How fondly do we remember the moments when a certain piece of music was the perfect soundtrack for a special event, or period in life. Listening to that song is often enough to make you taste a beautiful kiss, smell the scent of a velvet night that felt eternal, hear the nocturnal echoes of laughter …
The opening paragraph of Pitchfork’s review of Iggy Pop‘s latest album Free (2019) points to the sad mental problems and painfully insufficient intellectual capacities of our time’s people. We are still waiting in vain for the last hopeful twists of the West on its way to decline, while brains and imagination have already collectively been …
by Saliha Enzenauer How many of us had to hide our Black Sabbath records from the parents: they looked satanic with witches on them covers, sounded satanic echoing lyrics sprinkled with variations of Lucifer’s name, and the bandname promised nothing good but a Carrie-style carnage while you were trying to peacefully enjoy your Sabbath meal …
Today we focus on a mainly female issue related to an expression I have recently heard for the first time: the ‘sexy vinyl celebrity / personality’. This issue is not discussed because it has become kinda politically incorrect to criticize women and mothers nowadays, since somehow they collectively have become these Virgin Mary-figures again no …
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s secret police (Stasi) monitored the country’s population. The socialist regime secured its power by creating a culture of fear, paranoia, and denunciation within the society, and an arbitrary state executive to go after potential anti-authoritarian individuals and forces. The Lives Of Others (2006) is a remarkable …
Can you hear me wanking on my stereo? On this third Vinyl Wankers installment, we’ll have a look at the species of audiophile snobs. These are people who spend a ridiculous amount on high-end audio equipment and original pressings because they cannot enjoy music otherwise, people who likely clean their records with the four-times-distilled sperm …
After the Brexit in 2019 the Great British Empire’s citizens had voted for me as their new leader. As first official act I had sent Teresa May and the rest of the parliament into Gulag and replaced them with my relatives and friends. On Christmas Eve’s Teresa was allowed to go out and serve us …
It’s a mishmash of rubbish Keith Richards If Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the perfect soundtrack of the 60’s as Beatles fans and demented rock critiques all around the world would make us want to believe, then this decade must have been really horrible. It is the most horrible, worst, and most overrated …
It was night and I was listening to Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and dreaming of Vienna. It was my biggest dream to live there one day, an impossible dream… The men with bloomers and sabers arrived at midnight and dragged me out of my parents’ frugal house. I was a poor peasant girl …
You wouldn’t think that record stores can be potentially dangerous places- except on Record Store Day, where people tend to beat each other up for the latest hyped limited colored vinyl or picture disc edition. But that is another Vinyl Wankers episode from the future. No, besides the RSD, record stores can be places where …
