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bit of truth in that and albums if they were compilations/mixtapes so i'll have Acieed Inferno Vols 1 & 2 and some of the early Deep Heat double albums...lots of dodgy poppy stuff mixed up on these but loads of quality/underground stuff too and as eclectic as a lot of the parties were back...

Elton John: the "Blue Moves" album, plus singles like "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", "Philadelphia Freedom" - top quality stuff

this was also the period when trance and then hard house more or less took over...reflected in sales in both singles and (in the in the form of compilations) albums. I've heard it on good authority that there wasa a genuine feeling of anger and bewilderment at the NME that this was happening...

today i listenedto: (in the car at work) Cry Sisco - Afro Dizzi Act (along with Landlord "I Like It" brings back 1989 M25 memories more than just about anything else) JDS - London Town Def Set - Ogo (Digital Blondes End of an Era Mix) One Tribe - What Have You Done For Me? (at home tonight)...

and also on the hip hop tip Caveman...weren't they one of the few (only?) acts around then to actually get props from visiting US rappers at the time and from completely different genres also Atmosfear for "Dancin' In Outer Space" alone... still hard to think something this good was made in...

... far more irredeemable than anything else including hair metal, modern singer-songwriter etc is just about any NME-sanctioned indie/rock music of the last 25 years. Just the fact that it thinks its intrinsically better than the former stuff is another to make me cringe. Not that I'm exactly...

In the UK wouldn't the history of "street" music go something like this...? c1962-66 Mod (contemporary soul/bluebeat/some jazz) c1967-71 Hard Mod/Skinhead (from 1968) (reggae) proto Northern Soul fans (soul) c1972-83 (*in London and the South-East*...

being up in Leeds no I'm afraid and being a bit behind the times these days Ive only just heard her in the last few weeks. Now I have I can't believe she isnt the biggest thing in England at the moment...catchy tunes, from the underground, marketable personality amd most importantly, at least...

I love his writing both poetry and the novels...did my dissertation on him. Certainly Mayor of Casterbridge has coincidence but that criticism (if it is a criticism) can't be laid at the door of most of his novels unlike some of,for example,Charles Dickens' stuff which I find can make the whole...

i don't know what all the hostility is for I'd say the advent of rock n roll could very likely have been a black day for (western) artistic creativity. This idea that progressive developments in politics etc are in any way linked to rock n roll is dubious to say the least. Modern classical...

a bigger tosser than Alexis Petridis-and in Petridis's defence although he was the enemy within/a total fraud at least he wasnt so absolutely bleedin clueless... never knowingly met anyone from a top public school but have attended many reggae events and also know that Radiohead, Coldplay, the...

Completely agree but from what I remember from my years living down there and talking to people who grew up there those places ouside central London which produced the most significant hardcore/early jungle producers (Essex, South Hertfordshire, High Wycombe etc) were all within the broadcasting...

...Bang the Party/Hippy, Homeboy and a Funki Dread/D Mob/Cry Sisco/Bam Bam (American but recording in England)/Jack n Chill (!) etc etc And an article which gives new meaning to the word pointless..precisely the reason why i wouldnt touch anything pertaining to "popular culture" in the...

Agree up to a point...completely agree that the class model of british society has been on its way to redundancy probably since the dawn of grammar schools back in the 20s/30s(?). For example (and using the accepted 19th cenury terms) the lower middle class and upper working class now having...

Surely the first "revival" of something which to anyone except sad nme/broadsheet music writers and the ever-shrinking number of people who take them seriously is still hardly dead from the first time around. To be honest every week there's probably more "raves" in the wider context on around...

An eminently sensible idea I should think. And it's easy to forget that around 1988-92 we thought we were well on the way to consigning electric guitars to the museuems where they belong. A real hostility towards them ran through vast swathes of the "dance" scene back then (and still does to be...

Quote originally posted by Swears A couple of things I'd like to say here. I attended hard dance clubs for quite a few years and was fortunate to never have to associate with these type of people. Being a bit older than the average student and never having been one may have helped here. In the...