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Colin Macinnes novels, Absolute Beginners etc are worth checking out and also Jonathan Green's oral history of the Sixties, Days In The Life, actually starts in the 50s so gives a very good sense of the period. The Generation X book mentioned earlier is by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson...

There's also another track from her late (and largley rubbish) period: Love On Top Of Love. Really great C&C Music Factory mix, featuring an extended and very breathy intro from Miss Jones.

This is now officially the Thread Without Ears. :D

You brought it on yourself. :D

You lot are demented cloth-eared fools. In The Air Tonight is a great pop song. As is Sussudio (and a great dancefloor mix of it by John Potoker). However... McCartney has done a stack of brilliant songs, aside from the Beatles. Oo You from his first solo album is a great bit of swamp-funk...

it's actually the b-side to temporary secretary on the 12-inch. miles better than temporary secretary, never understood what all the hoxton fuss was about. they picked the wrong side. also by macca: check my machine from the same period, also brilliant and weird. and: new musik - 24 hours...

Mmm, yes, I know what you're saying, but equally these are not normal people, are they? They would have far more experience of gay culture than an ordinary straight joe. So if they were gay, I think they would probably have come to terms a lot more readily than someone else. Not that I'm saying...

The really obvious gay producer missed out is Jamie Principle.

Aren't all the Hot Mix 5 straight? DJ Pierre is very straight, married with kids. I've met them and his missus, who sang on many of his records. I think Lidell is straight too and Steve Silk Hurley is married with kids. Ron was gay but never really made any significant records. And then there's...

Most of the people in Chicago who made records, both 'soulful' and 'dark' were straight. Who were you thinking of when you suggested otherwise (obviously there were some gay producers, but not as many as you'd imagine given its roots).

The best example I've heard of this cross-pollination is Zazou/Bikaye/CY1's Noir et Blanc on Crammed Discs. It's much better than the Masekela which, save for Don't Go Lose It, doesn't really pull off the trick. When Noir et Blanc came out it was compared to My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts which...

PS Check out From The Beginning on Trilogy. Fine bit of CSNY-style Moogy soul.

I once spent the day with U2 when I found The Edge lost outside the hotel I was working in, well before they were famous (they were promoting their first album in Switzerland). I'd seen them play the night before. I took him back to his hotel and spent the whole afternoon sat in the bar with...

Shirley Horn - Return To Paradise (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix) Seiji - Loose Lips (in fact anything by Seiji, but especially this; they re-did it with a rap last year but the original's still the simplest and best) Solid Groove - Flookin' Bugz In The Attic - Booty La La (also the Bugz cover of...

I'm not suggesting everyone on the forum is middle class (though I'd wager the majority are), but there is an argument - and I'm not saying everyone here subscribes to it - that suggests that the gritty urban sound of, say, grime, evokes black youth better than broken beat does, probably because...

It's nice to hear such opinions being voiced on this forum. I agree with you. Sure, plenty of broken beat is fusion-y twaddle, but some of it is amazing, like Seiji's Loose Lips, which is as good a record as anyone's made in the past five years. I sense a very middle class inverted snobbery...

I was listening to Who We Be by DMX last night and there's a part of the song where he says, "My wife, my kid, the life that I live; Through the night, I was his, it was right, but I did" Am I missing something or is he admitting he's had sex with a man (possibly while in prison?). Anyone else...

Ah, that doesn't surprise me. It sounds like a library record. Lot of people hunting for that now, but I don't really understand the fuss. One great French spacey tune is Love to Fly by Venus Gang. I love that, even if it does rip-off For The Love Of Money.

German space disco: Supermax - Fly With Me Methusalem - Robotism French space disco: Mellrose - Don't Want To Start Again American space disco: VIP Connection - West Coast drive

I think I prefer my angulated corridors to remain free of corruscated guitar. :D