Record club regular, Keith, took control in November. He went with a theme of “Being Difficult”—that is, artists which have challenged the status quo by being “difficult” in some way.
Just to be difficult, Keith messed with the format for this event, so rather than pick three complete albums, he played side 1s from six different albums.
- The Residents: ‘Meet the Residents’, 1974
- Tangerine Dream: ‘Rubycon’, 1975
- Holger Czukay: ‘Movies’, 1979
- Sonic Youth: ‘EVOL’, 1986
- Test Dept.: ‘The Unacceptable Face of Freedom’, 1986
- My Bloody Valentine: ‘Loveless’, 1991
The Kirkgate Centre
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EVOL

Sonic Youth
1986
After the success of Death Valley ’69, Sonic Youth set their distorted re-tuned guitars on stun and knock out an album of beautifully dischordant tunes. It’s Pop, Jim, but not as we know it.
Loveless

My Bloody Valentine
1991
The record that nearly bankrupted Creation, recorded in 19 different studios over two years, provided a no-compromise vision of music as how it really sounds in your head. A very influential album, they found it almost impossible to follow up, but they did, 22 years later!
Meet the Residents

The Residents
1974
Featured in the ‘Being Difficult’ event, this album cover upset the Beatles’ label. The Residents’ first album set their manifesto: throw away everything you learned about making music, and start again. No genre is safe from deconstruction or parody.
Movies

Holger Czukay
1979
Can’s bassist and engineer goes solo, and shows off his avant garde qualifications as a former student of Stockhausen and early adopter of World Music and Sampling.
Rubycon

Tangerine Dream
1975
Widely regarded as one of their best albums, this second outing on the Virgin label capitalised on the success of Phaedre, but with a more hypnotic and rhythmic result.
The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom

Test Dept.
1986
This collective of political artists prefer metal bars, industrial materials and hammers to musical instruments and produce a surprisingly musical result.