I feel an obsession bomb coming on.
It’s happened a few times before, and when it happens, boy is it ugly. Close friends and enemies beware: it’s about to happen again, I know it.
Examples of past obsession bombs: Buying every single Magnetic Fields release within a week; Buying every single They Might Be Giants album within 2 weeks;
seeing Star Wars Episode 1 twelve stupid times in the theatre; seeing Trainspotting 4 times in the theater in one day.
Where will the next obsession bomb drop?
MANCHESTER, UK.
See, last Sunday me and my sweetheart rented 24 Hour Party People, a film about Tony Wilson and the Manchester music scene (which includes Joy Division,
Happy Mondays, New Order, etc.).
While I’m not going to obsess over the music itself, I do think I’m going to obsess over the city, over Factory Records, the Hacienda, over Tony Wilson. It’s too late.
Don’t try and stop me. The bomb has been loaded.
Right now, my world of reference is just this film. If I were to believe the film, and for right now I will, Tony Wilson was in the center of this entire scene,
putting together record label collectives, promoting indie music in mainstream spaces. Making things happen.
I want to know every single bit of information about Wilson and this scene. I want to memorize timelines, shout out lyrics to songs I dont even like with all my heart, and maybe, just maybe, buy a Smiths album.
Recommendations on what I should read or what I should listen to should be posted here.
Fuel my obsession bomb, everyone, because you can’t turn it around.