SONGS THAT LUX TAUGHT US
Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time.
Pictured above is my membership card to the Cramps fan club from back in the early 1980s. Twenty six years ago I thought the Cramps were quite possibly the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world and that Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time. Sitting here now after being prompted to watch it again on youtube after hearing of the sad death of Lux Interior I realise that, for once, my 16 year old self was 100% correct.
About the Author
Lake,
Editor, London
the first journalism Lake ever had published was a history of Johnny Thunders for Record Collector magazine, since then he has written for publications including the Guardian, Dazed and Confused, the Idler and more recently, outsideleft.com as you have just seen. (biography/all stories)
MUSIC ARCHIVE
Donny Ducote: My Christmas Wish List is Ancient History now
Tav Falco's Christmas Stocking Stuffer Wish List
Queens of the Underground - The Rolling Stones
Hats Off to Larry
Mariel Roberts, Nonextraneous Sounds
Shabazz Palaces - Alive
Let Your Hair Down Kathleen Edwards
Heavier Than Heaven
Would it kill Tom Waits to record a collection of late night piano ballads?
American Idol in London: Tav Falco's Panther Burns the 100 Club Alive
Tav Falco in Your Town
Folk Forms: Richard Strauss & Bela Bartok
Hot Ginger's 5 Alternative Xmas Swing Tunes
Tav Falco's Blue Christmas Tour
And they were into music, for real: The Story of Slint
My Beady Eye
Tangled Foilage and Dusky Air: Ariosto & Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso
Deerhunter and the Halcyon Days of Autumn
Wondering About the Suburbs
Personal Space: Corey Dargel and Matt Marks
The National and the Class Song of the Damned
Mad Dogs and British Columbians: The Fall and Frog Eyes
All Things Raf and O
We Like American Music: Titus Andronicus and The Red Krayola
Drive-By Truckers Sit Their Narrow Asses Down
Beyonce Speaks Out
The Light reflecting Off of My Hero's Grave: Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique
McLaren in the Pits
My Rival - Alex Chilton Remembered
Alex Chilton Dead
It's Time For Beyonce to Have a Baby
Pantha Du Prince: Very Airport
Tindersticks Love You Too Much, Baby
Heavy Metal Kid Neil Daniels
Let Us Remember Beauty
A Stay of Execution for Gil Scott-Heron
Four Tet: OK, OK, I'll Dance Already
Owen Pallett: Sweet Nothings
What do you call a bloodsucking fiend in the daytime?
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