Fronted by a whispering beatnik, flanked by a Polish dancer and a phalanx of fidgety guitarists, Bristol’s Blue Aeroplanes were the action-painted art-rockers you needn’t fly to New York to find.
Expensively recorded in LA in 1992, a decade into their apparently endless flight, Beatsongs presaged an REM-style breakthough, with its chart-bound bite at the culturally forbidden fruit of Paul Simon’s Boy In The Bubble.
But the public eschewed their art school Americana, and The Aeroplanes escaped fame’s Faustian ignominy, to ride the thermals into cherished cultdom.
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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