Songs That Lux Taught Us by Lake for outsideleft.com

by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: February, 2009

Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time.

by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: February, 2009

Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time.

this is love...

ANCIENT CHAMPION
Ancient Champion's A Song For Damian Marquez The Tailor - January 24th, 2020

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.

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.

this is love...

ANCIENT CHAMPION
Ancient Champion's A Song For Damian Marquez The Tailor - January 24th, 2020

Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest - Bill Callahan
Return to Me - Lilac Time
2020 - Richard Dawson
Chalk Hill Blue - Will Burns & Hannah Peel
All Mirrors - Angel Olsen

Shlagenheim - black midi
The Imperial - The Delines
Old New - Tomeka Reid Quartet
Ugh, Those Feels Again - Snoh Aalegra
5 - Sault

You Made it this Far - Esther Rose
Hiding Places - billy woods + Kenny Segal
I Found a Place - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Thanks for the Dance - Leonard Cohen
Walk Through Fire - Yola

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We Really Did This and We Really Existed - David Benjamin Blower
The Reeling - Brighde Chaimbeul
Eton Alive - Sleaford Mods
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Biiri - Nihiloxica

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Songs That Lux Taught Us