N*E*W*S  Kieron Gillen Revisits S*M*A*S*H EP |
Revisited
10.01.06 @ 1:23 am
written by Kieron Gillen(excerpt)
I’m force-feeding Walker songs from S*M*A*S*H’s debut mini-album, trying to explain their contradictions and why for a year they were my favourite band on the surface of the planet, despite the fact I was always aware of their gaping, incredibly obvious flaws. They were the band who removed the black from my shoulder in favour of one hell of a lot of Khaki. I suspect These Animal Men rather than the Manics were actually to blame for the addition of Eyeliner.
REAL SURREAL/DRUGS AGAIN EP (Mar 1994 )
(I at once was completely wise and completely fell for New Wave of New Wave. It was a gloriously self-aware hype - clearly as a movement not at all 4 Real. The joy being pretending it was, which kind of made it more pop than a full year of PopJustice, to be honest. Faked orgasms can feel like the real one. If you can trick yourself, you can trick anyone.)
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