived universal application or import and convey elements of one's internal through distanciated content production? absurd ) and a
i refuse to continue that discussion how's that for authorship ?
this too addresses an element of becoming 20, this flightiness. this too is an Individual which i put forth as an element of the greater concept in question here: this is a time during which there are few certainties other than one's self [one's-self] , and to be and feel detached from one's identity is difficult. all the elements of who one may be are present, you are the person you will be, but not exactly. you have become someone, but it is not clear who yet, nor when[ce] that person arrives to or from or et cetera and on and on
what i think i am saying is here is a picture of bob dylan at 20 years old: this is a figure who prefigured and iterated the narrative of the boomers as humans living lives, a figure i explicitly attend and lionize as a cultural produc[{t(ion)}(er)] and model of a human Existing he was 20 when he began his explicit musical career
[if i may interject, it is this moment the aniversarial moment of my birth]
it is literally Important not to try and extend one's self perception across others in one's temporal peer group; rihanna i believe was 19 and chris brown 20 at the time of the Hitting occurrence; miley cyrus is 17; alexander pope was 19 when he wrote his Essay on Criticism [he had basically just read a shitload of greek bros' shit, that was his qualification to be A Poet]
i cannot create a Meaningful Moment to Encapsulate what this 'turning twenty' Represents or how i Feel about it
this is itself meaningful, but not very just like turning 20 after being 19 for a year and a teen for seven-ish
I purchased the following tshirt at a rummage sale in isla vista, california--the rich kid ghetto associated with univ. cal. santa. barb'ra., and it set a notion in motion in me [RHYMING]:
[the front design, which takes up most of the front of the shirt]
[the back of the shirt, note in particular the phrase 'just blaze', as that is the source of my title]
now, this is literally a piece of folk art, just as much as any artifact of a tribal society(all societies are tribal, no disrespec to kalaharibros) or lightup fleamarket last suppers--it is a piece of the ephemera of these particular humans in this particular place and time.
WHAT THIS SHIRT REFLECTS: marijuana culture is frequently masculinized-->"yr a bitch, bro, if you are incapable of taking in all of the large 'hit' of drug-smoke from this two foot long glass cylinder in one inhalation", the inescapable phallic nature of most/many 'pieces' of paraphenalia, this shirt, rappers discussing the magnitude, quality, and quantity of their manifold blunts, etc.
WHY THIS IS SO: a reasonable frame for 'traditional' gendering is through hunting/gathering[i needed the scarequotes because 'tradition' in my context is derived from the 19th-century iteration of reality--via AMERICA, is why]--womenz multitask so for as to maintain the social contract and order/'raise children', men prosecutorially unitask so for as to 'murder animals to sustain the humans who comprise that order'
incidentally this is why there was-and is--the Patriarchy[via women's studies]. this is the reason driven, career-minded women face subconscious accusations [from others and possibly sometimes themselves? i am not a woman] of gender transgression/ 'un/de-gendering'
(for an example of this see lady macbeth, who literally explicitly verbally degenders herself so as to be inhuman enough to give her man his prophecied crown)
BACK TO MY ARGUMENT: marijuana makes one wholly internal, that is why rappers ingest it, it allows for the full expression of the participatory subjective internal[lil wayne claims to smoke two blunts over the course of his DOA freestyle--"fiji water, granddaddy purp/og kush"]. this state naturally encourages tenacious unitasking whatever the task may be--though frequently that task is simply enjoying the presentation of some content, i do well admit.
if you cannot see the relationship between weedy unitasking and masculine unitasking and therefore the validity of my argument i literally cannot help you understand it better [via subjectivities]
[some bros chillin in 2k8 zany electro versions of coldplay/2k10 military victorian marchingband jackets/ postironic mustaches]
i have suggested that animal collective is the version of the beatles the internet created, i reassert it now.
the beatles were incidentally, by means of their ability, the universal human narrative for the duration of their career. i dont know if yr familiar with the word 'rockist' but it broadly refers to a frame that privileges guitar music over all others. it was so derided by the internet that it now exists only in cultural memory. the beatles are the jesus 'von' christ of the 20th century cultural hegemony, ['rockism'] in that their story was everyone's story ['everyone' refers to straight white males, the group i self-identify into].bob dylan is 'god the father' because he granted the human pop act the beatles marijuana and its promethean spark [PUN] turned them into what they were.
