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On vaguely Oi-ish punk, my favourite line would be Police Car by Cockney Rejects: I like punk, and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham

Red London pretty much fits this description, set in Hackney with the occult bit being delivered by a fascistic cult called the Teutonic Order of Buddhist Youth (TOBY), a dig at another group of shaven headed Hackney dwellers with similar initials (TOPY).

Indeed if you look at pictures (such as these at Lewisham77), there's not a skinhead in sight. I've been doing some oral history on this, and there's a kind of false memory of the recent past where people project an image on to it based on what happened subsequently, or how the period has...

In August 1977, the National Front attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham in South East London. Local people and anti-racists from all over London and beyond mobilised to oppose them, and the NF were humiliated as their march was disrupted and banners seized. The day became known as 'The...

bit disappointed when I saw title of thread, thought it was going to be something like Burial is untrue in the sense that 'Burial' had been exposed as a front for Trevor Horn (like in the 80s when the 'rare groove' track Roadblock was found to have been put out by Stock Aitken & Waterman).

The new PJ Harvey album, White Chalk, is in this vein and very good too. There's even a bit of harp!

Good call Slothrop, I found my copy, it's a track called Mad Cat. In the film this line is spoken by the woman on the left in picture

Just been watching Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, there is a line in it which I know has been used as a sample but I can't remember where. It's 'What I see is beyond your dreaming'. Somebody help me out its doing my head in - what track uses it?

Just been reading Berlin Bromley, very entertaining account by Bertie Marshall of his days in the Bromley Contingent punk brats in 1976/77. At one point he recounts the story of getting a hairdresser to dye his hair... denim.

Early days with Heroes though, maybe the characters will develop or maybe not. After all Buffy got better over time (imho), and the original film was pretty rubbish.

Must admit I assumed he was already dead.

I haven't really been properly hooked on a TV programme since the end of Buffy, at least not in that 'this is up there with my favourite books, films, music and I have to just talk about it constantly ' sense. But having watched the first three episodes of Heroes, I am wondering is the gap...

God Made Me Funky? This is what Buddhists call mindfulness I believe, kind of total awareness in the present. I'm ambivalent about the spiritual thing in house music. When people set out to make spiritual music the result is often terrible new age slush, but there's no doubt that there is a...

Well from the unscientific sample of replies so far, while people are dancing they may be thinking about: - music and the memories/associations triggered by particular pieces; - sex - s/he's cute. does s/he fancy me? Is it significant that they're dancing next to me/looking at me. - personal...

And in a capitalist market do you really think that wage levels bear any relation to usefulness? Highly paid people in the city don't actually produce any social utility (in terms of goods or services). It is tautological to say that wages reflect 'importance', since importance in our society is...

Can we have both, oh we already have - Ciccone Youth, get into the groove.

Phillipines prison dance Yeah what's going on there? I keep expecting Spike Jonze is going to come forward and admit the Phillipines thing is a fake, like the community dance troupe in the Fatboy Slim 'Praise You' video. Assuming its real, is it a case of dancing the dream of liberation...

Well good luck to them if they can get away with it.

Well they are certainly part of the class without reserves, when Marx was writing unemployment benefit didn't really exist. The unemployed still have the conditions of their life determined by work, whether they are actually working or not, i.e. the bureaucratic apparatus they are subject to is...

obviously no sympathy needs to be wasted on rich moaners like Bruce Willis. But as for the middle class with apparently afffluent life styles a lot of this is built on sand, or at least credit. Most obviously most people don't actually own their homes - until they've paid off the mortgage it...