Bought OTD in 1970: ground breaking systems/ minimal/ trance classic. One side is up and bubbly, the other A psychotropic drone. The vortex awaits - dive in

Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses (Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest is blues and novelties .

Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’

Penetration article by Jon Savage and Pic by Rik Walton in Sounds 17th, December 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Sunset at Llanfairfechan pond

Bought OTD in 1972: great non-Pepper 1967 round up. Classic singles obvs but great lesser known songs like Baby You’re A Rich Man and Flying. MMT is an acid reflux classic and I Am The Walrus a wonderful damn-you-England hallucination. Wish they’d included It’s All Too Much, tho

Bought OTD in 1972: the outer limits of SF psych - blues based songs from the ex Oxford Circle transformed by sharp lyrics and the most hallucinogenic guitar. Consistent throughout with ambient drone ending - The Lemonaide Kid

Live At The Vortex album reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 10th, December 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1970: the Dead at their most whacked out and hermetic. St Stephen, Rosemary, What’s Become of the Baby - love it. Special mention for Mountains of the Moon, the perfect end-of-the-night song. Fantastic cover by Rick Griffin

Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 3rd, December 1977 including Talking Heads, Alternative TV and Slade. @jonsavage.bsky.social

OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu

The Ramones album 'Rocket To Russia' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 26th, November 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

26th, November 1977 an article on New Musick by Jane Suck, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic. Part 1 the Brian Eno interview. "Think it rather as 'texture', Sublimity." @jonsavage.bsky.social

Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature. @jonsavage.bsky.social

New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk @jonsavage.bsky.social @throbbinggristle.bsky.social @theresidents.bsky.social @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social @syntheticdreamspod.bsky.social

CTR on Bandcamp Daily - Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social & Erick Bradshaw for the piece - it's just great !" CTR doesn't just fill in the gaps in your record collection" LOVE it . HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...

I wrote up the great CTR. Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.

OTD in 1976 I want to see the Sex Pistols for the first time. Notre Dame Hall, just off Leicester Square, being filmed for LWT. A media event - felt Warholian with the lights cameras and people wearing weird clothes acting out. I am at left back with the beret, moving in. Photo by Jonh Ingham

Going through some old photos, found this portrait photo by the Kate Simon in the Sounds office Long Acre late 1977

Bought OTD in 1969: still my favourite Neil Young album (amid stiff competition). It’s lush LA pop, it’s psychedelic (those layered guitars and heart beats), it’s got Jack Nitzsche arrangements- and to cap it all, The Loner. Wrongly written off, it’s just fantastic in this original version

5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted." @sexpistolsofficial.bsky.social @glenmatlock.bsky.social @jonsavage.bsky.social

An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins. @jonsavage.bsky.social @kcmanc.bsky.social

Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more. @buzzcocks.com @jonsavage.bsky.social

RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out

Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely

At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet

Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year

Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia

Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social @buzzcocks.com

Sun at last

Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray

Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it

Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes

Bought OTD in 1972: one of two, the past and the future. This is a proper 1967 psych album - not too many of those - with jammy excursions, sitar drenched Dave Mason songs and Steve Winwood’s beautiful No Face No Name No Number. One last rave up on the title track too

Bought OTD in 1970: this was a huge one for me at the time - twisted psych blues with a unique vision. So many great songs: Electricity. Plastic Factory, Yellow Brick Road, Sure ‘Nuff, Zig Zag Wanderer, Dropout Boogie. The one that crept up on me: the version of Robert Williams’ Grown So Ugly

I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...

Sounds Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage, 7th, October 1978. Including Public Image, Cabaret Voltaire, Penetration, Stiff Little Fingers and The Yachts. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Very pleased to have images from my early 77 fanzine London’s Outrage 2 (photos taken from the Uninhabited London series) in the Rock’n Roll Public Library zine #2

1st, October 1977 an article on The Heartbreakers by Jon Savage and pics by Andre Csillag and Ray Stevenson. "....you can be an asshole and still be a rock'n'roll star. (Laughter)." @jonsavage.bsky.social

The Heartbreakers' album 'L.A.M.F.' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 1st, October 1977 . @jonsavage.bsky.social

46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979). @robertrotifer.bsky.social

46 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979).

Don't recall seeing at the time, directed by Derek Jarman. I think I learned about it from a post by @jonsavage.bsky.social

Ace live version of Hero by Neu! in 1974/5 - pre punk or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuB...

Talking about the new Ace comp, 1986-1990 Rollin Under the Melody with John Robb louderthanwar.com/jon-savage/

Buzzcocks album 'Love Bites' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 23rd, September 1978. @buzzcocks.com @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: very late SF plus a Grateful Dead solo album to boot. I like it more than any of the others at the same time (Weir, Garcia). It’s got a great Kelley/ Mouse cover, the best version of Playing In The Band, Shoshone chants andcool originals Fletcher Carnaby and Blind Man

Bought OTD in 1972: covers of James Brown, Paul Simon and psychedelic Beatles (Rain, Day Tripper) ? Check. Groovy hard rock opener (Downer) ? Check. Cool flash and energy from post Spirit Randy California - gratefully received in the hard rock desert of 1972