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Richard Ashcroft, “Paradise,” from Human Conditions (Hut, 2002)
I was looking for an excuse to put up a Richard Ashcroft song, not that I really needed one, but it turns out his birthday isn’t anytime soon. (It’s actually September 11, fittingly enough, for a man of his caliber of omnirelevance.) Everybody hated/still hates Human Conditions, by the way, except for me and Chris, but they’re all fools (except for me and Chris).
In 2003, when asked about the reception to Human Conditions, Ashcroft responded: “If I had put on fifteen stone and Kate had left me and I’d almost [overdosed] on smack, then this record would have been received very well.”
Actually, now that I think about it, I hereby declare September 11 Richard Ashcroft Day. I mean, talk about healing the wounds of a nation. We get together, we listen to his solo albums one after the other, we straighten it all out. Nature Is the Law.
Posted on February 8, 2011 ()
"It was only four tracks written on the machine, but I was picking up twenty from the extraterrestrial squad." —Lee Perry
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