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MANCHESTER

  • The Buzzcocks

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • The Fall

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • Joy Division

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • The Duratti Column

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • John Cooper Clarke

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A Certain Ratio

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • New Order

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Smiths

    Votes: 3 15.0%
  • The Stone Roses

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 808 State

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • Happy Mondays

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Simply Red

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Take That

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Oasis

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Total voters
    20

Leo

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i'm older than all of you and it's all about the buzzcocks!

seriously: great singles band and great first three albums, growing up in public from one-chord wonders to arty post-punk pioneers in just two years. ok, forget about most of the later stuff but still.

and will always have soft spot for the fall, but not since their 80s-90s stuff.
 

droid

Well-known member
Dunno. Would've been about 5/6 when Simply Red began their descent to the nadir of pop... dont have any memories of the early 80s at all apart from saving up Kellogs coupons for a 7" copy of Paul Young's 'wherever I lay my hat'.. wouldve been '84 i guess?
 

luka

Well-known member
I saved up weetabix coupons and got a bananarama cassette. That's my only memory
 

luka

Well-known member
Something about that soft focus expensively produced blue eyed soul that meshes perfectly with west coast rap music
 

luka

Well-known member
A guy called Gerald is a funny one cos voodoo ray is perfect, platonic, but if you look at his oeuvre as a whole, it's nothing special
 

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
they practically invented UK funky with "fairground", remember?

Samples


which was massive in its day

Would give Mick major kudos for sharing his deep pockets with B&F however it's difficult to sympathise with someone who wrote this :eek:
 
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droid

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A guy called Gerald is a funny one cos voodoo ray is perfect, platonic, but if you look at his oeuvre as a whole, it's nothing special

Juicebox was one of the most idiosyncratic and overlooked of hardcore/jungle labels, and most of his 90's output was stellar.
 

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
Juicebox was one of the most idiosyncratic and overlooked of hardcore/jungle labels, and most of his 90's output was stellar.

+1

The BST LP stil stands up pretty well as does that Digital Bad Boy EP but 'energy' alone puts him up there. Besides Voodoo Ray there is Rhythm Of Life other great acid house tracks. There are few who managed to do house, techno and jungle well.
 

droid

Well-known member
+1

The BST LP still stands up pretty well as does that Digital Bad Boy EP but 'energy' alone puts him up there. Besides Voodoo Ray there is Rhythm Of Life other great acid house tracks. There are few who managed to do house, techno and jungle well.

Reminding myself how good that label was. Somewhere between Reinforced & Ibiza. A serious contender.

 

droid

Well-known member
BTW - there's 'digital' bad boy:


& '28 gun' bad boy:


And IIRC, there was only 1 release and a few months between them.
 
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