Love giving you every possible opportunity to laugh in my face. Here's a bit of backroom chat from an email to Kodwo Eshun:
> I thought you hated America-What was that cartoon of yours-were someone
> sells a bunch of crappy records including America.I laughed but quailed a bit too
I blinked when I read this, couldn’t for the life of me remember what I'd put in there. I did that comic in 1996. Went back and had another look:
Human League, Simple Minds, Kajagoogoo, America.
Amazing really when you think ALL of this stuff has been classed trendy. Bar Kajagoogoo. For a while it was just Punishment of Luxury and Being Boiled, but then Love Action. (sweats) Then Simple Minds....does no-one remember that Cope-related tale of Jim Kerr tossing Faust records off Gorbals tower blocks. (CHRIST even that sounds cool!) I'm even tempted to pick up New Gold Dream, and come clean (at last) at my teenage lust for Waterfront.
Actually not sure if it doesn’t say more about the online taste machine. America was, I must have thought my safest card, maybe I should have put Chicago (though see the Ive Mendes "If you leave me now" cover) or Boston (I dunno, you tell me). I've NEVER heard an America track, so on what grounds I was holding forth......
Posted by Woebot at June 11, 2003 11:56 AM