Geniuses

"I'll tell you about punk rock. Punk rock is a word used by dilletantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it's a term that's based on contempt. It's a term that's based in fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll.

I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself. And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything, and you don't want to either. You know, like that?"

(Iggy Pop in het nummer Punk rock van het album Come on Die young van Mogwai)

Ik weet nog hoe Iggy dit verhaal met bloed en zweet bewees op Lowlands, mooie herinnering aan de grondlegger van de punk rock...

Hier nog twee geniuses, maar dan vers van de pers :

Bright Eyes - Smoke without fire (bijgestaan door M. Ward)
(Van zijn nieuwe ep Four winds)

en reeds in de ether, de nieuwe van Bill Callahan, ook wel Smog of nog vroeger (smog) :

Bill Callahan - Honeymoon child
(Van album Woke on a Whaleheart)

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