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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Flo & Eddie review "Metal Machine Music" for Phonograph Record's "Blind Date" column, July 1975 (F&E would be played sides of LPs without being told who they were by)

This guy is on the verge of making
it? Mothers, do something! It's easy to
see why this guy's a big one. Larry
Coryell. Yeah! Louder! Melodic son-of-abitch,
isn't he? Jeff Beck. Known for his
lyric abilities? You're not kidding, are
you. ..Michael Quatro. Eno. Isthere a skip
on this? No, it just keeps making this
awful noise. Does it do anything else but
this? Is this progressive? Four sides'! Sure
it's not AI Kooper? I've never heard
anything this awful. Move it up. C'mon,
get serious now, move it up! Well, play
another another side. Move it up. What!
OK, I want to say something right
here: This might be the last Blind Date for
us. This is absolutely the worst— there
has never been a lower piece of product
released ever under any circumstances.
Whatever label had the nerve to put this
out should be banned from releasing
records! (At this point Flo reared up in all
his leviathan might, ripped the record
from the turntable, and in one agonized
convulsion shattered it against the
bannister). Who was that? What do you
mean, Lou Reed? I just don't understand
any more. What does he mean by that?

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

laughing out loud in the cube at “Melodic son-of-a-bitch, isn’t he?”

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