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i have nothing to say on this but just attempting a pointless feat.

My daughter likes him. Thinks he's funny. She's 9.

Scenius applies much more to rock than rock-minded types like to believe. Beatles and Bowie both operated in a context - they were listening closely to what their peers were doing, and also stuff on the fringes that they could nick and repurpose. There's a great Bowie quote where he says...

has anyone noticed how active NASA's publicity department is these days? Not a week seems to go by where they don't flag up some new discovery about space, or planned mission, or the movements of something they've got up there i don't know if it's just that they've got a better publicity...

well yeah i agree (if i get what you're saying) it's not sped up hip hop, not in any simple way at least it uses some things hip hop used (used to use, in fact) - breakbeats - but in quite a radically different way, for rather different purposes that's why it wasn't accepted by the American...

not the omega but possibly the phi or the psi i.e. getting really near the end of any rootical flava in d&B (before its major resurgence in UKG)

if that's the alpha, then this is.... probably the iota or kappa the rap bit - "call me a star, watch me shine" - where's that from then?

yeah the Jamaican influence is really pernicious and deleterious there isn't it? ;)

Dev has a point in so far as the feel of jungle is a LONG way from any feel in hip hop of the 90s it's samples + breaks, so yes, hip hop - but the breaks are chopped up to fuck, super-propulsive yet unstable, manic and flustered in a way that hardly anyone in rap ever sounded like, except maybe...

that Tomorrow song is one of my favorite things ever - insanely exciting yes very much studio / technology deployed to make your ears boggle - the backwards guitars, the hi-hats like light-streaks, the shifting in the stereo field ..... bass moving around strangely..... and the bit at the end...

That sound on '24 Track Loop' is harmoniser - presumably the same Eventide Harmonizer as used by Tony Visconti on Low. he sold it to Bowie and Eno by claiming that "it fucks with the fabric of time". which is a bit of an exaggeration but it does all that pitchshifting / speeding up without...

Not sure if this fits your definition, but I think whatever's being done to the bass on this track - delay? - is pretty remarkable. There was nothing like this before, but also not really anything like it after.

Wow that's incredible Big Fun is one of the Miles of that era I've slept on, for some reason. Think I only have it taped on a cassette.

Another Eno one Roxy are forming around Bryan Ferry, Graham Simpson on bass, and Andy Mackay Andy M has known Eno for a couple of years (through doing John Cage-ish type events at various colleges, one of which performances Eno witnessed and they got chatting) however he hasn't seen him for...

that's a killer one, the Eno however i think it's actually three concatenated or sequential pivots - there's the accident (and him not being killed, which would open up a whole other counterfactual universe - no Remain in Light, no U2 imperial phase, no Low/Heroes/Lodger etc), but also the...

well, Dylan's motorbike accident is a classic pivot i don't really care enough about Dylan to be able to speculate, but obviously if he'd died, or been paralysed, then that would have been curtains on any later recording career on the other hand if he'd been less injured - broken neck i think...

what would Sabbath have sounded like if Tony Iommi hadn't injured his hand in the factory accident? more conventional, less heavy? seem to recall there was some contingent peculiarity to do with how Peter Hook developed his bass style - it was a really cheap, or defective instrument, and he...

the accidental meetings that led to band formations and therefore could easily have not happened, these seem the most counter-factual generative - like Sioux and Severin meeting at the Roxy concert at Wembley but others - seems fairly likely that Eno would have come across other things that...

This technically does not fit the criteria being 1979 but it's an Old Wave band - I reckon they must have been listening to some Noo Wave, maybe Talking Heads <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X7c2B2eVkZI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Remember...

i don't know about postpunk, but there is something very New Wave robo-groove about this tune, especially the verse groove rather than the chorus bit <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8f1z-nHvt3c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>