(Dave Grohl expands his views on Paris, Texas for vinylwriters.com) Paris, Texas is the perfect album for a cold, gray Sunday morning on which you don’t want to leave the house and have time for yourself. Because the music is understated, you don’t have to focus on the album, you simply feel it- it can …
Eater was always one of my favorite bands. They were one of these British punk bands- actually Anglo-Egyptian- that created a lot of noise after inventing punkrock practically overnight. Eater are from North London and released their only studio album in that crucial year of punk. It’s called The Album (1977), and has been released …
I have about a hundred thousand favorite records. But because you’re based in Germany, I’ll pick a German band this time. The album was released on the legendary Ohr label, like so many albums of those pioneers that are gathered under the term “Krautrock”. In their prime, Guru Guru were the wildest of all these …
I’ve heard that Kim Gordon chose one of my records for this special. I’ll gladly return the favor, not just out of politeness, but with complete conviction. Sonic Youth‘s EVOL striked us Noise-Rock kids like no other record. I was 20 years old back then and studied at the University of Virginia. That was a …
ZZ Top have been compared to all sorts of unexpected bands, but I know the one I’d most like to be compared with: Depeche Mode. I’m really fanatical about those cats. I had the pleasure of making their acquaintance in ’85 and we’ve stayed pals ever since. I worked with them on Delta Machine (2013), …
The second Suicide album is produced by Ric Ocasek from The Cars. He was a big fan. I think he made them a little more layered. There’s this amazing use of professional synthesizers, but it still retains a lot of weirdness and toughness. It’s not the record that everyone thinks of when you think of …
This was Gainsbourg’s last studio album before he died. Gainsbourg always adapted to the times; here he went deeper into dance and tight ‘80s funk type grooves with his songs. On top of this, he had refined his songwriting to its most articulate – the lyrics were surreal and very tongue in cheek, more so …
I discovered Noveller alias Sarah Lipstate when I was looking up something else for my radio show. Because I was already at it, I ended up searching for other exciting newcomers and was specifically looking into the field of electronic music. At one point, a little square with her picture and name turned up, and …
There are a few candidates for this question, but one of my absolutely favorite records is Remain In Light by the Talking Heads. It is an album I didn’t understand when I listened to it for the first time in the beginning of the 80s. Back then, I was living in a rural small-town that …
There is a rule of thumb for music that I like: the simpler it is, the better I like it. John Lee Hooker is the measure of all things in this regard. I admire him for everything he has achieved within blues- a pioneer and visionary of the kind who is born maybe once every …
