tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388160584739793679.post4665204704895429935..comments2024-03-28T22:36:56.999-07:00Comments on ReynoldsRetro: Tricky - reviews, interviews, retrospectivesSIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388160584739793679.post-61876313887710710562018-09-03T16:03:00.935-07:002018-09-03T16:03:00.935-07:00Hey Simon,
I myself only came back here today, wh...Hey Simon,<br /><br />I myself only came back here today, when I realized that my email account was down for a time in August. It's alive now, so if you sent me your email, I'd be thrilled to serve you with some YouTube links of our local brand of postpunk from the early 80s. (Not to crowd this comments section with it.)<br /><br />Ever since I came across your "Independents Day" piece in the early oughts, and later during the many re-readings of Rip It Up, I've been wondering whether you've heard any of the postpunk music from around here. For those of us who have grown up with it (I was 6 in 1980), that time in Yugoslavia (right after president Tito died) and its music have acquired a mythical aura. The freedom and intensity of the music from that short era at the beginning of the 80s, before the first signs of the country's breakup that would follow, is like some paradise lost, the stuff of urban legend that we're now passing on to our children. And although, thanks in no small part to the many musical hints coming from you over the years and the digging-up of various bands on the Web, I've come to recognize influences, inspirations and lift-offs from seminal (mostly British) post punks in the music of the bands here, I believe some of them were truly special. I hope you get interested.<br /><br />I intended on keeping it short here, so once again: vujsa@sbb.rs<br />Milos from Serbianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388160584739793679.post-30087094328505205082018-08-22T11:33:04.895-07:002018-08-22T11:33:04.895-07:00hi Milos, i only just saw your comment at the Tric...hi Milos, i only just saw your comment at the Tricky post - i don't check the comments often enough!<br /><br />yeah i think i came around a bit to Juxtapose, decided the review had been a little harsh and that it was an interesting sound they'd come up with<br /><br />i am not familiar with the postpunk of the former Yugoslavia in general or Serbia in particular - if you've got any tips of particular tunes on YouTube i'll check them out<br /><br />glad you enjoyed Rip It Up - for the 20th anniversary (which is some way off - 2025) i will probably do an expanded version, with an 'esoteric discography + commentary' on things i missed, and hopefully have some stuff on European postpunk. <br /><br />i tried to email this to you at the email you provided BTW, but it bounced backSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04914714256308986691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388160584739793679.post-84010529152982124682018-08-04T06:29:01.681-07:002018-08-04T06:29:01.681-07:00That's Belgrade at the end of the last one, no...That's Belgrade at the end of the last one, not Balgrade.<br /><br />e-mail: vujsa@sbb.rsMilos from Serbianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388160584739793679.post-11361639847478070212018-08-04T06:07:06.713-07:002018-08-04T06:07:06.713-07:00Glad you dug these out!
I loved Tricky in the nine...Glad you dug these out!<br />I loved Tricky in the nineties, but only came to know the magic of The Pop Group later, and never knew that him and Mark Stewart had been pals. Wonderful connection of the two of may all-time favourites!<br />I developed a soft spot for Juxtapose back in 1999. I wonder if you might have kinder words for it now, seeing how it signified Tricky's total departure from zeitgeist and relevance that came after? I enjoyed it as a fun album by someone not pressured to prove anything any more.<br />I also remember cherry-picking Blowback a few years later, to defend it from just about everybody by then.<br /><br />P.S. (off topic) Rip It Up is regarded as somewhat of a Bible on music in our home, although I enjoyed some of the other books of yours as well. I've been going back to various chapters of Rip It Up for more than 10 years now. It has led me to some impossibly exciting music and some of the best I ever heard!<br />I've also been meaning to write to you for a long time, to check if you're familiar with any of the excellent Yugoslavian post-punk groups from the early 80s, and Serbian in particular, such as Sarlo akrobata or Idoli, to mention just a couple dearest to me, from my native Balgrade.<br />Milos from Serbianoreply@blogger.com