[E.O.M.S.]

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Fun-Da-Mental - Ja Sha Taan/Mr Bubbleman (Recovery 1997)

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For Muslims living in the West the future lies not in the tinkering of theology but in the production of culture. But how is this process of cultural relevancy to take place? Is it taking place? What are its discernible forms? What are the challenges that need to be surmounted before a genuine cultural expression takes root? And what and who is to define what is 'genuine'? To that extent is cultural output in Islamic civilisation a utilitarian exercise? In the global village of specialised economies and shared global tastes where does the process of being consumers stop and that of being producers of culture begin? What needs to be done to convert Western society to associate Islam with the beauty of the Taj Mahal and the Majesty of the Dome of the Rock rather than with the blasted Twin Towers of New York or the shattered Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? Can we develop an agenda of cultural do's that would harness the energy of our young people -- to teach them that singing, creating, beautifying and being joyous are all part of the Islamic agenda?

The Badgermin

Via

Oneohtrix Point Never - I Bite Through It

Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

The Heartbreakers

SBS Studios, Yonkers. New York,

Johnny Thunders: guitar & vocals

Richard Hell: bass & vocals

Walter Lure: guitar & vocals

Jerry Nolan: drums

01 Love Comes In Spurts

02 I Wanna Be Loved

03 Blank Generation

04 Chinese Rocks

05 Pirate Love

06 Can't Keep My Eyes On You

07 Flight

08 Hurt Me

09 You Gotta Lose

10 Goin' Steady

(Richard Hell's R.I.P. album gives the recording date of these tracks as 1975. 'Love Comes In Spurts', 'Can't Keep My Eyes On You' and 'Hurt Me' all appear on R.I.P.
There is also a possible recording date given of January 23, 1976)

Chinese Rocks/Pirate Love (NYC 1975)

Get it

HERE

Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

01 Ignore That Door

02 Lowest Common Denominator

(Studio recording date/location unknown but it has to surely be after 1982 when 'Destiny Street', where these songs originated from, was recorded and released)

Get it

HERE

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Richard Hell: Go Now

Richard Hell reads chapters 1 and 2 of 'Go Now'
With guitar by Bob Quine

Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness and Charm (Marc 7/9/1977)

Essential Logic - Shabby Abbott

FILTH!

Regardless of where you stand on Corbyn, this is an utterly vile statement by Cameron, more worthy of Farage (or le Pen, or Putin) than the leader of a democracy. The PM has just used the exact same language to describe Labour as he does ISIS and al Qaeda. So the official political opposition to the government is now a "national security threat"? And what do we do with "national security threats" these days? We strip them of rights, treat them as enemies and terrorists. Is the PM saying that Labour -- and anyone who supports it -- is now a terrorist? Will he send Teresa May with flying squads to raid Labour meetings at the local church hall?
No, of course not. He is simply — and quite deliberately — using Faragian rhetoric to further poison the political culture, to sow division, hatred and fear among the electorate. Like the Tea Party in America, his Tories have nothing to offer but fear and demonization of all those who disagree with them or present the slightest alternative to their extremist cult of austerity and neoliberalism.
But oh, what a grand and noble figure the PM cuts, thundering down from his bully pulpit! Look at him there, with his well-tailored suit, his well-fed frame, his well-tanned face, as he denounces the mortal danger of opposing his enlightened rule and his holy cult. A man who sells arms in crooked deals to the misogynist, head-chopping religious extremists in Saudi Arabia. A man who sells arms to militant factions who force children into battle. A man who turned Libya into a terrorist-spawning chaos and did nothing to help restore it, who supports “moderate” Islamic extremists to keep the civil war churning in Syria, a man who sells off whole chunks of the nation’s security infrastructure to foreign powers … THIS is the man who denounces his opponents as a “national security threat.”
I knew the Tories and their string-pullers in the oh-so-patriotic right-wing media (a gaggle of non-doms, foreigners, porn merchants and tax-dodgers) would strike hard and low — no matter WHO Labour picked as leader. (Yes, we would have been seeing “Red Liz” or “Commie Cooper” or “Andy Anarchy in the UK” headlines this morning if the vote had gone another way. Don’t kid yourself.) But to see them go so low so quickly — with the Prime Minister himself regurgitating hysterical Tea Party bile in such a bald-faced fashion — is stunning.
I’ll say it again: this is vile. This goes beyond the rough-and-tumble of hardball partisan politics into the realm of hate speech and provocation. (If Corbyn is a “national security threat” — just like ISIS — shouldn’t he be “taken out”? If he — or the Labour Party in general — is a “threat to your family’s security,” shouldn’t some stalwart dad out there do “whatever it takes” to protect his little ones from this imminent danger? These are the sinister notions Cameron is feeding into the national psyche.)
Cameron — like Trump, whose followers are now beating up people who look like immigrants — is playing with fire here. And he knows it. And he doesn’t care. This message is a vile, shameful, morally putrid piece of filth
Chris Floyd