The really interesting thing about this is the way that the Age journalist here is so uneasily snide about pop from 14-15 years earlier as an Age journalist now would never (?) be. Also, the Kylie jibe is unexpected, it's kind of the way they used to talk about Nick Cave in the early 1980s before they decided he was the most extraordinarily brilliant being of the 20th-21st century.
The thing with putting band names in italics is also odd but whatever, they were obviously working shit out, or not.
That Gary Numan album he mentions was so legendary, until people actually heard some of the tracks (if I recall correctly some of them were released on the reissue of Breaking Silence). Whew! By the way I literally despise Gary Numan. Throw him on the XTC pile, though I never loved GN the way I loved XTC forty years ago.
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