Mixtapes #9: Simon Reynolds
The best of lists that pop up at the end of the year are often hobbled by chronology or genre. It suggests that listening begins in January and ends in December or that people are experts in only one kind of music. People never really only listened to that which was made in one year, and the modern rock crit area was birthed by professional nostalgists and crate diggers. In asking a variety of professionals to mark what they were really listening to while maintaining the concept of an annual I didn’t want to engage in that act of crate digging, but I really did want to get a sense of what people were listening to. Think of it as the games people play with mix tapes, if mix tapes where really about what people listened to in 2006. The entries, comments (if offered) and biographies (if offered) are written by the critics (with their own eccentricities) themselves and they are arranged by their arrival in my inbox.
Simon Renyolds
Bio:
Simon Reynolds is the author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 and the forthcoming Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop.Albums:
- 1/ World of Twist, Quality Street (1991)
- 2/ Jake Thackray – Jake in a box, disc 3 (EMI box set, rec mid-Sixties, reissued 2006)
- 3/ Scritti Politti, White Bread Black Beer (2006)
- 4/ Wagon Christ, Throbbing Pouch (1995)
- 5/ Mordant Music, Dead Air (2006)
- 6/ The Doors, The Soft Parade, (1969)
- 7/ Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
- 8/ Juana Molina, Son (2006)
- 9/ Omni Trio--Vol 2 of “best of” compilation series made by self (1994-96)
- 10/ Lady Sovereign, Public Warning (2006)