[the larval state of an anco. they are the four bros from bucket hat to round glasses, standing. i think 'steel city' is panda 'noah' bro]
animal collective is the internet inventing the beatles, but where the beatles began as a sober pop act and transitioned into Meaning, anco began with Meaning and has powered on through until culture was Futuristic enough to accept them. the internet means only the people who want music to Mean things have to hear them, which is why pitchfork led the charge.
i jokingly conflated pitchfork media with rolling stone in another blogpost, this too i reassert in earnest. they are a gen x iteration of baby boomers, so of course when they found a beatles they cobranded with it. they have never 'gotten things', but they are idiot savants of musical direction. they are doomed to forever know the 'what' without the 'why', that is why their numerical scores are usually apt while their reviews are poorly written
soo, ive been to literally elyria; it was p cool bc it was so earnestauthentic/'legit AMERICA' i 'totally get' why obarry went there for superpopulism[fkn <3 populism bc emotionalappeal/'american collectivism (!!(?))']
[look @ this "suave, ass, Mother, Fucker."jesus goddamn christ, fuck]
"I'm not going to watch more people get crushed by costs or denied care they need by insurance-company bureaucrats," the PRESIDENT said. "I'm not going to have the insurance companies click their heels and watch their stocks skyrocket, because once again there's no control on what they do." [see i allcapped 'president' bc that's what it means when obama does this: he's being 'the PRESIDENT']
o what is the response from the ostensible competitor ?
"When he last visited Elyria, candidate Obama promised that as president he would enact a 'job creation agenda.' Yet for the past year, Ohioans have watched anxiously as Washington Democrats, with the approval of President Obama, have pushed a job-killing agenda," Mr. Boehner said.
[motherfucker, i cannot care about a word you ever say bc you are literally irrevocably invalid{like fucking pelosi-level(albeit her issue is the external/boring-shittiness[via congressionalDemocrats, eurgh)} literally because your fucking name isMister John Boner jesus man what the helll] [via , 'large_john boehner1' aaaaa--also man why you so eyeliner'd what is your deal mister Boner ??]
[applicablememe/PENISES/im the bro w the cig+mustache on the right, thats me]
i mean i didnt read the obit/dont really have any vested interest in her, but she was olivier's ophelia and i just posted a couplea pictchas of ha, soo
'If you are under 13 years of age you may read this message board, but you may not participate.'
[via hammy-2k{via authorship and artifice as pleasant, comforting subjects for authoring and art-crafting}(ps fuck that adaptation, i just couldnt pass up Bill)]
actually kate winslet is a better example because she's actually a good enough actress to convey the central thrust of ophelia--the chivalric ideal of the knight[protagonist]'s Lady, she who can give his life Meaning, destroyed by the Author[hamlet the student/knight-turned-revenger is shakespeare the artificer, his hand forced by the public's demand for a revenge story{for the Author so loved his protagonist...}]
[jean simmons via ; a bwidge of sorts/the setup for a callback]
["Cutest fisherman ever?" the second half of the bridge: 'goulden age' celebrities as strongly personal-branded 'agents of culture'/CHECK-THEM-GAMS]
So here is the initial condition: the payoff, the legacy, the Future[i want the Era beginning 2010 to be called the Future(contrasted w/Modern Era)] of America's century[the 20th] is thus: corporate personhood goes both directions [this is LITERALLY proven by the simultaneous development of 'greenwashing/organicsustatinable bull shit' {via the corporate Person wanting to be bros with the savvyconsumer} and 'personal branding' {via face/look/twit-book, "self-actualization by universal acceptance/reinforcement (via internet)"}
THREE VITAL TERMS[that i want to present cogent written definitions for, as they describe the processes of the Future human]
