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Yeah, I got to it in maybe 06/07 and it was just this 'classic album' I'd heard of in the kind of lists which name checked Daydream Nation by that point.
Here’s a fact for you: Jude Rogers was in the same A-Level English class as me in Gorseinon College in 1995-6. She was much smarter than me, and made it to Oxford on straight As and like me obsessed with music. But she was a devotee of the NME, her taste narrowed into a limited but genuine love for Britpop. She once scoffed out loud at me as I entered a lesson, “it’s the return of the Mac!”
Of course, she went on to become a Guardian music writer.
Of course, she went on to become a Guardian music writer.
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36. Loski, Famlee
Burial does this thing in his later material where he takes traditionally lo-fi sounds like radio static and smoothes them off with EQ and filter sweeps. There's something about it that really gets me, like when the spoon goes through chocolate mousse and leaves a clean yet bubbled texture. It conjures up all these images and associations; smoke blown into a glass, the ghost shark, stealth bombers.
This tune doesn't have the same skip to it some of the other drill stuff does. It lumbers a bit like dubstep did, but there's a tension and release throughout which gives it a bit of a bounce and stops it being too plodding whilst also swerving some of the claustrophobia that comes with the stuff like Moscow Lightwork that never loosens its grip.
Burial does this thing in his later material where he takes traditionally lo-fi sounds like radio static and smoothes them off with EQ and filter sweeps. There's something about it that really gets me, like when the spoon goes through chocolate mousse and leaves a clean yet bubbled texture. It conjures up all these images and associations; smoke blown into a glass, the ghost shark, stealth bombers.
This tune doesn't have the same skip to it some of the other drill stuff does. It lumbers a bit like dubstep did, but there's a tension and release throughout which gives it a bit of a bounce and stops it being too plodding whilst also swerving some of the claustrophobia that comes with the stuff like Moscow Lightwork that never loosens its grip.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I think we all know who is the real winner in this story.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Just to be absolutely clear, it's Jude Rogers.
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37. Infiniti, Game One
This is the kind of thing I was getting at when I made the thread on electricity a while back. It's the sound of coursing power lines. The sound of energy. There's a caustic edge to it, a prickliness. It's just about contained, but could burn through and start spitting like a cobra at any moment. Spengler's proton stream.
This is the kind of thing I was getting at when I made the thread on electricity a while back. It's the sound of coursing power lines. The sound of energy. There's a caustic edge to it, a prickliness. It's just about contained, but could burn through and start spitting like a cobra at any moment. Spengler's proton stream.
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39. Public Image Ltd, The Order of Death
I like quite a few PiL songs, but this one's been absolutely rinsed since hearing it in Richard Stanley's Hardware a couple of years ago. The film itself wasn't great - Lemmy's cameo's so wooden it's midly amusing and there are a couple of moments - but being introduced to this more than made up for it. One of those situations where they must've known they'd struck gold. That synth/bass combo's perfection.
I like quite a few PiL songs, but this one's been absolutely rinsed since hearing it in Richard Stanley's Hardware a couple of years ago. The film itself wasn't great - Lemmy's cameo's so wooden it's midly amusing and there are a couple of moments - but being introduced to this more than made up for it. One of those situations where they must've known they'd struck gold. That synth/bass combo's perfection.
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40. Mad Mike, Hi-Tech Dreams
This one's always struck me as Mike almost going 2-step. There's a mad one on the flip called Hold My Own that's just this totally gnarled up, mangled hip-hop thing with half the sounds played backwards and what sounds like a bloke screaming in reverse too.
This one's always struck me as Mike almost going 2-step. There's a mad one on the flip called Hold My Own that's just this totally gnarled up, mangled hip-hop thing with half the sounds played backwards and what sounds like a bloke screaming in reverse too.
Yeah, she won then too, because everybody laughed and I blushed and went home to my Mark Morrison and GZA records, the loneliest (but most handsome) boy in the class.
You said that at 25!
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41. The Rolling Stones, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
One of the few British skating companies with some clout when I was a teenager was a company called Blueprint. It was nice having something like that around as the bulk of the industry was, and probably still is, American and there’s always going to be some distance there. Anyway, Blueprint put out this big, double-disc vid in the mid-’00s called Lost and Found and this was one of the songs on it. Paul Shier skated to it. I wasn’t that taken with his actual skating at the time, but loved the feel of that section and this tune so much I ended up watching it over and over.
Somewhat topical, given the ongoing protests in the US too.
The police in New York City
They chased a boy right through the park
In a case of mistaken identity
They put a bullet through his heart
Heartbreakers with your forty four
I wanna tear your world apart
You heartbreaker with your forty four
I wanna tear your world apart
One of the few British skating companies with some clout when I was a teenager was a company called Blueprint. It was nice having something like that around as the bulk of the industry was, and probably still is, American and there’s always going to be some distance there. Anyway, Blueprint put out this big, double-disc vid in the mid-’00s called Lost and Found and this was one of the songs on it. Paul Shier skated to it. I wasn’t that taken with his actual skating at the time, but loved the feel of that section and this tune so much I ended up watching it over and over.
Somewhat topical, given the ongoing protests in the US too.
The police in New York City
They chased a boy right through the park
In a case of mistaken identity
They put a bullet through his heart
Heartbreakers with your forty four
I wanna tear your world apart
You heartbreaker with your forty four
I wanna tear your world apart