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I'm thinking an album of Bucks Fizz covers by Kano, Dizzee, Lady Sov & Ms Dynamite. (Truth be told, I initially wrote 'ABBA' for 'Bucks Fizz', but scared myself into thinking it might just work)

Durrrrr :o I'll get my other coat. And leave.

Is it conceited to quote yourself? Either way, anyone who hasn't heard it already, and is interested in getting hold of it, can find it here - no doubt for a limited period only. Is good. Enjoy.

Mike Pickering. If it's possible to be very white, he was. And in fact I think he was the 'M' in M-People. To be honest, in my head, they're all white apart from Heather Small. Hang on. I seem to know waaaaay too much about this. I'll get my coat.

Sure thing. I mean, I think Naomi Klein is on to something when she says that the whole 'urban' tag was coined to sell 'black' music to white kids in middle America. But I think the real problem - and what the Guardian article studiously avoided for reasons too myriad to mention all over again...

So I think this (and other) post/s raises some interesting questions for the "Music" section of Dissensus. If music is nothing but 'organised sound', where the organising principles are predominently rhythm and melody, by what principles do Black Dice and others or their ilk qualify as...

But then, I don't recall seeing many articles bemoaning the absence of white faces in the charts during the late 90s / early 00s, when 'urban' sounds were comparitively in vogue ;)

Ummm. Am I missing something? Has anyone else heard this album? I see Boomkat describes it as brilliantly original - I'll say. With the exception of "Motorcycle", the whole album strikes me as being 40 minutes of sonic gibberish. A bit like the music made by Dan Ashcroft's flatmate in "Nathan...

Crikey, Moses... you win! "I'll see your ion drive, and raise you one hyperdrive." ;)

Beyond cool ... "The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major step forward in space propulsion capability."

I remember going into school the day after "Threads" was first aired, and all the girls in my class being huddled at the the back of the room, crying uncontrollably. That freaked me out more than anything (even tho I think I pretended to laugh at them at the time). Personally, I think I prefer...

But she does seem to have fixed her crazy shark teeth ;)

Nice trip down amnesia lane - thanks :)

Me, I'm a Flash designer/developer for an agency in London. So no jetset lifestyling for me, neither. Nice thread. Intrigued to see how many people declare themselves, and how many prefer the relative anonymity of their handle ;)

I suspect boomnoise might be on to something here. On the one hand, it's kind of unreasonable to describe the polling mechanism as a "skewing the results" - I'm not sure how else a poll of this kind could work. The top of the poll is, by definition, always going to be populated by "the few...

You mean, you went to see a movie about an ape 5 storeys tall and were expecting something entirely serious? ;) I have to say, I thought his character was by far the strongest in the film, and it's certainly refreshing to see a relatively 3-dimensional character - one that inspires totally...

It seems to me that J Dilla was the one that kept the Slum Village project together. His stuff is the bomb. There was a thread about him not long ago; and I see that he has a new record coming out next month - anyone heard it?

Do what? You're argument seems to eat itself. I can think of no better way of proving an argument's subjectivity than the inability to reach a resolution. There's no such thing as a definitive list. Surely the whole point of them is simply to spread the love :)

Merry Xmas, everybody :)

Totally agree with pretty much anything positive said above. And her version of "La Vie En Rose" always slays me (in a good way).