Lisa Milberg
The Concretes
What was the best album released in 2006 that few people heard?
Sibylle Baier’s Colour Green. It’s oh so pretty. I’d live inside it if I could.
What album or song do you feel best defines this generation?
I blame no one person for this but Crazy Frog’s version of “We Are the Champions” springs to mind.
If you could be one fictional character, who would you be and why?
Oooh, so many to choose from. I’d love to be a bad guy for a day at least. Al Swearengen from Deadwood or Omar from The Wire would be nice. Well, maybe not nice necessarily. Or I’d want to be Caroline and tell myself that both Colin Blunstone and Robert Wyatt had written unbelievably beautiful songs for me.
Be honest: Did you watch any episodes of Rock Star: Supernova?
No. But I did see an E.L.O. live performance from 1978 on BBC. Very good indeed.
In 2006, what was the best movie you saw, book you read, and/or TV show you watched?
Books: Alan Alda’s autobiography
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. Tony Hoagland’s poetry books.
Most of Joan Didion’s back catalogue. TV: Deadwood and
The Wire. Films are too long and yet so short these days. But
The Squid and the Whale, The Daniel Johnston documentary and
Brokeback Mountain stayed with me though.
Do you have any other thoughts about the current state of the
world or the state of the music industry?
In the words of ’80s one-hit wonder Yaz: “The Only Way is Up.” Though unlike when Yaz was around, these days there is a lot of beautiful music that still manages to make it all the way to people’s ears.
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