Category: Music
Issue 46 May 1999
The Natural Laws of Music
Discussing the state of music criticism
Issue 46 May 1999
Culture Club
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Issue 46 May 1999
The Trouble With Harry
Harry Nilsson
Issue 37 November-December 1997
Hipgnotic Suggestion
At some point in the last couple of decades, the album cover faded in significance. It is difficult to pinpoint the precise moment at which this happened, and hard to explain exactly why. It was possibly something to do with the arrival of Punk; it definitely happened before the appearance of the CD. Certainly as a vehicle for design, the CD cover just doesn’t work: it is not just the piddling scale with its visibly screened photographs and illegible five point type, but the fact that you are looking at the image through a millimetre-thick block of scratched, poorly-moulded plastic
Issue 11 June-August 1993
Oh I Do Believe
The Velvet Underground
Issue 6 September-October 1992
Mark E Smith
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