self-actualization: the exercise of one's agency upon onesself, the solving/fixing/shoring-up of one's internality, a general "being-ok with one'self as one is"; necessary to step far enough outside consumer-existence to compete with high-powered brand management staff[corporate Persons] on their own terms as agents of culture--something of a baseline requirement if you really want to try to live Here and Now(but that's ok bc the internet can do this one for you{heidi 'soviet'montage does it w/surgery but thats ok bc FUTURE} )
functionality: the exercise of one's agency upon one's immediate surroundings/situation, "i know who i am/what my brand is. what do i want, what do i want to be doing?"<--the degree to which one can achieve what one wants in the external world
aptitude: one's propensity/inclination towards one's activities/'job', derived from the testing impulse[via Standard Aptitude Test, "what colouer is yr parachute ? "/"learning styles"], requires enough self-understanding to apply one's particular abilities/'skill-set' with maximum efficiency/return on investment[of time,effort, whateva]
A COUPLE EXAMPLES/ELABORATIONS:
"Could I be happy with something else I need something to fill my time"--gang of four, forevr[via internet as year zero/'clockstoppers Nickelodeon Original Film starring the internet as clockstopper'] ^an expression of the drive/desire to determine one's aptest activities through one's functional means
"Her clothes spread wide,/ And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up,/ Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,/ As one incapable of her own distress,/ Or like a creature native and indued/ Unto that element."--gertrude, on ophelia, 16xx ^absolute, perfect aptitude as the Lady wholly destroyed by the plot such that the rediscovery of that perfect aptitude comes only in the moment--and by the means--of self-destruction ['the Punk impulse' {via 'please kill me' as a booktitle about punk/self-identification with the dominant social order subverted}]
shakespeare lil wayne glenn beck bob dylan fela kuti elizabeth cady stanton jayne mansfield charles dickens twain alfred hitchcock joseph smith elvis costello muhammad ayn rand barry o'bama
found it bc i wanted to hear both version of tex ritter;s 'high noon' witch do u preferme i like the movieversion better for hitting a 'resonsant emotionsal tone' but the single version 'as a song/for the sillytexritter performance'
eminem said in an interview around the release of 8miley thathe nxtwanrted to be 'not mainchar','comedic role' TAHAT WAS REAL LYFE FOR HIM ! pillz, htis siht[however i rerally like the elvis parts], 'king mathesr',brunat asscheekgate,apparnt cobrand w tortureporn icp crossover via 'seriual killer persona??' picgure is outa date iknow but it payas off later just you wait enry iggins [iunno]
feelin a lil like malcom'clockorange'mcdowell--via viddy etc do u agree that 'the artist invents their own languagre by necesity?' VIA 'MUTABLE SIGNIFIERS?' frt
very much a 'what willis was talkin bout' situatinio with breach boys 'wasnt ,made for these times' and pandabear 'personpitch entirely, 'takepills' contentwise/'bros' tonally' just lookem up on hypemacjine, utube soundis toobad
was llokin at this pic wihlts listenin to 'bros'
[pictureis called 'the baby sitters' i beleeve^via niftyfifties wihch i wouldwilam endorse i thinkits good]
'just tryin to make some jokes, jus tryin to play some notes' noabro,'good girl/carrots' 2k7(!) {notions of BEING WALT WHITMAN[guthriebragg]}
PS thisis me im tom jones 'WATCH OUT...COOL, BABBY'[via hyperstylization/'yu kids thik yu knw EEVRYTIN grr'/cardigan 'nina, the bolnde, frontwmn' as embracing/'takin back' the cultralcapital of '''''patriarchal framework''''']
PPS 'having a hard time understandin 'why we had to have brit'lilgirl'spear/pink/'s club 7 in prague', i mean it was the 21st, y didnt we jsut skip straight to laddy gaaga[ART] / selena cyrus[TRADE] ? seems 'much more efficient' to just literally 'idol'ize/'sex'ualize tweens directly
[via 'ingroup exercise of ones' will{see also: colonial governments}'/'CULUTRAL IMPERIALISM IN GLOBAL WOARLD'--"byootiful dirty dirty rich dirty beautiful"-steffi '' 'secret wiener' as highest form of flattery''warhol-mercury,2kX--horation alger-blower selfstyled mythmaking("stick of gum in pocket+dream") POSS CONNECT to batman: 'putting ones body into role{via never pants}/serious committment to terms of role'method actin'-->CHRS BALE]
