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Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story of post punk, music and changing times part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground Bakerloo Brown is carpet colour, corduroy colour, cow colour, fake tan It s not chocolate square there s something flavourless about it Actually, it s earth colour In Earthbound , Paul Morley uses the Bakerloo line to tell the story of post punk, the NME, his first Sony Walkman and the curious history of a little known German group called Can , meditating on memory, music, taste, technology and the things that connect us Critic and cultural theorist Paul Morley has written books about music history, Joy Division , suicide, the moog synthesiser and the north of England A contributor to numerous publications from the Face to the Financial Times , a founding member of the Art of Noise, he appears regularly on BBC 2 s The Review Show and has presented radio and television documentaries on many subjects including Brian Eno, boredom, the recording studio and Anthony Burgess He uses an unregistered Oyster Card. Free Download Earthbound By Paul Morley For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A part of the Penguin Lines series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Paul Morley s paean to the Tube s Bakerloo line is written in his typically modernist , sub Jocyean rambling style Now, I haven t traveled on the Tube an awful lot, but whenever I have it s invariably been on the Bakerloo line, and I know it s an unlovely and, I assumed, unloved thing And that, of course, is what Morley makes a virtue of He likens it to a floppy brown slipper and sighs ap A part of the Penguin Lines series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Paul Morley s paean to the Tube s Bakerloo line is written in his typically modernist , sub Jocyean rambling style Now, I haven t traveled on the Tube an awful lot, but whenever I have it s invariably been on the Bakerloo line, and I know it s an unlovely and, I assumed, unloved thing And that, of course, is what Morley makes a virtue of He likens it to a floppy brown slipper and sighs appreciatively at its un...This book by journalist Paul Morley has a very unconventional feel, largely because its principal subjects are the London Underground specifically the Bakerloo line and the music industry, both subjects that he seems to be fanatical about.It sounds like a strange mixture, and it is So, one moment, Morley will be talking about the London Underground and its history, and then suddenly the book will turn into an essay about the development of the Walkman and the author s favourite bands, focussi This book by journalist Paul Morley has a very unconventional feel, largely because its principal subjects are the London Underground specifically the Bakerloo line and the music industry,...Of the titles I ve read in the Penguin Underground series, Earthbound is by far my favourite Morley documents his experience of his line of choice, the Bakerloo, from first moving to London from the north in the late 1970s, very soon before the line converted to the Jubilee in 1979 But this isn t a narrative autobiographic tale so much as several concurrent stories occurring in different times, and Morley seamlessly fuses different strands of culture from different eras, into one line The c Of the titles I ve read in the Penguin Underground series, Earthbound is by far my favourite Morley documents his experience of his line of choice, the Bakerloo, from first moving to London from the north in the late 1970s, very soon before the line converted to the Jubilee in 1979 But this isn t a narrative autobiographic tale so much as several concurrent stories occurring in different times, and Morley seamlessly fuses different strands of culture from different eras, into one line The common themes are technological and cultural advances the Sony ...An interesting speculative riff on the Bakerloo Line by right on music critic Morley,a stalwart regular on BBC s Review Show on Friday nights.His little book is wordy but still worthy, gave a whole new scatological meaning to going up the Bakerloo Line,with reference to Annie Nightingale Morley has different tastes in music to me, but I appreciated many of his musings on the fleeting nature of our daily thoughts observations,so easily lost in our isolated reveries.This is one An interesting speculative riff on the Bakerloo Line by right on music critic Morley,a stalwart regular on BBC s Review Show on Friday nights.His little book is wordy but still worthy, gave a whole new scatological meaning to going up the Bakerloo Line,with reference to Annie Nightingale Morley has different tastes in music to me, but I appr...The only one of Penguin s books about Tube lines which jumped out at me, I d been meaning to save this until I was taking a Bakerloo journey of decent length But Hell, what s reading on public transport for if not to transport you somewhere else And of course, like any book any Paul Morley book, doubly so this is not just about its ostensible topic It s about the Walkman, and Google, and Can, and Peel sessions considered as pop s own Underground, an alternate map of the territory And I The...When Morley writes about the impact or the suggest impact of the Sony Walkman portable cassette player, it s really interesting Also it s quite fair to read about his travels on the London underground, even though I m Swedish and have very little knowledge or experience of riding that system Still, at its worst...The series of smallish, not nearly affordable enough paperbacks which includes Earthbound is themed around the lines of the London Underground Naturally, therefore, Paul Morley writes about postpunk, and the Sony Walkman, and Google and Can and what have you, as if the Bakerloo line ran from ...Morley s at his best when he mixes music and memoir to make manifesto and memories shake hands this is a fun wee commissioned essay Worth a look if you re a fan.I couldn t shake the feeling that astrictly Tube focused, better book was within reach if the author could set music further aside.

Earthbound
  • English
  • 04 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 137 pages
  • 1846146453
  • Paul Morley
  • Earthbound