“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we inevitably look back to more momentous and dynamic times?” — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the non-reading of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He revels in all the empowering conveniences that the iPod offers, like being able to ‘correct’ albums by removing their weak tracks (even on… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“old music these days. He explained that the industry divided releases up into ‘current’ (which spanned from day one of release to fifteen months… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Jungle's sound-world constitutes a sort of abstract social realism; when I listen to techstep, the beats sound like collapsing (new) buildings and the bass… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