"i am something, a little, i think, [comparable?] to the glenn 'beck' hansen of this, the blog writing shit, and," [welp we literally have a similar aesthetic/deliveries{via intricacy/certitude/eccentricity/'zannines'} soo]
"glennda or glen, which one is up to perception" ed wood, 'jonny dep'[helena burton cartier]
[cred 'wevkIII' for device of arrows to just straight connect ideas via selfevidence of concept]
international narrative: James Caan-[Protagonist]->Obama-->jamescaan sayin 'there are no rules'-->he singlehanded brings down entire World Order by turnin tide of tokyo match/creating pop revolution with his personal brand-->"kids rule school" POINT
"why argue w/decisions youre not pwerful enough to make yourself"-corprate fuck, 1X75, 2018
personal branding: "JONATHON"-->'MJs,' L[eb]B[ron]J[ames], etc-->tiger woods as obama['postracial' CHAMPION(thats why foxnews worked so hard on woodscandal: a way to 'get at' a formerly untouchable proxy for a currently untouchable brand{like 12th century eur fascination w/ aadulterous queens'guinevere of aquitane'COLLEGE{via not mentioning weed being the literal last cultural stopgap for potential LEGLIZ IT chaa the only ploititcal issue i really have any reason to car about})] -->this is what the new INTET CULTURE prizes: 'unserious significant talent/affini-bility/'aptitude' '
'tippy tap im perfekt an byoot, "life-affirmin?" welp i sure hope this inescapable masculineformed cultural image doesnt inform my career whoop FEISTPOD-PIGEONHOLE-TYPECATS-byvisualwayof-Peter'sledgehammer[this song Rules]'Gabriel [via flaming {lowpoint} lips {redemption}]'
hey 'folks' i thingk this might literally b the 'post apocalyse?' i mean i like it fine and all, im juts sayian[via hard rain]
[my prezdnt is black "real big man"-dancehall man papa michigan]
technological prescience: James Can literally 'Erases A Bitch" from his leif
*cracks knucks 4 'SPIRIT BOMB'* motherfucker,here is what i am saying: theres a guy on the tokyo rollerball team who looks exactly like yoko ono, the tokyo team is noted for its 'eccentric, deathblow-centric' style, yoko was a postmodern, ahead-of-ones-thyme Artist from Asia who 'western culture' rejected, feared, and blamed for 'destroying their 'anco' '
the houston team's brashness in the face of alien perfection addresses charismatic overconfidence of 'the american[20th] century'/ with the dawn of 21st 'the azian century(via swallows nest 2k8)'/'the internet century[olny 10%of districts reporting]' this scenario recalls nothing so much as custer's last 'showy,ostentatious mediocrity' stand
james caan gets them out of it,saves future thrugh force of will/'inexplicable inborn aptitude'-->BABAR H [bc hes calmly and self-evidently enlightened is why, 'the fun is watching him govern' jsut like babar the cartoon character king] Obama
SO 'end of american empire'-->'decline of british empire'[their 'w/9/11/TERRORWAR' was 'victoria dies/india,etc']-->symbolically, obama:lincoln[via 'selfmodel']/teddy roosevelt[ill get to it in a minute]::elizabeth'mirren' II:elizabeth'blanchett' I
-->T Roos as hypercharismatic idealized, forward-thinking[moreso in tr's case than bo's{bc of 19th c populism}] v publically popular master of branding/presentation bridging the gap bw two centuries: BARRYO
the internet means that bill clinton is not baracck obama becaus of blowjobs/algore literally invented it with his own two hands i ssaw him
'keep em lookin, kid. ya can say what ya want, just for the love of god keep em lookin at ya'-hollywood, forever
[THE MAIL GAYZE OF THE CAM'RA/ha-cha-cha-cha-cha/a-wooo]
[ah so this is what you mean when you say'self-perception and psychological foundations/GENDRNRMS,' whelllp{via keepin a baby, just dryin it off a lil bit(BATHWATRE)}]
the cover is also a decadal universal without even thinking about it, like i think maybe right as the 80s started people kind of just knew what to do with them and it got muddled by things actually happening, cause they had just had the 70s for 10 years and it was so bullshit and postmodern and acidic(in the sense of corrosive) there was a millenial-almost fresh starting impulse
[this is one of my favorite album covers. it is also what i meant about how cool xtc was in its earlier form, before it got all 'getting hugs from my brain all the time']
