Defending The Indefensible - 16: The Who

(again, from Facebook.)

As Alistair puts it, these articles are merely sketches of an argument not the fully-realised canvas. I still think they hold interest, though: music criticism as dialogue. Any excuse to print Neil Kulkarni's words...

The Saints vs Billy Corgan

I'm listening to an MP3 of The Saints' album Live At Pig City. It's the one recorded back when Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey getting back together - to celebrate the launch of a book, even! Wow, didn't know the press could still excite such emotion - a couple of years ago, replete with a hard-nosed brass section clearly schooled by Kuepper to cut shapes of oblong and trapezoid in the balmy night air.