MANCHESTER

[rubberdingyrapids]

i hate that london town song. but this one - David Joseph You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me) makes me think of broken beat or uk funky. or even some of the shangaan electro stuff. i can see lil silva remixing it for some reason.

 

[luka]

The first song and the last two on my list are my favourites. I love them.

 

[luka]

I can understand hating the London town song but I like that vibe. Reminds me of this heatwave classic (who also have a British connection)

 

[mistersloane]

"Minefield" over "Give Me" by I-level, but it's nitpicking. I loved I Level.

I'm shocked you've omitted Imagination.

 

[Leo]

Surely no 52nd or 54th St in Manchester?

it's a nyc thing:

Following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, 52nd Street replaced 133rd street as "Swing Street" of the city. The blocks of 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue became renowned for the abundance of jazz clubs and lively street life. The street was convenient to musicians playing on Broadway and the 'legitimate' nightclubs and was also the site of a CBS studio. Musicians who played for others in the early evening played for themselves on 52nd Street.

In its heyday from 1930 through the early 1950s, 52nd Street clubs hosted such jazz legends as Miles Davis, Harry Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Nat Jaffe, Marian McPartland, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Louis Prima, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Trummy Young, and many more. Although musicians from all schools performed there, after Minton's Playhouse in uptown Harlem, 52nd Street was the second most important place for the dissemination of bebop;.[1] In fact, a tune called "52nd Street Theme" by Thelonious Monk became a bebop anthem and jazz standard.

 

[luka]

Cool. Thank you Leo

Tbh I enjoy imagination but I've never fallen head over heels with any one song. What's your favourite?

 

[luka]

Me and Mr sloane like this too

 

[mistersloane]

Cool. Thank you Leo

Tbh I enjoy imagination but I've never fallen head over heels with any one song. What's your favourite?

Personally? In and Out of Love extended version, but Just an Illusion is probably their killer just for the bassline. And the video. And the Nightdubbing version. The whole of Nightdubbing is wonderful.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Lighthouse Family were a 90s thing, weren't they? They were fucking rubbish, anyway.

'Lifted' becomes an OK song if you mentally substitute 'fist' for 'lift'.

 

[Corpsey]

Lighthouse Family's existence was justified by Alan Johnson listening to it in his Mercedes on Peep Show. See also: Toploader.

 

[droid]

it has to be the smiths cos they made two perfect albums (meat is murder, queen is dead), two great ones (debut, strangeways), and an amazing run of great singles and b-sides that weren't on the albums.

Smiths over Joy Division? I see where youre coming from but I just cant accept that.

 

[woops]

 

[Benny Bunter]

Smiths over Joy Division? I see where youre coming from but I just cant accept that.

New order over joy division.

The smiths over EVERYONE.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Actually, what I said about the smiths also applies to the fall. 2 perfect albums (hex enduction, nations saving grace) a bunch of great singles and miscellany. But I have to be in the mood for them whereas I can always sling on the smiths or new order.
New order also had a great run but I don't think they were that good at making albums. At their best they beat JD though.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I bet mr tea likes dragnet right?

 

[Mr. Tea]

I bet mr tea likes dragnet right?

It's a great film. Dan Ackroyd is great generally.

Sorry, I don't have much to say about music from Manchester except that I like Joy Division and don't like Oasis. Never got on with the Smiths either.

 

[luka]

You named a story spectre vs rector which is what benny is alluding to

 

[Mr. Tea]

You named a story spectre vs rector which is what benny is alluding to

Ahhhh. Yeah I've heard some Fall I like, don't know them at all well though. It's just a great phrase and very evocative of a story, I thought.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ahhhh. Yeah I've heard some Fall I like, don't know them at all well though. It's just a great phrase and very evocative of a story, I thought.

M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth rape me lord
Sludge hai choi, choi choi son

M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth Ray Milland
Van Greenway R. Corman
Sludge hai choi choi choi son

Part one: spectre versus rector
The rector lived in Hampshire
The spectre was from Chorazina
In evil dust in the air
The rector locked his doors

Part two: detective drives through Hampshire
Stops because of the fog there
And thinks a visit to the rector
And meanwhile and meanwhile

Spectre possesses rector
Rector becomes spectre
Sludge hai choi choi choi son
Sludge hai choi choi choi son
Enter inspector
Even as he spoke a dust devil suddenly arose and struck him

Part four: detective versus rector
Detective versus rector possessed by spectre
Spectre blows him against the wall
Says direct, "this is your fall"
I've waited since Caesar for this
Damn Latin my hate is crisp
I'll rip your fat body to pieces"

M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth Ray Milland
Van Greenway R. Corman

Scene five, scene five:
Comes a hero
Soul possessed a thousand times
Only he could rescue rector
Only he could save inspector
And this hero was a strange man
"Those flowers, take them away," he said,
"They're only funeral decorations
And oh this is a drudge nation
A nation of no imagination
A stupid man is their ideal
They shun me and think me unclean,
Unclean...

"I have saved a thousand souls
They cannot even save their own
I'm soaked in blood but always good
It's like I drunk myself sober,
I get better as I get older."

M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth rape me lord
Van Greenway R. Corman
Sludge hai choi choi choi son
Sludge hai choi choi choi son

Part six:
That was his kick from life
That's how he pads out his life
Selling his soul to the devil
And the spectre enters hero
But the possession is ineffectual
But the possession is ineffectual
And the possession is ineffectual

And M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth rape me lord
Van Greenway R. Corman
Sludge hai choi choi choi son
Sludge hai choi choi choi son, I said
Sludge hai choi choi choi son

Last scene:
Hero and inspector walk from the scene
Is the spectre banished forever?
The inspector is half insane
The hero goes back into the mountains
The hero goes back into the mountains
He was an exorcist but he was exhausted
An exorcist but he was exhausted
The rector is dead on the floor

M.R. James be born be born
Yog Sothoth Ray Milland
Van Greenway R. Corman
Sludge hai choi choi choi son
Sludge hai choi choi choi son

[...] chosen son
Van Greenway R. Corman
Van Greenway R. Corman
Yog Sothoth Ray Milland
Yog Sothoth rape me lord

 

[Benny Bunter]

Didn't know you had a story called that. I just thought it would be your sort of thing.