this is josh g

to add to the headphone revelation series:

cornershop "heavy soup/outro" – how could I have never noticed that there’s a bass clarinet mixed in there?! amazing!

nightmares on wax, from smoker’s delight  "track 1" – wow. just wow.

doors "break on through" – the use of stereo in this is fantastic! and though the music is great, JM’s voice in the middle of your head is SUPER fierce.

So much Beatles-mania going on right now…this is from the Pitchfork review of Please Please Me:

Rather than a band whose path to the top was ordained by their genius, they were a group with the luck to meet opportunities, the wit to recognize them, the drive to seize them, and the talent to fulfil them.